Comments on: Leucotome The Musical (AKA: The Orbitoclast)

By: Swing Trading

Swing Trading — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:23:31 +0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

By: Swing Trading

Swing Trading — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:23:31 +0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

By: steve eneboe

steve eneboe — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:54:25 +0000

I think you have a great idea, I find medical treatments of the 30's through 50's fascinating, and this time in medical history is most interesting. I'm here to help in any way I can. I think we should start a Watler Freeman webgroup.

Steve

By: Alisha D Herron

Alisha D Herron — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:08:59 +0000

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now
keep it up

By: Pregnancy symptoms

Pregnancy symptoms — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:55:19 +0000

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Good luck also are happy! Give birth easily and independently! Let not doctors give birth for you, and you! Also adjust itself on chest feeding of the kid! Read the necessary information! Be, lovely pregnant mums and expecting posterities of the daddy, are healthy and wise!

By: guicharlie

guicharlie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:39:03 +0000

Please read “My Lobotomy” by Howard Dully if you haven't already.

By: Eyeteeth

Eyeteeth — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:42:30 +0000

Yes, I'm sorry I can't help you with the musical part of your musical -- I can only offer book ideas, but I have lots of those! Probably too many. I don't think you'd even have to fictionalize Walter's life too much, it was pretty crazy. It was also pretty rich in traditional dramatic themes. Honestly, reading the El-Hai biography, I am reminded of nothing so much as Milton's Paradise Lost. Freeman starts out with some really good questions about how we treat crazy people, like isn't there something better we can do than lock them in an asylum until they die? But then he gets overcome by his sense of his own importance and before you know it he's doing two-handed lobotomies to get attention. Somewhere along the way his pride overwhelms his finer feelings. And meanwhile his wife's becoming an alcoholic and he's hitting the Nembutal pretty hard himself, so where do we draw the line between sick and well?

Also, one of his kids was swept over a waterfall and died before his eyes. Drama!

Thanks for checking out my blog. It's all by one person, me -- I just use different icons as the mood strikes me. I should get a Freeman icon, I talk about him so much these days.

By the way, congratulations on the birth of your lovely daughter! You gave her a lovely name to match.

By: flowersjustin

flowersjustin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:24:46 +0000

Thank you!! – you're the first person to agree with me on this. And, thanks for letting me know about the poetry, you're right about it being a good place to start for the music.

You got my hopes up when you commented on the post. When I started reading, after I determined that it wasn't a spammy comment, I thought, “Oh my god, someone's going to offer to work on this with me!” But, it's okay, I know that it will eventually make it to the stage.

I went by your blog too – the comics are HILARIOUS!! Great posts too. I'm a little confused about the layout though – does the blog have more than one author? I ask because of the different avatars.

By: Eyeteeth

Eyeteeth — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:03:21 +0000

I think this is a fantastic idea. Freeman is one of those larger-than-life guys and I think a musical would be a great vehicle for him. Did you know he wrote terrible poetry too? You could set some of it to music, perhaps. Or someone could. I can't. But I've been drawing stick-figure comics about him and posting them on my blog: http://eyeteeth.livejournal.com/