click to enlargeA few papers cited important similarities between the film Old Boy and the behaviour of the Virginia Tech psychopath: ranting about vengeance, posing with a hammer, the fact that he used film to try to justify his deeds - implanting himself in an alternate (revenge film genre) reality where his actions might be seen as something less than delusional. I thought that was stoopid racist reporting based on the guy's ethnicity (he's Korean, as is the film)...
Until the creatures of Chicago's Lincoln Park were exposed to a screening of twelve monkeys and decided to rule the earth in place of humans! Look at the size of that ape! It's as big as a bus. Crime is caused by movies!
I caught the effect on digital sensor during the weekend I spent in town. A day strolling through the place taking snaps after Cinco de Mayo drinking (celebrating all things mexico, including the cultural avant guardists at Corona) was plenty pleasant.
It's an odd city - go two blocks from the 'magnificent mile', where the John Hancock building (complete with batman ear radio towers) is situated, and you wind up in the projects, as I did trying to find my way onto the El, the largely overstreet train. The contrast in wealth is stark. At least, income inequality was stark before the speciesist revolutions. Now every citizen of Chicago is equal, reduced to scrubbing their leathery overlords, which is why I left. Here is a picture of a rhino completing his shopping in front of the aforementioned JH building.
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