John Mark Karr (it's the curse of the three name thing; Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman, John Wilkes Booth -- uh oh, wait a minute, starting to sound like Mel Gibson, better dial it down a bit... Okay:)
Anyway, many people are getting all worked up about John Karr, the guy who confessed - maybe - to the Jon Benet Ramsey murder, getting fried shrimp and champagne while flying back from Thailand to the US. I happen to think that Karr isn't the guy, that he's either running from something in Thailand and needed to get out of the country poste haste and was broke, or he's getting an enormous high out of the notoriety, either way you could have counted me in the group of people who think that Karr should've been brought back in the US in different circumstances... Like muzzled and in a dog crate, rather than business class.
But there might be a method to this apparent madness. The AP has a story with quite a few criminal justice types praising the maneuver, believing it's meant to get Karr talking - while he's not technically in custody and without the challenges posed be Miranda.
Either way, soon enough we'll have DNA evidence either ruling him out or in. Even short of being the person who killed young Ms. Ramsey, Karr seems like a dangerous and broken person. And frankly, either way, I think Karr would look good in a nice little crate, packed up and put away somewhere dark and quiet for a long time.
Now, bring on the meme!
His Grace, Avitable, was kind enough to tag me. Think of this as a "holy day of obligation" kind of thing..
(That just cracks me up. The fact that he looks scaringly like Brother-In-Law#3 just puts it over the top...)
4 jobs I've had:
1. G-Man... Kinda sorta. Well, in that I work for the gum'mint. I very rarely get to shoot people though (which is okay, the paperwork's a real bitch)
2. Souless, godless, Public Relations Flack.
3. Junior Assistant Minister of Skulldrudgery and Dirty Tricks, US Senate campaign.
4. Bartender
4 movies I could watch over and over:
1. So I Married an Axe Murderer (and I do, every Valentines Day)
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
4. Highlander
4 places I have lived:
1. Boringtown, MA
2. Pleasantville, MA
3. That's it...
4. Nowhere else...
TV shows I love to watch:
1. ER
2. Boston Legal
3. NFL (Your Three-time World Champion New England Patriots)
4. Lost
4 places I have been on vacation (last four):
1. Washington, DC
2.Hersheyy, PA
3. Orlando, FL
4. Salem, MA
4 websites I visit daily:
1. Lileks
2. The Daily Canon, over there on the left
3. Slate
4. Boston.com
4 fave foods:
1. Lobster
2. The Bomb pizza: everything, including anchovies...
3. Chinese
4. Chicken Mole
4 places I'd like to be right now:
1. In bed (it's 1:54am, for goodness sakes...)
2. In Kate Hudson's bed (see, I told you that guy Chris was a bum Kate... And you really think Owen Wilson's any better? Give me a break...)
3. In the White House.
4. Nowhere else in the world.
9 comments:
Wow, thanks for pointing out the hassels of the paperwork. And to think I was this close to shooting someone today!
Oh, and Boston Legal rocks!
I look like an in-law? That is scary!
HM: yeah, it's one of those fill-out-the-forms in triplicate thing. Takes at least 25 minutes. And most of the people you'd like to cap aren't worth that sort of time...
Av: Spitting image. Plus similar senses of humor. I had to ask him if he'd been blogging under an assumed name and identity...
Huh, never thought of the Karr thing that way...though I do hope it's him, at least that way there is closure on it for the family.
Kal's right, Av - you DO look like BIL#3. He's a sweetie, too...
I'm glad you mentioned Highlander, Kal. I can't imagine any movie list of yours ever not having Highlander on it somewhere. I still get tears in my eyes whenever I hear that Queen song...how many times have you seen it now? I think you saw it about 40 or so befoe you left home!
I had someone else tell me I looked like their BIL. It's bizarre.
DeepDiscountDVD is having a sale on Box Sets of DVDs - Buy 1, get 1 free. I just bought all 6 seasons of Highlander! I'm very excited. Adrian Paul kicks Chris Lambert's ass anyday.
Av, C'mon - that look Lambert gives the cop when he's being questioned "why, you looking for a piece of ass?" - classic... And it's not easy for a Frenchman to play a Scot.
(and the movie had the Scot playing the Egyptian, go figure).
That whole think about Karr just gives me the oogies. My first reaction was that he didn't do it. He just seemed entirely too happy to admit to it. Then when I found out he did a research paper on it, and was in contact with the reporter, it just seemed like he's a freak and wants to be a part of the whole thing.
Still think he needs to be locked up somewhere, though. Creeeeeeepy.
Love the Highlander movie. The series was okay, but the movie was totally a classic. Lots of eye candy for the girlies. *drool*
what? i can't get more than pretzels on the plane, and he's eating shrimp? wtf?
i thought all criminals were transported in the way depicted in "con-air"....or would "airplane" be a better point of reference?
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