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Off-Topic -- even more Coincidences - 2018
I was just reading Slayer of Innocence and adding the dates of the killings to my Book of the Dead. I took a break to get on the treadmill while watching an episode of The X Files called "2Shy;" in it Agent Scully autopsied someone who died on the same date as one of 'Freight Train' Guatney's victims. What's odd is that she rarely starts an autopsy by announcing the date of death.
I just started reading Sandra Brown's Chill Factor last night since it's one of the upcoming reads for our library's mystery book club (haven't gotten around to adding it to any of my shelves yet). I've got it sitting here next me, getting ready to read after making my usual Goodreads morning rounds, and an ad for one of her books pops up in the ads on the right side of the page. Nice reprieve from the usual ads for overly erotic romance novels that have covers with half naked men on them that I usually get stuck with lmao.
In the middle of To Kill and Kill Again and they keep mentioning WAYNE Nance's birthday, because it was October 18th and he liked to change it to Halloween. Well, I was just in a client's case checking on stuff, and I realized I had never captured the parent's signature on the treatment plan. I had to go into the scanned document to see what date she signed it.
She signed it on Nance's birthday, October 18th.
I was just searching my folders for a missing email and when I went to Deleted Items, it opened up to a message from a friend sent Nov. 2018, saying "Jessica had her baby. It's a girl and she's nearly a month old." My officemate's name is Jessica. She's on maternity leave at the moment. She had a baby girl nearly a month ago.
I had my spotify liked songs on shuffle last night. One Tin Solider came on while I was talking to a friend, and I mentioned it making me want to watch Billy Jack, even though all the Billy Jack movies leave me a sobbing wreck every time I watch them... and I can never seem to find the movies when I suddenly want to watch them (I really should just buy the DVDs). I was doing book routing at the library this morning and a bunch of movies came back from other libraries in the system... among them was the Billy Jack movie collection, which I had no idea we even had since we didn't have them a few years ago when I went looking for them.
So you're in like Flynn! Check those suckers out and watch them, STAT!
Fishface wrote: "So you're in like Flynn! Check those suckers out and watch them, STAT!"Lol, I certainly am. I have to wait until they get scanned back into the system, which they should be by the time I have to be there on Tuesday for a meeting. I'll have to snatch them up then before someone else jumps on them lol.
At 11:50 this morning I talked to one of our psychiatrists about a kid who is no longer on my caseload, saying I have no idea how he's doing since I haven't seen him in quite a while. I went straight from there to my car to pick up a salad at Wendy's, and who pulled up next to me at a stoplight but the kid's dad. We rolled down our windows and he gave me a full report. I passed it back to the psychiatrist.*shrug*
Caitlin wrote: "I had my spotify liked songs on shuffle last night. One Tin Solider came on while I was talking to a friend, and I mentioned it making me want to watch Billy Jack, even though all the Billy Jack mo..."Love that song and the Billy Jack movies. Did you know Tom Laughlin was married in real life to the woman who played Jean (Delores Taylor) in the movie and she died last year at the age of 85? Tom Laughlin died in 2013 at the age of 82.
Starting tomorrow until Sept. 19 is palindrome week. The dates all read the same backwards as forwards. 9/10/19 through 9/19/19. Also this Friday is Friday the 13th and also a full moon. For those not in the United States Friday the 13 is suppose to be a day of bad luck and crazy things happen when it is a full moon.
Koren wrote: "Also this Friday is Friday the 13th and also a full moon. For those not in the United States Friday the 13 is suppose to be a day of bad luck and crazy things happen when it is a full moon."For more details, see 13: The Story of the World's Most Notorious Superstition.
And this: https://www.bustle.com/articles/19475...
I was just adding More Than Just A Pretty Face: Can You Identify Any Of Us? Victims of Serial Killer Rodney Alcala to the TC shelves and mistyped so it said "morte than just a pretty face." Morte is the correct feminine form of the French word for "dead."And indeed they may all be.
Fishface wrote: "This:https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyle..."
That will give her something to talk about the rest of her life. It reminded me of a lady that lived at the nursing home I worked at back in the 80's. She was 88 years old on 8/8/1988 and yes, they did put it in our local newspaper. I'm sure she didnt know what time she was born as back then they were born at home, but wouldn't it be interesting if she was born at 8:08!
I just watched SOYLENT GREEN for the first time in several years and noticed something. In one scene, the main character presents his roommate with a set of books he found, the Soylent Corporation Oceanographic Survey results for the years 2015-2019. It was the date that struck me as coincidental.In its pages, the roommate learns that the earth is dying. But never mind, they're having an election soon: A bottomlessly corrupt governor is up for re-election in 2022.
It just struck me funny that all we're hearing about is the upcoming election on the news lately, and...
In the Decidedly Creepy Department, I just posted a link here yesterday about California serial killer Donald Miller, commenting that he was the second SK I know of by that name. There's another one from East Lansing, Michigan. All by itself -- as rare as SKs are -- that is really bucking the odds. Well, sir, in memory of Ric Ocasek, last night I watched the only movie I own that has him in it, HAIRSPRAY. I was struck when the director, John Waters, walked onto the screen because he is a dead ringer for the East Lansing Don Miller.
And just now I was at Pinterest looking for Rex begonias and up popped one called "Don Miller"!!!
"Don Miller"
Fishface wrote: "I just watched SOYLENT GREEN for the first time in several years and noticed something. In one scene, the main character presents his roommate with a set of books he found, the Soylent Corporation ..."Wasn't Soylent Green from the 70's? Seems like I remember seeing it at a drive-in movie theater way back then. Reminds me of George Orwell's 1984, where some things seem to have come true today.
I think the movie came out in the early 1970s, yes.
This morning I was transported with joy because my Persian Carpet Flower (Edithcolea grandis) has its very first-ever flower bud. I've had the plant for 3 years and I was starting to think it would never happen.So today the front desk girl emailed me to say I got a package in the mail. What was inside? A begonia called "Persian Brocade."
All day I have had the strongest feeling that I am not going to meet with my last appointment tonight and that, furthermore, I'm never going to see that kid again.Well, the phone just rang. "This is it," I thought. Sure enough -- although tonight's appt isn't cancelled -- it was the kid's mom, and tonight is going to be the last time I ever see her.
Fishface wrote: "I think the movie came out in the early 1970s, yes."Soylent Green came out in 1973 and was based on a 1966 novel called Make Room! Make Room!.
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Was at weekly trivia game and one question was about an HBO show, "Succession", I never heard of this show, the next day walking home I see an ad for it on a bus.
Broke my arm, the ortho doctor is affiliated with Mt Sinai, his office is in a Mt Sinai building. Had an appointment Wednesday morning. That afternoon see an alert, there is a fire in basement of Mt Sinai hospital.
Come clean, Bel. Did you break your arm while setting the fire?
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Uh-huh, that's about what I thought. Tsk!
Just wanted to add that now that I've hooked one of my co-workers on TC, I managed a double whammy by referring her to read And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder, which combines the issues of autism, substance dependence and CRIME, plus a link to the rebuttal in the form of the video Who Killed Nancy?
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Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "I love fire, it’s so … prettty .........."Me, too! And I KNOW I'm not the only one who has made a grilled-cheese sandwich on a shovel in the burning hollow of a stump in the middle of a wildfire! Right?
Right?
K.A. wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "I love fire, it’s so … prettty .........."Me, too! And I KNOW I'm not the only one who has made a grilled-cheese sandwich on a shovel in the burning hollow of a stump in th..."
Well.....
K.A. wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "I love fire, it’s so … prettty .........."Me, too! And I KNOW I'm not the only one who has made a grilled-cheese sandwich on a shovel in the burning hollow of a stump in th..."
Um...actually, Kathy...
I just got through reading Out of the Silence: After the Crash -- Eduardo Strauch's memoir of surviving that plane crash in the Andes -- and that book is full of coincidences. One that really struck me: the rugby-team captain, Marcelo Perez, lost heart and his stamina started to fail after they heard on the radio that the search for their missing plane was being called off. He exactly died four years after his father did -- to the minute!
I now have a growing list of serial killer names occupied by more than one SK. There is a SK named Don Miller in Michigan, and another in California.
There are 2 serial killers named Richard Ramirez.
There are 2 multiple murderers -- one a terrorist, one a standard-issue SK -- named Bruce Davis.
In another coincidence, I can only scare up photos of 1 killer from each pair:
Don Miller
Bruce Davis
Rick Ramirez
My Halloween read, Legion, brought an unexpected TC coincidence. The movie version (Exorcist 3, Jeff Dahmer's favorite) never mentions a lot of the names in this book. It turns out that one of the witnesses to the decapitation of the priest is George Paterno. An elderly coach from Georgetown. Out of curiosity I looked up the name and it turns out the notorious Joe Paterno has a brother George. Not a coach, like Joe, but a sportscaster.
So.., in this fiction book, "Legion", there is a character, George Paterno, who witnesses the decapitation of a priest, and this guy, George Paterno, shares his name with... Joe Paterno's actual brother? And the fictional guy... is a coach at a university? Or do I have all this completely wrong?
You have it exactly right. I look back at some of my coincidences and I don't explain some of them very well at all. I'm glad this one got through.It's enough to make me wonder whether Jerry Sandusky ever decapitated a priest.
Yeah, one wonders.Or, maybe this Blatty guy is kind of a... clumsy fortune teller who gets stuff wrong...
Reading Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street it contains an in-depth history of the 50's and 60's childrens show Captain Kangaroo. Also reading The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue the father is described as having a Captain Kangaroo haircut. I'm thinking anyone born after around 1980 probably doesn't know what a Captain Kangaroo haircut is!
Last night, Halloween, I started reading Carlitos Páez: AFTER THE TENTH DAY. I learned a couple of pages in that he was born on October 31st. Halloween.Just now (on the Day of the Dead) I got an e-mail from Mary Phillips. After reading that I pulled up a Net page looking for information on Craig Price and that led me to a page about a guy I never heard of before, Jack Harold Jones. It was linked to an article saying he was executed for the murder of Mary Phillips! Look here if you don't believe me: https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/s...
Today I added Harry Houdini's death to the TC anniversaries discussion. A smart aleck killed him with a sucker punch that ruptured something inside.Well, just now I was looking at the news and found a story about some kids who filmed themselves sucker-punching a 13-year-old kid they'd apparently been bullying for a while. He died:
https://ktla.com/2019/11/01/teens-acc...
Fishface wrote: "Today I added Harry Houdini's death to the TC anniversaries discussion. A smart aleck killed him with a sucker punch that ruptured something inside.Well, just now I was looking at the news and fo..."
That's not a term you hear every day.
Started to read The Keillor Reader by Garrison Keillor. Keillor is a Minnesota native and I have seen him in person twice. On the first page of the book is a copy of the first acceptance letter he received from The New Yorker Magazine for his work. The letter is dated 1970 and Keillors address says 222 30th Ave. North in St. Cloud, Minnesota. In 1970 my husband was living at 215 19th Ave. North in St. Cloud. Just think they were only 11 blocks apart and didnt know each other!
This morning a co-worker announced excitedly that someone we all knew had been fired. She can't read worth a damn despite her multiple college degrees and managed to mispronounce the name as "rivet." The fired person's name is not anything like Rivet. Well, I was adding TC anniversaries today and one was the murder of Lord Lucan's nanny, a Miss Rivett.
I bit of a coincidence, I thought, to read this today (Nov. 10) in my current book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street: On November 10, 1969 Sesame Street finally debuted, A triumph of brain chemistry and electromagnetic physics. Happy 50th Birthday Sesame Street!
Well here's one! I saw in my news magazine that a Hollywood producer known for unimportant little films like CHINATOWN and ROSEMARY'S BABY just died. It mentioned in his obit that his girlfriend, a coke dealer, once killed one of his investors, a man named Roy Radin. I looked to see whether there was a book on the case and Wikipedia informed me that Radin died on November 13th. Today is November 13th!And we already have the book on our shelves: Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood, and the Cotton Club Murder.
Reading Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir by Lorna Luft (Judy Garland's daughter) yesterday, Nov. 22, the 56th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, when I came across Lorna's account of the assassination. She was in elementary school but had met JFK and his family when her family was vacationing in Hyannis Port so it hit pretty hard.
Not really a coincidence...it's a common name...but just starting If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen and the name of the doctor is the same name as my youngest son. Made me smile!
Is the doctor the good guy or the bad guy?
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Yeah, this pops up now and again on Pinterest. It raises all kinds of questions and answers exactly none of them.