The “How Can I Tell id I’m Really in Love?” PSA is Jason/Justine Bateman goldmine of cringe.

I never understood how that would’t create a huge cognitive dissonance in kids.

Metcalf’s actual daughter is playing the part.

I can only star you once, but I’m doing it as hard as I can.

My only regret is that I have but one star to give.

I’m Jewish, and the only Jewish protagonists I can think of were in holocaust novels. It’s extremely fucked up.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who dealt with ‘WTF?!’ of this by thinking “The real crime is that he filmed this in Portrait.”

“The shirt you’re describing is part of a collection of engagement and wedding shirts that are available in our women’s and plus size departments.”

Jareth: the skintight trousers that launched a thousand people into puberty.

This has been the modus operandi of Marc Warren’s career.

That’s okay; I only just realized your avatar was Patrick Mackay.

Super Mario Bros: the Movie. Starring Dennis Hopper as King Koopa and Bob Hoskins as Fire My Agent.

I have. Jesse’s story is buried under deeply uninteresting, mostly unrelated digressions about Herman Melville’s mental state, the great Boston fire, and dime novels. Having read Fiend by Harold Schechter, I was amazed at the stuff she left out in favor of the unnecessary padding. I was even more amazed when I read in…

I see someone else found Killer Legends. That’s one of my new favorites.

Nothing on Jesse, but Harold Jones was a very similar case. All the episodes of Murder Casebook series are worth watching.

Nope! At one point she’s writing about Jesse’s mother getting a canary and coming home one day to not hear it singing (Anyone who knows even a little about serial killers can where this is going...). She then writes about a completely different topic for two pages before basically going “Remember that bird? It wasn’t…

And every time parole is getting close, they manage to find something new to charge him with. One of the few times I approve of misuse of prosecutorial power.

I have, but I think the focus here is more on how’s he’s the first well known/infamous underage serial killer.

The book was equally awkward. If I had recognized Montillo’s name when I picked up The Wilderness of Ruin I would have put it right back down again. She needs a much better editor.