My Visit to Eugene
“Eugene is a Petri dish, where the Federal Government is the bacteriologist, removing all constraints from the sample population in order to view American anarchy. Kind of like Lord of the Flies with Adults.” – Local resident outside the Wandering Goat in Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene. Flying into Portland I can’t seem to get Carolina Pi out of my mind from last week’s visit to Cairo (Illinois) . If you remember from my last posting Carolina was about to tell me about what happened to Bobby Albright, but in order to do so she had to talk about the epileptic Catholic girl Mary Anne Piano. Apparently Mary Anne had a fatal seizure where Albright left her, sans undergarments, right there in the linen closet at Manser’s place after the party and when her brother Johnny found out he took it real hard. After the funeral, like a couple days later, Johnny found Albright in the auto repair garage where Bobby worked and starting beating him with a ...