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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:30 pm
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Torso by Marjorie Freeman Campbell

The Evelyn Dick case. Canada’s most gruesome and surprisingly twisted murder case full of questions, decapitation, sex, violence, and more.

I got the book, but with it I got a note from my mother that said we lived near the incident. :shock: Fortunately, the dastardly deed happened a year before I was born. Phew! :D
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach

I read this book as a teenager and loved it. I'm listening to the audio version on YT as narrated by Richard Harris.

It's an uplifting short story and you can find it here, if interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COt1n3jDqA

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A complete turnaround for the characters as they were in To Kill A Mockingbird I'm sure you'll agree. I read this fairly recently having read To Kill A Mockingbird back when I was in school some thirty odd years ago.

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Fender Strat Brat wrote:
Torso by Marjorie Freeman Campbell

The Evelyn Dick case. Canada’s most gruesome and surprisingly twisted murder case full of questions, decapitation, sex, violence, and more.

I got the book, but with it I got a note from my mother that said we lived near the incident. :shock: Fortunately, the dastardly deed happened a year before I was born. Phew! :D
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Almost sounds like a Canadian version of "The Black Dahlia Murder".

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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:15 am
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Rev J wrote:
Fender Strat Brat wrote:
Torso by Marjorie Freeman Campbell

The Evelyn Dick case. Canada’s most gruesome and surprisingly twisted murder case full of questions, decapitation, sex, violence, and more.

I got the book, but with it I got a note from my mother that said we lived near the incident. :shock: Fortunately, the dastardly deed happened a year before I was born. Phew! :D
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Almost sounds like a Canadian version of "The Black Dahlia Murder".

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Excellent comparison, Rev J. Both women were juvenile delinquents, murders and trials had similar questions, and both had books and movies still spoken of.





The strange thing is that both mysteries happened within a year!

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Fender Strat Brat wrote:
Rev J wrote:
Fender Strat Brat wrote:
Torso by Marjorie Freeman Campbell

The Evelyn Dick case. Canada’s most gruesome and surprisingly twisted murder case full of questions, decapitation, sex, violence, and more.

I got the book, but with it I got a note from my mother that said we lived near the incident. :shock: Fortunately, the dastardly deed happened a year before I was born. Phew! :D
FSB



Almost sounds like a Canadian version of "The Black Dahlia Murder".

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Rev J
Excellent comparison, Rev J. Both women were juvenile delinquents, murders and trials had similar questions, and both had books and movies still spoken of.





The strange thing is that both mysteries happened within a year!

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Have you ever read "Hollywood Babylon" by Kenneth Anger?

It's a collection of sordid stories from Hollywoods golden age. Angers Grandmother was a makeup artist during that period and used to tell him the sordid stories like they were bedtime stories.

Anger himself became a film maker and had some sordid run ins himself for example the star of this is Bobby Beausoleil:



Allegedly Charles Manson stole some of the original footage and unsuccessfully held it for ransom. Beausoleil claims that Anger spent a large amount of the films budget on cocaine and made up the Manson story to explain to his investors and that he's told the story so many times that he believes it now.

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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:06 pm
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That Kenneth Anger story is pretty interesting especially with the film history Rev’ J. I was not aware of this.

I used to enjoy reading short stories that are sometimes gruesome but, aside from some fictitious horror and mysteries, I tend to stay away from the goriness literature of the kind of which we speak. Still a good story is like a good song. It has value whether I buy it or not. So thanks. :D
I’m more into Bambi. Naw! Just kiddin’. Although, she’s okay too. :lol:
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Hollywood Babylon was more Salacious than Gory. I remember that there was a short lived Hollywood Babylon tv show when I was a teenager hosted by Tony Curtis.

I read a book about Anger years ago that talked about his connections through the years to Anton LaVey, Keith Richards, Maryanne Faithful, Jimmy Page etc. In one of his earlier films Anais Nin actually showed up.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:00 pm
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Hollywood Babylon was more Salacious than Gory. I remember that there was a short lived Hollywood Babylon tv show when I was a teenager hosted by Tony Curtis.

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I recall having briefly caught a few episodes of that short lived show, Rev’. Seems that both the book and the TV show were scandalous truths and untruths where Anger’s much criticized book was considered an art form unlike most of the similar print media of the day.

I just watched the TV show, and I can see a similarity with some of CNN’s docudramas. (sic) :lol:
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I just started an issue of "Bass Player."

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Fender Strat Brat wrote:
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Hollywood Babylon was more Salacious than Gory. I remember that there was a short lived Hollywood Babylon tv show when I was a teenager hosted by Tony Curtis.

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Rev J
I recall having briefly caught a few episodes of that short lived show, Rev’. Seems that both the book and the TV show were scandalous truths and untruths where Anger’s much criticized book was considered an art form unlike most of the similar print media of the day.

I just watched the TV show, and I can see a similarity with some of CNN’s docudramas. (sic) :lol:
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That and older episodes of Inside Edition, Hard Copy, and A Current Affair (or Sick Sad World on Daria).

I posted this in the "Funnee Videos" thread because to me it is a brilliant bit of unintentional comedy:



I've been kinda looking for funny Non Viral news stories to sample especially sensationalist stuff and classic Mass Hysteria stuff like the Satanic Panic that are just so over the top that it just comes across as amusing. That stuff is good for MF DOOM style grab a couple of lines of dialog types of stuff.

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I just read this sad article:

Peter Frampton Announces Farewell Tour, Reveals Muscle Disease Diagnosis

https://pitchfork.com/news/peter-frampt ... RJImy1P8gw

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Cash - the autobiography of John Cash. I was never really a fan but this book gives me respect for
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