Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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Finally, I came up
with the idea of good old Alberto VO5

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and just went back
to the old tempera paint.

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Powdered tempera.
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Once this--
gets gooey--

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great brown-shit-looking stuff.
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That first one's always the hardest,
isn't it?

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I could watch that for hours.
It's better than a fish tank.

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This is the fish tank of the '90s.
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This is called a "portacath",
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it's under my skin.
It's always there.

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And when I have to go on antibiotics
they access it with a needle

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into this little portacath up here.
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So I have a central line
which basically goes

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into my vein right to the heart.
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When we were in 6th grade,
I used to like--

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I don't how graphic
I'm gonna get on this--

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I would be going at it in the bedroom
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and the bed would be squeaking,
by myself.

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The door would be open
and he's sleeping in the bedroom

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across the hall.
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And suddenly I'd hear,
"Tim, I know what you're doing."

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I'm gonna tell Mom.
You better stop!"

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I don't remember that at all.
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So to me he was this moral cop.
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I know, that's what's so hysterical.
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By the time we got into
early adolescence and early puberty

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it was like, no,
he was this absolute Puritan-

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the first one
that told my parents I was doing drugs;

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the first one to, you know, to sort of
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rat on me about everything
that I was doing wrong.

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I thought that
he was just extremely religious

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and spiritual and moral.
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I felt like this decadent,
horrible human being.


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