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Stuffed Trauma: On Benjamin Slinger
by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos
I hate children. All of them. They’re parasites. They suck out our calcium, they terrorize us, they eat us alive from the inside.
Benjamin Slinger makes stuffed animals. Not like Mike Kelley or Lutz Bacher — but plush toys you’d imagine in the bedrooms of the Menendez brothers. For those who spent the winter under a rock: the Menendez case is the story of Erik and Lyle, two Beverly Hills sons who shot their parents with a shotgun before going on a golden spree. Rolex watches, a house in West Hollywood, the Bel-Air Hotel, Gucci outfits — they indulged in their inheritance until they confessed everything to their therapist.
Apparently, Erik Menendez even wrote a script titled Friends, in which he narrates the murder of his parents — inspired by the 1987 film Billionaire Boys Club, where a group of wealthy young men run a Ponzi scheme and end up killing one of their investors. Netflix, via Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Dahmer, American…
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Stuffed Trauma: On Benjamin Slinger
by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos
I hate children. All of them. They’re parasites. They suck out our calcium, they terrorize us, they eat us alive from the inside.
Benjamin Slinger makes stuffed animals. Not like Mike Kelley or Lutz Bacher — but plush toys you’d imagine in the bedrooms of the Menendez brothers. For those who spent the winter under a rock: the Menendez case is the story of Erik and Lyle, two Beverly Hills sons who shot their parents with a shotgun before going on a golden spree. Rolex watches, a house in West Hollywood, the Bel-Air Hotel, Gucci outfits — they indulged in their inheritance until they confessed everything to their therapist.
Apparently, Erik Menendez even wrote a script titled Friends, in which he narrates the murder of his parents — inspired by the 1987 film Billionaire Boys Club, where a group of wealthy young men run a Ponzi scheme and end up killing one of their investors. Netflix, via Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Dahmer, American…
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