soon to be a major motion picture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mZfwV3D5g
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colton harris moore, the movie
Add comment December 12th, 2009
We South Enders are probably the exact perfect demographic for gauging the pulse of America. We got hippie artists living back in chicken coops down here in the nettle forests and we got dot.com millionaires gating their mansions right next door. We got survivalists building houses in the ravines no building inspector’s ever seen and we got a kid living on the run back there too. The South End: home to artists and con-artists both.
Lately the rest of the nation and the world too for that matter have been tromping down to get a feel for the lay of the land here in the new Heartland of America. I took a Time reporter through the nettle hollows last week and yesterday a reporter from Wired. These were men hardened by reporting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, steeled in the forge of interviews with Warren Buffet and the poor folks whose stocks tumbled. Matt from Wired had just left Colton Harris-Moore’s mom where he’d obtained an interview for the going price of a 12 pack of ice beer and a carton of Marlboros. Nothing had really prepared him for an assignment this grim. I led him in his shell-shocked state through the haunts of our zit faced fugitive, now an international star clamoring for attention with Tiger Woods and his lady trophies, the Wilt Chamberlain of Tennis.
Colton, no doubt, lives the ascetic life of a hunted dog with rabies. His mother, understandably prideful of what her loins have wrought and her upbringing has mangled, dreams of movie rights in the six figure range. She will probably realize those murky dreams. And Tyee Store will probably make daily deliveries of ice beer and smokes to what will become a Shrine to adolescent angst on yet another of the many dead end roads that transect the South End.
Meanwhile, send the journalists, the commentators, the news crews: we are the pulse of a tabloid nation. Bring ice beer. We will all be charging soon for interviews.