Angels of Satan: Schanze finds a new edge to go over

Dell Schanze has gone over the edge only to find another edge to hang dangerously onto.

The owner of Utah's Totally Awesome Computers is one of the most famous infamous personalities of Utah. The owner of a local chain of computer stores that also sells online around the world, is well known for his ventures into Totally Awesome Guns & Range as well as Totally Awesome Flying Sports, his late-night infomercials on morality, dogs, and guns, and most of all for his annoying public persona, has finally lost it.

Most people familiar with "Super Dell" will say he lost it years ago. I beg to differ. He was missing a few marbles before, but now he's lost them all - even the bag. Just read the KSL article (see comment on KSL at bottom of blog entry!)

He closes his business because of the “angels of Satan,” also known as the Utah media.

The ultra True Believing Mormon has crossed the line from crazy wacko Mormon into fundamentalist Danite Mormon.

He believes the media is not only out to get him (they are at least out to report on him - he makes news very easily), but of the devil, murderous, and damned.

Is this not the calling card of crazed fundamentalism? It would be no surprise to see him reopen his computer business in southern Utah while sporting a big gun and a second wife. He's gone past his weird ideas on morality and ethics and into paranoia with a twist of incomprehensible babbling.

Don't get me wrong about the business. I think the business was admirable, existing as an enigma in the computer retail business. I dabbled in the same business years ago, and know it was hard to exist in the 90s, let alone the early 2000s. The guy was quirky and annoying for a reason - it was brilliant marketing. Everyone hates the man, but still looks into the company when they need a new computer. Now, though, the man has thrown off the business and entered into a reality where he is the martyr of the century. He's let his ultra-Mormonism take control of his common sense.

Expect to see him present himself as a persecuted savior to the people of Utah. Dell Schanze is becoming Jesus Christ himself.

He went well past the edge this time.

Eric