Manson

Charles Manson died yesterday.

I recently read Jeff Guinn’s biography, which is quite an amazing book. It’s still hard to understand how Manson, an untalented and unattractive minor thug, was not only briefly able to ingratiate himself with some LA music elites but was able to persuade a significant group of people to provide him with sexual services and/or unpaid labor, but I guess as with many things of the era you had to be there.