Tuesday, August 30, 2005  How Orson Welles Saved the Siren  So
remember when the Siren said she was taking some days off to
untangle some things? She was being inauthentic with you. The
reality was, she was taking the Landmark Forum. And now she is
enrolled in a new realm of possibility. The possibility of
realizing she went to a for-profit New Age outfit, knew it was a
for-profit New Age outfit, spent the whole time realizing it and
thinking, "wow, this is a for-profit New Age outfit," and still
damn near got taken.  Several things saved her. There was her
longtime suspicion of evangelical life-changing experiences.
There was her background in business journalism, which means she
knows corporations will try anything to separate you from your
money. There was the influence of her late father, whose passion
for the English language would have had him walking out of the
room when the leader used a nonword such as "impactful" or
"ongoingly" (each time the Siren heard that second one, she
found herself hand-to-fo