Idiolexicon

By now, you've probably heard about the 80 highschoolers and their petulant chaperones storming out of Mike Daisey's performance in Cambridge. The walkout crossed the line between annoying and criminal when one leader poured water all over Mike's handwritten script.



Well, the school has now been identified. Delightfully enough, the school insists that the students had to leave the show due to a "security issue." Daisey has spoken with the vandal, and written about it on his blog:

I gradually opened him up by listening, and responding, the one-on-one version of what I do with an audience. We talked about many things, for almost an hour, and step by step, his story emerged.

He has three kids--one is 21, and two are 17--and he's terrified of the world. Terrified by violence, and sex, and he sees it all linked together--a horrifying world filled with darkness, pornography and filth that threatens his children, has threatened them all his life. They're older now, but he says he still sees things the same way--and that the only way to protect his children and himself is to lock it all out of his life.