The Anti-Suicide Cowboy
Lately there’s been a lot of coverage of suicides in Japan; from suicide pacts to tons of people getting sick from detergent-suicides. Well, here is some happy news: Paul Touten wants to save Japan’s victims of depression, and he will dress up like a cartoon cowboy and sing songs to do it! Go Paul!
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20080528p2g00m0dm003000c.html
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…unless you’re Morrissey, who seems to find happiness in being abjectly miserable…
Seriously. I have a feeling that if the man ever accidentally cheered up, he’d suddenly begin writing polka, and every vintage Smiths t-shirt would suddenly crumble to dust.
At first I laughed at the quote, “I want to find happiness by being happy,” but….huh. That actually makes an odd sort of sense.