September 13, 2004
everything changes
The leaves are starting to change a bit and the little children are back in their educational jail cells. It smells less like summer and more like fall.
Indeed, signs point to changing seasons.
Signs also point to changing minds. At least my mind. I've determined that looking at this page is much less than visually pleasing. It is, in fact, damned ugly. I changed it from purple because I could no longer bear looking at it. Now the yellow is giving me jaundice. Things will change.
Aside from the look, though, my thoughts need some revamping. I do believe I'm suffering from the feeling that I've been snore-worthy for at least a month.
In the interest of entertaining me, BrilliantEditor bought me a copy of Globe magazine. The magazine that lives next to the register at the grocery store. This installment had a 15-page special section on serial killers.
In the interest of making me have to think less, here is some junk from the magazine.
Yummy!
It's always interesting to me how stories about extreme phenomena, things like serial killers, ghosties, haunted houses, UFOs, spontaneously burning bodies, et cetera go back decades, if not centuries, to gather up the best stories. It's also interesting that the dates are sometimes not mentioned.
I don't feel like writing their names here. That's bad juju as far as I'm concerned. The dates, however, that I could do.
By decade, here's how many, out of 19, that they profiled.
1600s: 1
1930s: 2
1940s: 1
1950s: 0
1960s: 1
1970s: 7
1980s: 2
1990s: 2
2000s: 1
no date given: 2
It's no newsflash that people are interested in weird, scary behavior like this. I read it, didn't I? And I'm totally like everybody else. It's strange, though. Are people reading because they're afraid of who might be their neighbor? If that's true, they just need to avoid an area with a high concentration of white men who were in their twenties and thirties during the seventies. What was the deal with the seventies? Were there more killers then? Did they just catch them in the seventies?
Are they reading because they want to know what the state of human affairs might be? If they want to know the current state, they might want to watch Court TV or Cops.
If they just want to know how cruel humans can be, then this is definitely the magazine to read. In fact, there's a photo taken of Keanu Reeves's seriously skeletal sister who is apparently dying of cancer while she's wearing a bathing suit that's a bit baggy and she looks old since she's so sunken.
Yeah, that's not cruel.
