 | edt4 (99)
03/22/2007 |  It probably isn't funny, but I knew an elderly Italian woman who was a dyed-in-the-wool racist and kook, but had always been nice to me as a kid (she told me ghost stories that I actually believed at the time, and claimed to have known such disparate personalities as Lou Costello and Albert Anastasia, which may have been true, as her son-in-law used to work for NJ mob boss Willie Moretti). As the years passed, her family sent her to live in an elder-care apartment, as she was never easy to get along with and became more difficult the older she got. I felt a certain obligation to visit her on occasion, which wasn't always pleasant (she truly became as nutty as a fruitcake the older she got). When the Dahmer story first broke, she and I talked about it at some length, as she loved discussing anything of a "spooky" or grisly nature. Her first response was, "Who could believe it...he's such a nice lookin' boy!" When it was revealed that most of his victims were Afro-American, and that he consumed portions of their bodies, she shook her head in disgust. I always thought the disgust was motivated more by their race than the fact that Dahmer was a cannibal. Later, when Dahmer was sentenced to life imprisonment, she said, "Most of the people in prison are blacks, so it'll probably be like goin' to a bar-b-que banquet for 'im. It'll probably be like paradise for 'im." Not quite, considering it only took Dahmer a year or 2 to get himself killed. While I in no way condone violence, Dahmer's death was a prosaic form of "poetic justice", I suppose, and I can't say I shed any tears when I heard he had been killed in prison. Better for everyone involved, including himself.
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 | kamylienne (77)
03/21/2007 | Could you imagine that Iron Chef battle?
I guess I'll be safe . . . I mean, if he cooks Chinese people, does that mean he'll just be hungry an hour later, anyway?
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