Epeolatrix

I think Barney is a composite of two agents, Judson Ray and John Glover. Ray is the one whose wife tried to kill him.

He was masturbating while performing autoerotic asphyxiation, dressed in lingerie and wearing a mask. (The link goes to the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition.)

Yes, a trend that's been on the rise for quite some time now. There's a good article on MarketWatch about this.

Keanu Reeves as a violent and abusive husband in The Gift (2000).

There's also a follow-up called "Remembrances of the Angels: 50th Anniversary Reminiscences of the Fire No One Can Forget" by John Kuenster and a memoir of a girl who'd survived with horrible burns called "The Fire That Will Not Die" by Michele McBride. Lastly, if you are interested in the boy that set the fire, there's a book that has discussion of his case called "No Disposable Kids" by Larry Brendtro. All of these are well worth reading. I was working on a LARP character background, so I went on a research binge...

I just started "The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter", the new book by Mark Olshaker & John Douglas. It's about the specifics of the interview and profiling process, with an in-depth focus on four cases (Joseph McGowan, Joseph Kondro, Donald Harvey, and Todd Kohlhepp). I'm finding it interesting so far in large part because these cases don't get talked about very much.

I dumped a modern urban fantasy series when the protagonist was given an actual guardian angel for a girlfriend. Until that point, it was a fairly enjoyable story about a paramedic who gets roped into caring for the supernatural community of his city. When the series started, it was lots of EMS detail and that's why I was reading it. Then he got the angel girlfriend, and two books down the line his daughter from the future shows up for... I don't even know, but I'm done.

Steve Hodel has written six books about his dad who is both the Black Dahlia Killer and The Zodiac.

Amelia died peacefully, though suddenly, in her sleep in 2013. Pizzolato said (on Instagram) that a lot of stuff was cut from the finale for time, and this is one of the things that went. He also revealed that Hays and Amelia, after their talk at the bar in the 1990 timeline actually lived happily for almost two decades. "After some private security work, he went on to become Chief of Security at the University, where she had become the writing professor," he wrote. He added, "They never divorced. They had a happy 23 years after 1990".

I am reminded of the British performer Derren Brown and the séance episode he performed on Channel 4. He just used regular magician tricks and yet the students attending the séance freaked out. He also did one on professional psychics in the Messiah episode, if you're interested.

On a related note, I'd like to recommend a similar short series called "That'll Teach 'Em", which is available on YouTube. It focuses entirely on recreating grammar school of the 1950s.

I am mixed, so I'm pretty well informed not only on how this trope can play out in real life, but also how TV leans hard on the melodramatic possibilities. And when you have a story sufficiently removed from truth that it's labeled "inspired by", anything can happen with regard to the characters. When I wrote my initial post, the trailer was what we had to go on, and it looked pretty cheesy to me. Now that I have seen the first episode, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, but we haven't gotten to the Dahlia stuff yet.

There's not nearly enough evidence of any kind to support the George Hodel allegation and I hate tragic mulatto stories. I will probably end up watching anyway so I can complain about specifics instead of just the stuff I see in the trailer.

My reason for liking it might be your reason for hating it. The best option for finding out if you're likely to enjoy a movie or not ahead of time is to find specific voices you trust or that agree with you on other movies.

Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies, Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange by Adam Scovell, and A Green and Pagan Land: Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television by David Huckvale. I have film event coming up for which I need to do a lot of reading.

This is a great site / tag if you're interested in the Fauna Hodel story. Larry Harnisch has been researching and writing about the Black Dahlia case for a long time, and he is one of the more reliable people to do so.

German Baroque composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumble-meyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. And "French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft". Listening to them mangle languages with excellent pronunciation was especially fun for me in high school because I was studying French and German at the time.

I have learned from my futile efforts to engage people over on the "What Are You Reading?" topic, so I'm just going to post here from now on. I LOVE non-fiction! I hope other people also start posting, because I don't want to camp here like a blogger, but mostly because I want leads on cool new books. Today's book is one I received for Christmas called "The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London" by Christopher Skaife. I've been following him on Twitter, so I was happy to see that he has a book. For those who don't know him or his job, Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife is in charge of the safety and well-being of the ravens that 'protect' the Tower of London. Legend has it that if the ravens were to leave the Tower, "the Crown will fall and Britain with it". While it's not my dream job (which would be 'petting baby animals'), it's still very cool and I like the informative yet still fun style of his writing.

What was the eye-rolling diversity?

I've got four of the tall Billy cases against every wall that can have them, and then short ones under the windows (also the desk is under a window). Now that I look at what's on the short shelves more carefully, though, I think one of those can go and the cabinet could go in its place. I just need a magazine archive box and to get rid of things that need getting rid of. Still no room for a chair, but that's not as necessary as cabinet anyway. I think I can even manage this and still keep some wall space! Thanks for helping me think out loud. I finally have an idea how to do this.

I have a library, but there's no room for a chair. Bookshelves on every wall except for one corner which is where my desk is. I'm trying to figure out a way to rearrange things, because I also need a cabinet for curiosities. Right now I have a couple of short Ikea bookcases the tops of which are covered with the curiosities and I'm getting new weird things faster than I'm getting space for them. What I want is "Victorian Naturalist's Library" or even "Gothic Beatrix Potter". What I have is more like "Miskatonic University dorm room", minus a bed.

I just learned of this group called The HU. Their style is described as Mongolian folk-metal and I know nothing else about them. They only have two songs released at the moment, so here is a link to the video for one of them, Wolf Totem. I don't normally listen to metal so I can't attest to how metal this is, but the song is very stompy and I play it way too often.

Coming in a year late because I just discovered this topic right after binging interior design shows on Netflix. In the PNW (depends on where, I suppose), I think you could make mid-century modern work if you just added a few decorating elements that specifically recalled the World's Fair of 1962. That would help anchor your design to Seattle's history, and that would go a long way toward making it seem like it belonged here.

This is how she says it (within the first three seconds of this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihrbjCiUOM

I think they've already acknowledged things like the Macdonald triad in the show, making it clear that it obviously takes more than just absent fathers. The point I was making was that the issue of absent fathers was put in the forefront of Tench's mind by virtue of his work, which might have been the prompt to make him more involved in his son's life. As to autism = serial killer, based on what people have written, the concern was "will the show write his son to be a potential serial killer" and other people reassuring by saying "no, more likely they are writing him to be autistic".