A few things, as I feel I’ve been neglecting you:
1. Les wrote an amazing, wonderful post about visiting her dad in Nashville. Les is amazing, wonderful in general. But you should read it.
2. I am super into my book right now. It’s called ‘A Death in Belmont’ by Sebastian Junger and get a load of this: When Sebastian and his cheekbones were one, his mom hired some folks to build an artists’ studio in their backyard. There’s even a photo of the builders posing in the studio with baby Sebastian. And one of the builders was…ALBERT DESALVO THE BOSTON STRANGLER. Now, some debate whether or not DeSalvo was actually the Boston Strangler. I myself do not. One day, Sebastian’s mom discovered DeSalvo in her basement. She stood at the top of the stairs as he motioned her to come down, claiming something was wrong with her washing machine. Um, you’re supposed to be building a studio in the backyard, Al. Mrs. Junger told him to forget it and shut the door. Gasp!
3. The Elizabeth Smart trial began yesterday. Let’s all stay tuned, shall we.
4. Along these morbid lines, Leonardo DiCaprio will star as serial killer H.H. Holmes in the movie version of the book, ‘The Devil in the White City’ which I now need to read. H.H. Holmes was interestingly insane. You might want to check him out.5. I think Weekend What’s Up may have died. I know. I’m not that heartbroken about it either. But Necessary Conversation is doing all kinds of new and exciting things (reporting from the field!) and I’m roping Beth H. into new and exciting video ideas I want to pitch to the Appeal. (Oh yeah, hey Eve. Beth and I want to occasionally make our own videos and we want you to post them, please.)
6. I do not know which election night parties I’m going to. Because I don’t know who’s won. However, I think the ladies and I are meeting at a la-ti-da bar to watch the early returns and then we should all coordinate via Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn (that was a joke, relax) about which parties are rocking or sucking. Yes, let’s.
7. I could spend a week in a (fabulously appointed) log cabin in the woods by myself, wearing buffalo plaid pajamas and wool socks, reading my true crime books and harnessing my fucking chi right now. FYI…
4 comments:
most campaigns are going to be at the Great American Music Hall (leland yee, sf democrats, sf labor, fiona ma, etc) and then there are the supervisors parties (boring) and so on. scott weiner and yes on G are at Harveys in the castro.
I think the biggest party will be the one Gavin's got to throw tomorrow - win or lose - at City Hall.
oh, thanks for reminding me to read A Death in Belmont, I think it sounds fascinating. I agree that you need to read The Devil in the White City, it seems like you'd like it. It's weird though, it mixes in a lot of architecture/design history with the serial killer story and social history aspect.
Another book that I love that you might like, even though it's not technically a serial killer story but just a historical murder, is The Murder of Helen Jewett.
RE: #5
Can the Necessary Conversation audio engineer turn up the mic volume a wee bit more still? Or is there a new microphone fund to which one can donate?
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