Don't worry. This isn't a blog entry about finding bloody weapons and dead bodies that have been piling up behind my couch as clutter. I don't mean THAT sort of "crime stuff". This is just a blog about OTHER stuff related to criminal activity.
An artist friend of mine has been doing a weekly series of drawings for ChiefMag.com (soon to be Superchief.tv). Namely, he's been illustrating bizarre crimes and incidents from police blotters. Bizarre Blotters is now in its 20th week. Check out the drawings along with links to the original stories here:http://www.grotesquerie.com/search/label/bizarre%20blotter~
I was also listening to River of Crime, the 2005 release from my favorite band, The Residents. (Some of you who know me through a certain message board, might notice that I made my avatar out of one of the pics on that page.) It was a great little project that should have been much more popular than it was. I started threads on message boards about it. I played tracks on my radio show. Not ONE person ever commented on it. The album was released by a series of podcasts called "Crimecasts", in the style of a crime drama show, not unlike the ones from the golden age of radio.
Here's how it worked. You bought the double CD set in the stores. The CDs were actually blank, but the set included a password to the riverofcrime.com website (now defunct) where you could download the weekly podcast, along with artwork, the script, etc. The idea is that once you had all of the episodes, you could then burn it yourself to the blank CDs to have a CD copy. Again, WHY such an innovative idea never really took off, I have no idea. Regardless, they eventually released a "normal" CD version.
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But speaking of crime and clutter, guess what? If you're a pack rat, then you might be able to plead "Insanity"! Check out this article about a woman charged with embezzlement. "Through testimony, cross-examination and arguments, Berry showed Clifford suffered from bipolar disorder and was hooked on eBay, often sleeping only two hours nightly and filling her home with boxes of collectibles and thousands of dollars in Goodwill clothing that made walking through the home nearly impossible." Hmm. Maybe I should stop trying to clean up my place, and get money for it.
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