ted bundy v. dahmer - FIGHT!

"The only gay movie protagonist in recent years whom I've identified with is the titular antihero of David Jacobson's exceptional biopic Dahmer. Whether this reflects on the state of contemporary gay films or merely my own psychological shortcomings is debatable... Empathy for a cannibal is an uneasy proposition, but perhaps disgruntled gay outcasts will now discover their own twisted Jeffrey."

Whether the movie's implication of the audience outweighs the distorted 'discreet' murder scenes is somthing I haven't quite resolved.

John Waters on Dahmer: "I'd jump in his stewpot anytime!"

Killers Kleanin' Up!

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BUNDY WINS!

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This book was amazing/totally disturbing.
In one part, the author/high school kids/high school Dahmer are on a school trip to DC. Dahmer calls a White House aide and convinces him or her to let them meet and visit Walter Mondale!

I can't see that pic on my work computer, what is the book yr reading?

Sorry, it's My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf, autobio graphic novel about being a high school friend of Jeffrey Dahmer.

The author and his friend had a "Dahmer Fan Club" in which they celebrated (in a jerky high school kid kind of way) Dahmer's oddities. It's crazy seeing yearbook drawings & c. the author did sneaking Dahmer into them back in the late '70s before any of the killing happened.

whoa

Derf! Local Cleveland cartoonist hero. His strip "The City" ran in Cleveland SCENE for decades and was always amazing. And yeah, that book is great.

City still running and defs my faves comic in the local weekly. They're impossible to describe and have any of the impact translate, though. "It was a guy singing 'All Night Long' at a bus station....just trust me, it was funny."

I'm sure you know, sorry to sound like I'm trying to school you.

No worries, it's nice to know he continues to have an impact! I wonder if iatee has seen this strip, he'd be a big fan of "White Middle-Class Suburban Man."

http://www.wikiality.net/images/9/9a/Derf.City.20110606.Free_Market_Fairy.White_Middle_Class_Suburban_Man.teabagger_teaparty_crap_money_poop_believe_union_America_USA.jpg

"My Friend Dahmer" trailer dropped at Comic-Con this weekend. This looks like it's actually going to be pretty good. Maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8ajObK81A

i feel like 'based on the best-selling graphic novel by derf backderf' is going to be a confusing title card for the uninitiated

Cracked.com has an interview up today with a woman who was raped by Ted Bundy but escaped.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2547-i-was-nearly-murdered-by-world-famous-serial-killer.html

when i was growing up reading about Bundy i feel like the nature of his crimes was really downplayed in favor of the con artistry he used to lure these young women and girls, coupled with his good looks. they almost played him up like a charming strangler type. it wasn't until years later i learned about the actual depravity of his crimes, the necrophilia and torture and sadism. Not to mention the absolute staggering nature of his last murders, post-escape, this out-of-control guy just terrorizing and brutalizing an entire community of women over the course of a single month.

yeah, every now and then i end up reading one of these dudes' wikipedia entries late at night (bad idea btw) and bundy's was by far the most surreal and unbelievable one.

he was a monster, in every sense of the word

I just never made time for Dahmer, that's just too gross. And it's always the ones who do their business inside who are the most bonkers. I'm more interested in the ones who are high-functioning and out and about, like Bundy - the egomania involved is fascinating to me. For some reason, I've always had this fascination with people who dump bodies in nature. I think it's because I grew up down the street from a forest preserve and sometimes they would find bodies in there.

Thought the revive was about this new documentary (I think it's new, not just new for my area)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLJs55ghKyo

Also today is the 30th anniversary of his execution.

rip big man

I lived in FL at the time and my radio station of choice encouraged listeners to turn off all of their electric devices before they threw the switch so that there was a surplus of juice to zap him with. Not sure that's how the grid or electric chairs work but okay.

next time someone is gonna get fried try a reverse version of that experiment by wiring up a thousand kettles in series, although getting them all to boil at the same time might be a pisser!

I remember it being a big deal at the time. "Tuesday is FryDay"

this particular detail stood out to me as being vv creepy:

In the late afternoon of November 8, Bundy approached 18-year-old telephone operator Carol DaRonch at Fashion Place Mall in Murray,[126] less than a mile from the Midvale restaurant where Melissa Smith was last seen. He identified himself as "Officer Roseland" of the Murray Police Department and told DaRonch that someone had attempted to break into her car. He asked her to accompany him to the station to file a complaint. When DaRonch pointed out to Bundy that he was driving on a road that did not lead to the police station, he immediately pulled to the shoulder and attempted to handcuff her. During their struggle, he inadvertently fastened both handcuffs to the same wrist, and DaRonch was able to open the car door and escape.[127] Later that evening, Debra Jean Kent, a 17-year-old student at Viewmont High School in Bountiful, twenty miles (30 km) north of Murray, disappeared after leaving a theater production at the school to pick up her brother.[128] The school's drama teacher and a student told police that "a stranger" had asked each of them to come out to the parking lot to identify a car. Another student later saw the same man pacing in the rear of the auditorium, and the drama teacher spotted him again shortly before the end of the play.[129] Outside the auditorium, investigators found a key that unlocked the handcuffs removed from Carol DaRonch's wrist.[130]

re: omar's 'charming strangler' post
the fetishization of serial killers is really widespread and disturbing, and bundy is a textbook example of how people can turn one of the most evil people ever to walk the earth into like a romantic folk anti-hero or something... as fascinated as I am by serial killers, it really bothers me the way that they are often talked/written about. last podcast on the left always does this, I mean I know it's a comedy podcast about morbidity but they really love to make serial killers sound cool. also they rarely give victims any agency or respect when they tell stories, which really rubs me the wrong way. this is a really pervasive thing throughout serial killer media

Agreed. I always think of this individual when I read about the public fascination with serial killers.

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/killer-groupie-samantha-spiegel/

Yeah but this has been going on forever (see people wearing bundy t-shirts and misleading the police after he escaped from that colorado prison) but I think its like a mindset that comes out of being new to true crime. I'm not sure why it happens but its pretty common.

well this looks terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v38MNmDcgrM

it really does

I think it look promising. I’m excited to see it for sure.

A yahoo story I clicked past mentioned how Zac Efron “slayed them at Sundance.”

next time someone is gonna get fried try a reverse version of that experiment by wiring up a thousand kettles in series, although getting them all to boil at the same time might be a pisser!

― calzino

lol at the idea that anybody in america owns a kettle