The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 03 May 2010 14:50:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 The E! Investigation: "Rich Kids Who Kill"! http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/the-e-investigation-rich-kids-who-kill http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/the-e-investigation-rich-kids-who-kill#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 14:50:03 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/the-e-investigation-rich-kids-who-kill SHE KILLS WITH HER KNIFEI've been worrying quite a bit about TV recently. There's not that much to watch? Or maybe I'm not doing my part. But the things I read in my inbox about the TV! They make me want to, like, read books. For instance, on May 12, E! will bring us "E! Investigates: Rich Kids Who Kill," an hour-long shindig about "FROM PARK AVENUE TO PRISON"! Consider yourself reassured that there is nothing exploitative about this.

But weirdly, there are two whole cases dramatized in the show. The first is of Daphne Abdela, which, hello mid-90s. (Abdela was 15 when she and her boyfriend killed someone in Central Park. But she was WHITE so it wasn't wilding! Then she ended up back in the news last year when her MAZDA got rear-ended.) You know, so, not so rich now are we, Mazda driver?

But there's more! "The one-hour episode looks at a tragic death in the small, mega-rich town of La Jolla, California. At the center of the crime were some local teenagers who got involved in a bar brawl that continued into the street. The fight left one young man dead from a ferocious punch to the head. E! Investigates untangles this complex case and demonstrates how no community, no matter how wealthy, is immune to random violence." Gosh yes, bar brawl, that does sound really complex.

I mean, this is a RICH VEIN people. Just like Mexicans in Arizona, we hear, also a surprisingly high number of rich kids like to kill. Maybe TV just isn't meeting me halfway.

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]]> SHE KILLS WITH HER KNIFEI've been worrying quite a bit about TV recently. There's not that much to watch? Or maybe I'm not doing my part. But the things I read in my inbox about the TV! They make me want to, like, read books. For instance, on May 12, E! will bring us "E! Investigates: Rich Kids Who Kill," an hour-long shindig about "FROM PARK AVENUE TO PRISON"! Consider yourself reassured that there is nothing exploitative about this.

But weirdly, there are two whole cases dramatized in the show. The first is of Daphne Abdela, which, hello mid-90s. (Abdela was 15 when she and her boyfriend killed someone in Central Park. But she was WHITE so it wasn't wilding! Then she ended up back in the news last year when her MAZDA got rear-ended.) You know, so, not so rich now are we, Mazda driver?

But there's more! "The one-hour episode looks at a tragic death in the small, mega-rich town of La Jolla, California. At the center of the crime were some local teenagers who got involved in a bar brawl that continued into the street. The fight left one young man dead from a ferocious punch to the head. E! Investigates untangles this complex case and demonstrates how no community, no matter how wealthy, is immune to random violence." Gosh yes, bar brawl, that does sound really complex.

I mean, this is a RICH VEIN people. Just like Mexicans in Arizona, we hear, also a surprisingly high number of rich kids like to kill. Maybe TV just isn't meeting me halfway.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/the-e-investigation-rich-kids-who-kill/feed 12 Rodney Alcala, Our Greatest Evil Murderer-Photographer http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/rodney-alcala-our-greatest-murderer-photographer http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/rodney-alcala-our-greatest-murderer-photographer#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:10:36 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/rodney-alcala-our-greatest-murderer-photographer 1Rodney Alcala was shuffled off to death row a few weeks ago in California, for killing five women. (He'd been on a terrible crime spree since 1972, but still managed to pack in a 1978 "Dating Game" appearance.) He also had an extensive photography collection, as any groovy, awful, murderous bachelor would-which has been now wisely released to the public, in the hopes that missing women might be identified from the photographs. And you know what? GAME OVER, Ryan McGinley, Cobrasnake, Terry Richardson, et al. Marianne Boesky or some dealer is no doubt grabbing for the rights this second. (Are there rights to be had? California no longer has a Son of Sam law, so, probably!)

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]]> 1Rodney Alcala was shuffled off to death row a few weeks ago in California, for killing five women. (He'd been on a terrible crime spree since 1972, but still managed to pack in a 1978 "Dating Game" appearance.) He also had an extensive photography collection, as any groovy, awful, murderous bachelor would-which has been now wisely released to the public, in the hopes that missing women might be identified from the photographs. And you know what? GAME OVER, Ryan McGinley, Cobrasnake, Terry Richardson, et al. Marianne Boesky or some dealer is no doubt grabbing for the rights this second. (Are there rights to be had? California no longer has a Son of Sam law, so, probably!)

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/04/rodney-alcala-our-greatest-murderer-photographer/feed 35 Wal-Mart Is Coming to New York City http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/wal-mart-is-coming-to-new-york-city http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/wal-mart-is-coming-to-new-york-city#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:40:21 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/08/wal-mart-is-coming-to-new-york-city Wal Mart Murders CommunitiesSo much for the Starbucks/Wal-Mart population divide ratio; now Wal-Mart is back in the market for a New York City store. From the department of the obviously obvious: "The retailer is likely to focus on poor neighborhoods where there is a pent-up demand for jobs and supermarkets."

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]]> Wal Mart Murders CommunitiesSo much for the Starbucks/Wal-Mart population divide ratio; now Wal-Mart is back in the market for a New York City store. From the department of the obviously obvious: "The retailer is likely to focus on poor neighborhoods where there is a pent-up demand for jobs and supermarkets."

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