Caitlín R. Kiernan

I understand: I spent my high school years in a shithole burg called Lewisville, Texas, where I was repeatedly informed by the locals that Catholics weren't actually Christians, and that that we were all in on the Vatican's plans to take over the world. (Naturally, I was rather ticked off that nobody let me in on the plan, and I left the Church because nobody was willing to give me my cut.) Of course, this was Lewisville: a few years back, I joked that about the Lewisville Erotic Film Festival consisting of "87 back-to-back screenings of Deliverance" and received the response "...so? What's the problem?"