I think the dismembered girl story is just using a renamed real-life crime from historical Los Angeles to demonstrate true evil in the paradise of the so-called City of Angels (victim Marion Parker, 1927). Frank as an outgrowth of Magda probably knows all the details of the case because it was Magda who encouraged the…

What happened to the astronaut: he got so incredibly freaked out about going into space that he had a complete mental breakdown, had to be pulled kicking and screaming from the capsule, and was sent to a mental hospital for military personnel. Blatty wrote another book called “The Ninth Configuration”, also about…

It’s also close to the name of Regan’s father (Howard), which helped give the early impression that it was all psychological and she was just troubled by her parents’ divorce that was underway at the time.

Angela Bassett played Betty Shabazz (wife of Malcolm X) in Malcolm X and Panther.

Correction: Re-read pertinent parts of book and realized that she was just his girlfriend. They talked about getting married so that she couldn’t testify against him, but didn’t go through with it.

I have the book his wife wrote and she comes off as having no real empathy or compassion, compares Bundy’s murders with her getting drunk, and sums up the entire thing with “The tragedy is that this warm and loving man is driven to kill.”

The easiest way to do this is to mix the olive oil with whatever scented oil you think indicates a holy presence, and then chill it until it turns solid. In the morning when the church is empty, daub the solidified oil in the statue’s eyesockets. As the church fills and services begin, the overall heat in the room…

I love the conceit of playing an actor playing a role, both in Late Show and Hong Kong Action Theatre. The meta-game is often as much fun as the actual story.

The few times I’ve cried at work, the nature of the work itself was the problem and my managers were entirely sympathetic. One told me to take more frequent and longer breaks and another helped me move to another team that would be psychologically safer. Talking about the issues was much better than trying to tough it…

I suspect many of the stars come from locals who don’t want more people to move here; it’s a longstanding tradition to hype our worst qualities. Not that the complaints are unwarranted, of course.

You can also read “When Books Went to War: the Stories That Helped Us Win World War 2” by Molly Manning. It’s a somewhat recent release and it’s still in print. It’s not just about the format, though, it’s also about the books that were available.

When I saw it in the theater, it was pre-release enough that there was no publicity, so I thought it was going to be an annoying romantic comedy until the phone call. Wow, the mood whiplash on that one...

I have been using TunnelBear with no issues.

Could be that it was meant to be St Martin de Porres...

I made a screensaver of my favorite “Obamas With Babies/Children” photos, and the accompanying music will be my 2008 inaugural mix tape. It ends on a hopeful note with the ‘Yes We Can’ remix by Tano Sokolow. Does it change anything? No, but it will cheer me up a bit.

Another word for breasts used at that time was “dugs” (from Scandinavian words for ‘to suckle’). I suspect people got playful with pronunciation until it was “ducks” and more affectionately “duckies”.

So happy! No more fibroids and no more periods, plus it was at least 2 pounds by itself...

My surgeon was amused by my love of all things gross and medical, so she got someone on her team to take a lovely picture of my cantaloupe-sized fibroids + uterus being removed. Alas, the photo and scar are my only souvenirs.

No, that’s why we should stick to library science and not computer science when it comes to sorting books.

Sephora has it online at the moment as part of some UD retro thing. I don’t think it’s only at Sephora, but that’s where I saw it.