Or: When is the world just going to end, already?
[via Ted Leo's Twitter]
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Two days after the murder of Julissa Brisman, the New York escort that died last Tuesday in Boston, a Las Vegas woman was tied up and robbed at gunpoint by a man who had answered an ad she posted on Craigslist. This happened in Warwick, Rhode Island, just a few highway exits outside of Providence.
Today the Warwick Police announced that they’ve arrested someone for the robbery, and that his description matches that of the Boston killer. They’ve released a few pictures but, like the pictures from the Boston hotel cameras, they’re not really much to go by. I hope many things–I hope they’ve arrested the right person, that the killer will never again be allowed near women, that these crimes don’t give any other fuckwads any ideas about abusing sex workers–but, you know, those thoughts are obvious and probably not worth repeating.
[via Audacia Ray's Twitter]
People are really into this Susan Boyle thing, huh? She has over a million Facebook fans, including half the people I know, ranging from my raging party friends to my fourteen-year old cousin. People like her. (I first heard about her on the feminist blogs, oddly, though even the gay porn ones are really into her.)
Anyway. It’s nice and all. What’s also nice, speaking of inspirational things we can pick up from reality television, is Linda Andrews, who last month won Denmark’s X Factor. In addition to having a very nice voice–which she does–she’s a) thirty-five and b) curvy. Imagine that ever happening in the US. Behold, as Linda sings Natasha Bedingfield’s stupidly likable Unwritten:
(X Factor is basically an Idol show, but it’s sort of complicated because people have mentors and individuals compete against groups. Or something. All I know is the groups were all very, very bad and the bald judge is kind of foxy.)
I like to sometimes watch Idol shows from other countries, because I like to watch people sing and because people everywhere else are so much less inclined to sing stupid Bryan Adams songs than Americans are. After the jump, other highlights from the season:
