Merry Christmas
Sex videos, naked people, dirty Santa and a snow penis
I'm gone a week and the world goes to hell. What ever happened to wholesome holiday stories? Pumpkin pies and snowflaked skies and rasmuffins and tidy greetings?
Kelley has a PR guy pitching sex videos, the Florida Times-Union's Thomas Lake is curious about a nearby nudist resort, John "The Snake" Doherty tracks the history of a snow penis (classic headline), and Ramsey finds the victim of a dirty, dirty Santa.
Completely unrelated: Check out Wright Thompson in River Ridge, Louisiana. "Surrounded by students and teachers, Badeaux handed over servings of his jambalaya. Damn. The recipe was passed down from his father, and it reeked of fan boats and Mamou whiskey parties. It tasted like Louisiana, which, given the devastation the state’s suffered since Hurricane Katrina hit, was a triumph."
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ben on 12/18/05 at
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Re: Merry Christmas
Nice pick on the Wright Thompson piece. I've been reading Wright for a couple years, and he's amazing. You might want to check out his story on Ernest Blackwell, a failed football player who went on a violent rampage in his neighborhood.
I can't figure out how to make the url below a link, but it's worth the hassle of pasting it into your browser.
The paramedics injected him with a sedative, and, after about 10 hellacious minutes, Blackwell was put onto a stretcher in the middle of the street, four cops sitting on top of him.
His chest, heaving a minute before, settled. He calmed, his rage gone. No one knew it then, but the big man was dying. Even months later, no one knows exactly what killed him. They do know that 29 years of anger spilled out into one August afternoon, and when it was done, Ernest Blackwell didn't have enough life left inside to keep on living.
http://www.gonderzone.org/Kansas%20City%20Star%20%2012-05-2004%20%20On%20an%20August%20day,%20a%20'ticking%20bomb'%20exploded.htm
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