June 20, 2007
Things that make me happy this morning
-- The rain, the drowsy morning feel in the West Village streets
-- Allison in her sleep mask
-- The French press, the smell of coffee, grey morning
-- an email from Keith involving a desert island (where he and I have created a new civilization, apparently), him offering to row ("I'll row") while I read my high school journals to him. Or something along those lines. It made me laugh out loud. What?? You'll row? While I read to you Diary Friday? It sounds like heaven.
-- an email from Allison, raving on about a show about a satanic cult she saw after I left. We love shows about killers, evil teenagers, rampaging serial killers, and anything involving bloodshed, forensic evidence, and DNA results. Anyway, her email to me just now goes like this:
As soon as you left, i went to my cue of shows that saved last night and delightedly stumbled across this: MSNBC Investigates: A self-described leader of a vampire cult murders a couple in Florida. He's a teenager who recruits from among the outcasts at his school and convinces them that he's a thousand-year-old vampire who only just woke up after a lengthy slumber....so he starts a "coven." they go into the woods and cut themselves and each other and have all these creepy blood letting rituals. When the parents of one of his female "fleglings" prohibit her from hanging around him, he kills them and drinks their blood ... A great way to start the day.
Can I hear an amen?
-- And finally, this. Looking at this, I honestly feel that I have never been so happy. I'm a raw nerve anyway, these days, but this has pushed me right over the edge.
They definitely should be white. I am in total agreement with you there.
But still.
rowr
Posted by: red at June 20, 2007 12:54 PMSoooo you like forensics eh?
If you have cable and get the Discovery Health Channel...keep a look out for a case study show that features various forensic specialists. I dont know how often he shows up, but the professor who taught me everything I know about how therapeutic glueing human skeletal remains together sometimes shows up. His name is Dr. David Glassman. I dont know if he is still at Texas State university, but when he was there back in the latter half of the 80s, I spent a GOOD many hours in the Phys Anth lab gluing bones together. The man was a TRIP - an erstwhile hippie who could tell you some wild stories about working with monkeys and some of the cases he worked on in the Coroner's office in Virginia. Death by plastic bag figures into one of those cases, a favorite he told our classes. He was also the one who helped be the first from Texas state to do a directed study in coordination with the Witte Museum in San Antonio...
Reason I know this is that I was visiting my parents and they had that channel on and when I was flipping through the channels, there was my prof on one of those shows. Wish I could remember which one it was...
Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at June 20, 2007 11:37 PMI totally and spiritually get it.
Posted by: Alex at June 21, 2007 2:27 PMAlex - ack, I miss you. Shit. Missing you right now!!
Posted by: red at June 21, 2007 2:31 PM