Anyone who knows me knows that I am fascinated by serial killers. I don’t want to be one, don’t think they are great guys, I just find the psychology amazing.
BTK though…this guy doesn’t fit the traditional mold. He almost seems to have desired the public attention. From the above linked article:
Another letter to the newspaper also underscored BTK’s need for recognition.
“How about some name for me, its time: 7 down and many more to go,” it read in part. “I like the following. How about you? ‘THE B.T.K STRANGLER, ‘WICHITA STRANGLER’, ‘POETIC STRANGLER’, ‘THE BONDAGE STRANGER’ OR ‘PSYCHO’, ‘THE WICHITA HANGMAN’, ‘THE WICHITA EXECUTIONER,’ ‘THE GAROTE PHATHOM’, ‘THE ASPHYXIATER’.”
That is HIGHLY unusual. Typically serial killers may enjoy taunting the police, but looking for national attention? Highly odd.
If this does turn out to be him, I will be very interested in the studies done on him.
Weird, weird episode. Let’s see, we had Angie bowl over EVERYONE in the reward challange. Young, old, in-shape, out-of-shape…good for her. And it certainly got her head off the chopping block for the potential of boot out in this episode.
Koror found their flint, how I have no clue. After tons of effort though they got the box off the ocean floor, and hence, they now have fire.
With Ulong winning reward they got their flint and fishing equipment. So with Ulong now having fire AND food/protein you would think they would kick ass in the immunity challange. Oh my, oh my, oh my….couldn’t have been further from the truth of what happened. Where Ulong kicked Koror’s hiney from her until next week in the reward challange, Koror slaughtered Ulong for immunity.
So your tribe is going back for it’s second Tribal Council out of the first two episodes…never a good thing. It’s demoralizing, it makes your team work harder and it gets harder and harder to pull yourself out of this hole.
In the first week you always get rid of the bossy loud-mouth. (Well almost always, there was the very bizarre guy, Peter, in Marquesas who just freaked everyone out with his ramblings) You have to start looking for the weaklinks or the future threats.
This is always a tough decesion. If you get rid of the weak links you MIGHT stregthen your team. If you get rid of the popping up alliances, you make your postion in the tribe more secure. Decesions, decesions.
So this week you had the weaklinks of Ashlee, who appeared to be mentally giving up already or Kim, who did absolutely NOTHING during the immunity challange. (and was made even funnier by host Jeff Probst pointing that out repeatedly during the challange). Kim was a double danger though as she apparently has a mini-alliance forming with Jeff.
So your vote really comes down to a weakling or a weakling/alliance former, whom do you choose. Apparently you go with the weakling only, so long Ashlee.
This decesion made really no sense to me, but that is the land of Survivor for you.
My Mother and I purchased XM Radio for my Father for Christmas. At the same time I got myself the online account so I could at least listen to the music channels. All I can say is I love it. I must admit that I stay on Fungus 53, the Ska/Punk/Hardcore station 99% of the time, but man do I love it!
W00t! Firefox is over 25 million downloads! Just yesterday I uninstalled Netscape on all my machines. Mind you Netscape was my browser of choice since day 1 of being on the web. Sorry folks…Firefox has totally won me over.
Got our LLC papers for the new company today. Now, on to the business license, checking account, trademarking, manufacturing, shipping….yeesh…seems like forver until we get a product out!
So The Simpsons talked about gay marriage….what is the problem here? As far as I can see, none. No matter how you view the subject of gay marriage, the issue was handled pretty deftly I thought. The episode ran with a parental advisory and I didn’t see anything in the episode that seemed that offensive.
Enter the Parents Television Council, those self-appointed watchdogs of all things television. These are the same folks who reportedly account for around 99% of all complaints to the FCC. They take offense at everything, but quite frankly I take offense at them. Check out the quote from the article at the top:
L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Parents Television Council, criticized “The Simpsons” for addressing the issue of gay marriage, though he cautioned that he had not seen the episode.
Hold the phone…he is complaining about something he had not even seen? Wow…that takes some mighty large brass ones. He goes on to say:
“I’d rather them not do it at all,” he added. “You’ve got a show watched by millions of children. Do children need to have gay marriage thrust in their faces as an issue? Why can’t we just entertain them?”
Um…again, you had not seen the episode. There WAS a parental advisory run before the episode and during all advertisments for the show that I personally saw.
The problem I have with groups like the PTC is that in their view NO ONE should see this material. They believe they are helping parents out so that they can let their child watch any show.
And there is a fatal flaw in this country today. No one wants to take responsibility for their children. They all want society as a whole to raise their child and they want to be troubled as little as possible. When I had my retail store open I constantly had parents drop their kids off at my store while they ran their errands. They would leave the kid at our place, give them no money and they would come back in an hour or two to get them. I was turned into a free babysitting service, which I never did appreciate. Why not take the kid with you? Why not teach them how to behave in public? Why not teach them not to run around? Oh that’s right…because it would inconvenience you. Silly me.
So now parents even expect the television their kids watch to be monitored by OTHER people. Here’s a radical idea, how about instead of sheltering your kids from all these “harmful” subjects, you instead have an honest to goodness sit down talk with them and answer any questions they may have on the subject? I know, again…silly me.
Hiding a child in the closet and shielding them from subjects does not work. It makes them more curious and more apt to try or experiment with the things they think are taboo to them. I will be blunt folks, I drank WAY more alcohol when I was under 21 than I did after I turned 21. I also started smoking when I was 16 and got up to almost 2 packs a day. (I quit several years ago) Both were things that were “taboo”, and that just made me more interested in them.
Folks, I don’t want to tell you how to raise your kids, that would make me no better than the PTC if I did. All I would hope is that maybe, just maybe, we could see a swing back to the actual parents taking back over the raising of their children. Then maybe I could watch The Simpsons without all the hoopla.
Wow, an episode of the Apprentice without a name barnd product tie-in? Was Trump not feeling well?
That being said, it was an interesting challange. Each team was given $5000, a blank mobile trailer and a trailer construction crew to come up with a mobile business. Between 8 & 4 the next day they could be open, and whichever team made the most money won.
Book Smarts went with a mobile massage/spa idea after Bren was made Project Manager. Overall a decent idea, but I had my doubts about it. Stephanie made a very valid point about the massage stands you see in malls never being used, but no one seemed to want to listen to her.
Street Smarts made Tana Project Manager, and went with a suggestion of Angie’s to make a mobile casting call. Huh? You want people to pay $25 to visit with a casting director? Um…..ok.
So, gotta say neither idea impressed me, but that’s life. What were the nit-picky things though? Bren was pretty lousy as PM, but most PMs do suck. His decesion to have his 3 marketing people drive from Manhatten to Queens to deliver burgers was idiotic. You couldn’t order a pizza? No Chinese? Nah…make people drive 30 – 45 minutes to deliver ya the food! And as per usual, Michael was useless. (Although it was worth it just to have Erin make her “Michael, Mommy’s talking” comment.)
While I didn’t like Street Smarts basic idea, they did seem to have little to no problems after the hiring of the casting director. And Angie’s inability to secure a casting director was just embaressing. I believe it was Audrey who finally pulled it off.
So come task day and you really couldn’t tell what was happening on either side except for…*shock* Michael being a whiner. When all was said and done though, Street Smarts won in a $981 to $918.50 victory. (I am still trying to figure out how Street Smarts did $981 when they were charging $25 each) Since they won they were sent to spend $20K on pearls as their reward. Good for them.
In the boardroom though, Bren brought Stephanie and Michael back in with him. Stephanie for being, in his opinion, a whiner, and Michael for being a slacker. Trump didn’t take long to end mine’s and everyone elses pain. Bye-bye Michael.
If this seems a little disjointed, it is. This episode just did not grab me for some reason. Not sure why.
Yes, I am a reality tv junkie. I admit it, get over it.
So last night we were treated to the start of the 10th edition of Survivor, Survivor:Palau. It amazes me that Mark Burnett can still find new ways to twist this game. Sure, we have had the “only the clothes on your back” start before in Survivor:Pearl Islands, but it is still fun to see how that throws the contestants.
The addition of the “Immunity for the first man and woman to get to shore” though was an excellent twist. When do you jump out of the boat? Do you show how anxious you are? Do you want to piss off your fellow players this early in the game? Within seconds of these people meeting each other, already they are in the game and making decesions that will possibly effect them for the full 39 days. Fantastic.
The second twist though didn’t play itself out until day 2. Why were there 20 Survivors as opposed to the old set ups of 16 or 18? (it had always been 16 up until Survivor:All Stars). Can’t you just picture the production meeting “We will make it like picking teams in grade school, except the last two left don’t get picked, they go home!” The Survivor production crew are some nasty, nasty people sometimes. Adios Wanda and Jonathan And by the way, the man/woman immunities from the beach ONLY guaranteed them staying through tribe pick. Ouch.
So, teams are picked, and they are informed they shall all live on one beach as opposed to the usual 2. Nice…let them play off each other psychologically. Nice and nasty. Off to reward/immunity challange all in one boat. “Hey, we are about to compete against each other, but we need to work together to get there.” Again, nice little mental twist.
During the combined challenge they were to grab items such as flint, food, water and tarps. Only the items they took with them could they win, and each item was weighted down. So the question came to be, do you slow yourself down with more items, or take less so you can move faster? Nice! Make them think strategically while panicked. Koror tribe took only flint for fire while Ulong tried to take everything except for the flint. Kinda easy to figure out who won this one.
Here was the interesting thing though, notice Koror took flint, Ulong took everything but the flint. If you think about it for half a second, they were expecting to share everything! They all were living on the same beach, one had taken fire, why did they both need to take it then. Silly, silly Survivors. They of course learned AFTER the challenge they were now living on different beaches. Since Koror had won they got to choose if they would go back to the old beach, with the pre-built shelter, or go to a new beach where they would have to build. They chose the new beach and were told to set off in their own outrigger boat. Ulong would return to the old beach in their own boat and head to tribal council that night.
Now comes two classic Survivor moments. Koror has their flint, they are heading to their new home all excited…good time to capsize your boat and lose your flint you worked so hard for. Oops. They can’t find it (although somehow the camera man did) so they now have no fire, no shelter and night is coming. Guess they aren’t as bright as they thought.
And over at Ulong it is time for the traditional “Pick who gets booted first” panic. Everyone thinks the easy target is Angie, because they say they need a strong tribe. As far as I could see, the only thing Angie was guilty of was having a lot of tattos. So Jolanda gathers the votes against Angie and sets about trying to set the rules of the tribe on work ethic and such.
Jolanda, Jolanda, Jolanda. Have you never watched Survivor before? Do you not know that setting yourself up as the vote gatherer and boss this early on is like writing your own ticket home? You silly, silly woman. In a total non-suprise, Jolanda is evicted by a vote of 5 to 3, we didn’t see vote #9.
Folks, if you are going to go on Survivor, do yourself a favor….learn from others mistakes.
