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Volkswagen: Toy Story - See Films Differently. (via...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:31:37 -0400

Volkswagen: Toy Story - See Films Differently. (via GreatFilms2007)

Oy. I love that movie, but honestly, I’ll never see it the same way again after viewing the video above.

Note that the lady with the pleasant British accent idly handles an oh-so-phallic but otherwise apparently useless microphone during her talk.

Just sayin’.

inothernews: I don’t think it. I quoth it. (via...

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:16:42 -0400

inothernews:

I don’t think it. I quoth it.

(via glamorouswhimsy)

Oh. Dear. God. I have done that. I actually have. I need to stay far away from my kids’ TV from here on out.

Stuff that hits close to home...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:02:00 -0400

I almost wrote about this for the True Crime Report [truecrimereport.com] my paying gig, but...

The Fighting Gacys The following is a heavily edited Google Chat...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:28:00 -0400

The Fighting Gacys

The following is a heavily edited Google Chat transcript regarding the lovely fellow you see above. Names have been changed to protect the… yadayada.

Rollo: Dude, I need the jpg of the psycho clown. Can you send me that?

Random Lunatic: My crazy grinning psycho clown? I actually have two, and they’re equally awful.You want the one I’ve had for a while, now?

Rollo: I think so. It’s very unsettling.

Random Lunatic: You’re going to make me guess what proper use anyone in their right mind could have for that image, aren’t you? [Remember: I’m generally not in my right mind.]

Rollo: What would anyone in their right mind want with an image like that? There are lots of twisted possibilitites.

Random Lunatic: Yeah — there are. He’s the definition of “can’t sleep — clowns will eat me.”

Rollo: Stalking and general intimidation are at the top of my list.

Random Lunatic: AWESOME. Okay. I’ll send you a few images, you can pick what you like.

Rollo: Cool. Actually, it’s rather mundane. I’m participating in the annual office ritual of fantasy football. I want the image to be my team logo.

Random Lunatic: YES. What are you going to call them?

Rollo: I’m open to suggestions.

Random Lunatic: The Fighting Gacys.

Rollo: I love that, but I’m afraid it might be a bit extreme for the office. If they understood the reference, it might make them wonder about me!

Random Lunatic: The Demonic Dahmers? You mean it might make them actually glimpse into the true dark heart of you and tremble in fear and awe, don’t you?

Rollo: Yeah, come to think of it….that would be cool. I’m now laughing my ass off at the prospect of it (in a rather sinister way).

Random Lunatic: You could also go with the straightforward, but relatively mild “Evil Clowns” or some variation on the same. A bunch of big-ass bruisers who take to the field in floppy cleats, honking horns and squirting the cheerleaders from lapel button flowers.

Rollo: Oh god, that’s twisted! I’m literally in tears now. The fighting Gacys.

Random Lunatic: Some things are so wrong, they’re almost right.

Rollo: This would be one of those.

True Crime Report

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:13:00 -0400

True Crime Report: Some people have probably noticed already that I snuck the link above in on the...

The Burbs: Breeding Grounds For Despair and Discontent

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:51:00 -0400

Warning -- Some salty language follows. Names [and locations] have been changed or redacted in the...

Substitute Special Needs Bus Driver Drops Autistic Kindergartener at Wrong Residence

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:18:00 -0400

First person reportage here, because the autistic kindergarten student is my own child, and the...

Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer : Nature News

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:41:53 -0400

Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer : Nature News: I started out in life on...

Urg.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:32:47 -0400

Sometimes, I hate being interviewed. I can be very good on my feet, talking off the top of my head....

The White House is Briefed: Phoenix About to Announce "Potential For Life" on Mars | Universe Today

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:59:50 -0400

The White House is Briefed: Phoenix About to Announce "Potential For Life" on Mars | Universe Today:...

Think Progress » One Month After 9/11, McCain Said Anthrax ‘May Have Come From Iraq,’ Warned Iraq Is ‘The Second Phase’

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:34:44 -0400

Think Progress » One Month After 9/11, McCain Said Anthrax ‘May Have Come From Iraq,’ Warned Iraq Is...

Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Choire Sicha can't tell his bearded Brits playing Wizards apart

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:14:00 -0400

Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Choire Sicha can't tell his bearded Brits playing Wizards apart:...

cvxn: soupsoup:seriouslythough:kathlellen:slippy: Twitter of...

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:41:35 -0400

cvxn:

soupsoup:seriouslythough:kathlellen:slippy:

Twitter of the day from missRFTC.

Person I don’t know FOR THE WIN.

I actually don’t like to do a lot of “re-blogging” but damn, this one was priceless.

Good Luck With Your Hell Demons: Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:15:04 -0400

Good Luck With Your Hell Demons: Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk: Earthquakes! Here where I...

This is gonna seem a little cryptic...

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:03:57 -0400

Here, I wrote about why The True Crime Weblog is on hiatus. Sorta. I still cannot say why my crime...

War: War Criminal Websites! [NOT]

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:50:00 -0400

War: War Criminal Websites! [NOT]: Nope. Sorry, Gawker, but people shouldn’t believe what...

Savage Stands by Autism Remarks - NYTimes.com

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:32:23 -0400

Savage Stands by Autism Remarks - NYTimes.com: Michael Savage recently said some ridiculous things...

Oh, yeah, [they] hired someone.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:28:00 -0400

alexbalk: This should be fun. Radar has hired Moe from Jezebel.com — another Gawker blog....

alexbalk: davidcho: Dancing Grimace Brought to you by the...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:57:50 -0400

alexbalk:

davidcho:

Dancing Grimace

Brought to you by the people who made Dancing Bear; I consider this internet video ‘The Dark Knight’ of internet videos. Yeah, that’s right, I said it. What.

Thanks to Pretty Legit, my homey Foreal, and Amir again.

Please reblog this and help make David Cho’s dream of creating a viral video sensation a reality. He asks for so little.

Done. The things I do for people I barely know and have only worked with a little. I’ve spoken with Cho on the phone before, and he was certainly likable enough for me to help him spread the viral love.

Wow. That sounded wrong.

Enjoy your Grimace.

Kennesaw magician charged with child molestation | ajc.com While...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:38:10 -0400

Kennesaw magician charged with child molestation | ajc.com

While the new project I’m involved in is in the works, I have decided I’ll post the odd true crime item here.

Like the AJC story linked above, about “Magic Jeff,” the allegedly touchy magician from Kennesaw, GA. You can see him doing “Mindreading” in the video at the top of this post.

Jeffrey Alan Wasley, who calls himself “Magic Jeff” when he does his comedy/magician thing, was arrested in Kennesaw on Thursday and accused of approaching two little boys in a department store bathroom. Wasley allegedly watched one kid take a whizz and has also been accused of yanking down the boy’s athletic shorts. He may have taken photographs of the boys, including pics of the youngest kid (age 4) at the urinal.

This is an Archive.org link to Magic Jeff’s website: MagicJeff.com. Here’s how it appeared in 2004, when Wasley called himself “Mr. Jeff,” and his show was all about “magical birthdays and more!” Wasley also promised “over 30 minutes of pure excitement!”

The less said about any of that, the better. Especially the “pure excitement” part.

Wasley, of course, was involved at one time with the youth at a local church. Naturally, if you’re in a business that tends to bring you into contact with kids on a regular basis, what’s more logical than spending lots of time with kids when you’re not working, too? Seems to make sense for a man who loves both kids and balloon knots.

When the AJC tried to reach pastors at Calvary Jesus Church in Kennesaw about the arrest of their leader of childrens’ worship for kindergarten through 5th grade, they received no response. I imagine the clergy there at Calvary Jesus is just too busy praying the whole thing away.

Of course, “Magic Jeff” Wasley had a MySpace too:

http://www.myspace.com/wowmagicjeff.

That led to his YouTube account:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MagicJeff.

The YouTube account notes that “Magic Jeff” was once associated with Six Flags/American Adventures Theme Park. Wasley was no longer employed there by October, 2007, according to the AJC.

At one time, Wasley also ran a magic shop in Kennesaw — a business that likely had a younger-than-average, male clientele.

It is certainly true that Wasley may be innocent. This is a case where the report published in the Atlanta paper leaves room to think so — the witnesses/victims were young, and their accounts might be skewed, confused.

But if “Magic Jeff” is one day found guilty of the charges, I have to wonder — did he choose his career in part based on a need he couldn’t express, something he didn’t understand? Such psychology doesn’t apply to every career choice, of course; but often when a man (and in recent years, plenty of women) is arrested for molestation, he seems to have constructed a good deal of his life around pursuits that keep him in contact with children.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — there really aren’t words to express just how rotten that particular pattern of behavior on the part of proven sexual predators truly is. I don’t like kids much outside my own children, but I still believe that there are men out there who genuinely just want to teach, mentor, even provide a father figure to kids, and that there’s nothing sick about it. But the sexual predators are ruining their lives as well, because it’s getting to the point where plenty of men will say they wouldn’t talk to a child in a mall who appeared stranded and upset for fear of being branded a perv.

And let’s put the blame where it belongs on that score — not on reactionary parents, not entirely on the media, but squarely on the shoulders of the perverts.