Bob Dylan could soon voice sat nav systems - TelegraphBob Dylan, the legend of folk and rock music, could soon be directing drivers down Highway 61 as car giants frantically bid to sign him up as the new voice of their sat nav systems.
Bob Dylan could soon be directing drivers down Highway 61as car giants frantically bid to sign him up as the new voice of their sat nav systemsThe singer - a global superstar who has sold more than 70 million albums in a 45-year career - revealed that two major motor manufacturers had approached him to provide a audio road map commentary.
The 68-year-old is currently enjoying radio success on BBC 2 and 6 with his unique "Theme Time Radio Hour" show delivered in tone once described as "sandpaper singing".
He disclosed the offers from the sat nav firms on his radio show on BBC6 on Sunday night.
Dylan told his late-night radio audience: "I am talking to a couple of car companies about being the voice of their GPS system. I think it would be good if you are looking for directions and hear my voice saying somnething like: left at the next street, no a right - you know what? Just go straight.
"I probably shouldn't do it because which ever way I go I always end up at one place Lonely Avenue."
Dylan has been an acknowledged influence on artists from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie.
In April this year his latest album "Together Thru Life" went straight to the top of the UK album charts as well as the Billboard 200 in America.
Other celebrity voices already available as sat nav commentaries include a bossy John Cleese, a husky Kim Cattrall, the star of "Sex in the City", Homer Simpson, Alan Partridge and Mr T.
SUGGESTED DYLAN SAT NAV TOP TEN:
"Down the Highway"
"On the road again"
"Gotta Travel On"
"Lonely Avenue"
"Dirt Road Blues"
"You Wanna Ramble"
"Million Miles"
"Beyond the Horizon"
"Going to Acapulco"
"Too hot to drive"
or in a traffic jam:
"You ain't goin' nowhere"
September 1, 2009
Bob Dylan could soon voice sat nav systems - Telegraph
Michael's Foreverland - The Daily Beast
Michael's Foreverland - Page 3 - The Daily BeastMichael Jackson’s final home, as of Thursday, is even stranger than his Thriller video, sitting atop 13 stories of secret catacombs housing Satanists and gypsies. Diane Dimond tours the tomb.
There are fewer places more beautiful than Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. It’s a park-like 300 acres of rolling hills, massive trees, majestic marble statuary and soothing water features. Hubert Eaton, a devout Christian, took over an existing graveyard in the early 1900s, and designed it to mark a new and glorious beginning, rather than the end of something.
But this otherwise majestic place sits atop some dark secrets, ones that, as of this Thursday, Michael Joseph Jackson will rest upon as well. I was able to glimpse an advance peek at the King of Pop’s eternal throne, and the reality is stranger than his Thriller video, sitting atop more than a dozen floors of secret subterranean burial sections housing the remains of ancient devil worshippers and Gypsies, sacrificial fonts and crypts decorated with pentagrams and a secreted area with shelves housing at least a thousand abandoned urns containing the ashes of souls no one claimed.
My recent behind-the-scenes tour of the cemetery was conducted by a man who had worked there for several years in a job that had him into the bowels of every single building, the entire breadth of the grounds, and he knew the place like the back of his hand.
Michael Jackson will lay in repose over no fewer than 13 subterranean floors, each holding intriguing secrets. As one cemetery insider told me, ”It’s sort of the opposite of the stairway to heaven.”
“There’s Spencer Tracy’s plot -- and over here Errol Flynn’s,” says my guide, pointing to the appropriate places. After rounding a corner of one elaborate building, he motioned toward an out-of-the-way flower bed, pulled back a low hanging palm frond and said, “Hardly anyone has ever seen this.” He pointed to a plaque which read: Walter Elias Disney. Engraved underneath: “Ashes scattered in paradise.” Resting below, at the foot of a Little Mermaid statue, was a small stuffed Mickey Mouse.
Inside the mammoth Freedom Mausoleum, my guide points to a low marble bench and then up to the wall where a side-by-side crypt held the remains of Gracie Allen (1902-1964) and George Burns (1896-1996). He explains that every Tuesday for decades, Burns would sit on that bench and visit with his departed soulmate. The simple legend on their crypt reads: “Together Again.” Nat King Cole’s crypt is above and to the right.
Downstairs in this particular building, down into more marble walls holding the remains of members of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Dandridge, Clara Bow and many others, my chest tightens. It was like breathing in a heavy dose of musty mold - a rotting suffocating smell that forces staffers to leave open opposing doors so the breeze can carry at least some of the smell away. This smell of death cropped up randomly, in various buildings, throughout our excursion.
The talk of workers on the property today is of exactly where Michael Jackson will spend eternity after his final family memorial service, scheduled for Thursday at Forest Lawn’s Great Mausoleum, inside the elaborate Memorial Court of Honor. In that hall Jackson’s casket is scheduled to be staged under a stunning stained glass rendition of Leonardo da Vinci’s "Last Supper" masterpiece. It occupies one entire wall.
This location likely would have met with Michael’s approval. He once commissioned his own special Last Supper painting and for years it hung directly over his bed at Neverland Ranch. In Jackson’s version he occupies the center space where Jesus is usually seen and instead of the disciples there are some of Jackson’s heroes painted in, among them Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.
After the hoopla surrounding Jackson’s death dies down, maybe in a year or more, cemetery workers speculate that Jackson will be permanently buried in the uber-expensive “Golden Key” section of Forest Lawn, which is outlined with a prohibitively tall brick wall. Only family members in possession of a special key can enter this rarified space where the likes of Mary Pickford, Sammy Davis Jr. and Humphrey Bogart are interred. It’s a vast and lavish area of the cemetery surrounded with glittering marble statues and elaborate sarcophaguses.
But for now, sources tell me, Michael Jackson will be stored in a crypt almost directly underneath the Last Supper masterpiece.
To get to that spot my guide showed me a wide marble staircase, roped off to keep the public out, but clearly visible as going down. The first sunken level is where it’s expected Jackson will be held. Standing at the top of these stairs is like standing on the top floor of an apartment building and being able to see all the levels of staircases. It has an eerie feeling to it and, according to multiple sources, this is the route to the secret underground catacombs.
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Michael Through the Years
Michael Jackson will lay in repose over no fewer than 13 subterranean floors, each holding intriguing secrets, some could date as far back to the late 1800’s. As one cemetery insider told me, ”It’s sort of the opposite of the stairway to heaven.”When asked to confirm these areas a Forest Lawn spokesperson denied they exist.
But my sources, including another ex-Forest Lawn maintenance man and a mutual acquaintance of both employees to whom they gave contemporaneous accounts over the years, give descriptions that are rich with detail.
“There is a level where devil worshippers were once interred,” my guide tells me. “It’s complete with devil statues, pentagrams and an area where worshippers conducted weird services.”
Continuing down there is another level said to be dedicated to some of Los Angeles’ original and very wealthy industrialists and their families. They rest down behind ancient hardcore steel gates off to each side of a long main corridor. These are the departed rich who wanted to spend eternity away from the prying eyes of common citizens. Families with names like Williamson and Wilkinson and Miller. According to my sources, the Miller family, of Miller beer, has ancestors interred in these underground spaces.
Another subterranean area, according to the guide, was set aside as the final spot for wealthy gypsy families, the figurines on their crypts otherworldly, and as recently as the 1960s, my sources say, their families would stage elaborate get-togethers to honor their dead relatives.
Many doors remain padlocked deep within this labyrinth but when two workers opened one they discovered a room lined with shelves holding crematory urns for military men, police officers, nurses and city workers who were cremated gratis and held all these years because there were no families to claim them.
Both men told me when their duties required them to be in these underground spaces they often felt the eerie presence of some of the forgotten occupants.
“I’m not a supernatural, ghost-y kind of guy,” the guide told me as we continued our tour, “but more than once when I was down in those places I felt cold and clammy fingers brush against the back of my neck. I knew I was alone down there – but I wasn’t really alone, you know?”
Sounds like a real life Thriller location -- and one whose history would likely delight Michael Jackson.
Investigative journalist and syndicated columnist Diane Dimond has covered the Michael Jackson story since 1993 when she first broke the news that the King of Pop was under investigation for child molestation. She is author of the book, "Be Careful Who You Love—Inside the Michael Jackson Case." She lives in New York with her husband, broadcast journalist, Michael Schoen.
Bob Dylan Christmas Album: Song Pun Fun! - Uncut.co.uk
Bob Dylan Christmas Album: Song Pun Fun! - Uncut.co.ukBob Dylan's touted festive album is reportedly to be titled 'Christmas In The Heart' and will be released by Columbia Records in the US on October 13.
A statement from the record company says that all album royalties will be donated to the Feeding America charity, which provides meals during the holiday season. Royalties will also be shared with international charities who provide similar schemes to feed the hungry.
CEO of Feeding America Vicki Escarra explains how they got Dylan on board to help, stating: "When we reached out to Bob Dylan about becoming involved with our organization, we could never have anticipated that he would so generously donate all royalties from his forthcoming album to our cause.
"This major initiative from such a world renowned artist and cultural icon will directly benefit so many people and have a major impact on spreading awareness of the epidemic of hunger in this country and around the world."
Bob Dylan adds: "It's a tragedy that more than 35 million people in this country alone -- 12 million of those children often go to bed hungry and wake up each morning unsure of where their next meal is coming from. I join the good people of Feeding America in the hope that our efforts can bring some food security to people in need during this holiday season."
Christmas In The Heart is Dylan's 47th studio album from Bob Dylan. Song titles confirmed for the forthcoming album are "Here Comes Santa Claus", "Winter Wonderland", "Little Drummer Boy" and "Must Be Santa".With news of a possible Bob Dylan Christmas album release - we've been coming up with festive-related Dylan puns for fun.
To get you started, Uncut contributor Terry Staunton has come up with these...
A Hard Reindeer's A-Gonna Fall
Sleigh Lady Sleigh
Girl From The North Pole Country...
Eggnog Noggin' On Heaven's Door
Positively Quality Street
Decorations Row
Leopardskin Pillbox Paper HatBen Clayton
UKTogether Through TV RepeatsBeyond Here Lies Stuffin'
I dreamed I Saw Santa Augustine
Stuck With This Lousy Mobile (When I Wanted An iPhone Blues Again)
Aint Turkeyin'
All I Really Want To Do (is punch Auntie Glenda)
Gravy Let Me Swallow You Down
Blowin In The Wind (sprout remix)
Sprouts of Brownish Leather
Can I Please Crawl Out The Window?
Gonna Change My Way of Drinking
It's Alright Ma (I'm going home after Boxing Day)bruce allardiceB. Allardice, NYCJingle Them Bells
The Chimes They Are A Changing
Lay-away, Lady, Lay-awayNigel Henderson
DownSlow Sleigh ComingSlow Sleigh Coming
In the Wintertime
Snowball Bully
One more glass of gluvein (spg ?)
Wobble, Wobble
You carve your way, I'll carve mineSteve Menke
FLHere Comes Zimmy Claus(Here's the Story of the) Candy Cane
Rainy Day Wassail #12 & #35
Just Like Tiny Tim's Blues
Tangled Up in Bow
Shelter from the Sale
This Deal's on Fire
I'll Be Your Santa Baby Tonight (tribute to Eartha Kitt)Tim Borden
ILbells on Bob tail ringTangled Up in Blue Christmas
Like a Carolling Stone
If Not for Yule
Desolation Snow
The Gifts They Are Exchanging
Ballad of a Fat Man
Angelina We Have Heard On High
I Dreamed I Saw St. Nicholas
Don't Think Ice It's All White
Mr. SnowJangles
Mall Around the Watchtower
Early Morning Reindeer
Every Toy is Broken
ChristMasters of War or Mangers of War
HurriCandyCane
On A Silent Night Like This
Simple Twist of Fruit Cake
(mp3 podcast download) NEW! Wreckless 'Wreckless Radio' Eric - Radio Show (30 mins. - 31 August) Thanks @ttex for posting it, it's hard to keep up, y'know
Wreckless Radio
The Wreckless Eric Radio Show
track listings
31 August
hey! mr tambourine man - the james last orchestra
excerpt from the black 'n' white minstrel show (mercifully short)
help me girl - the james last orchestra
no opportunity necessary, no experience needed - richie havens
lord of the hornets - jnr poon
is god a man - the snivelling shits
hard-loving loser - richard & mimi farina
once bitten twice shy - ian hunter
these boots are made for walkin' - lee hazelwood
every mother's son - traffic
BEST THING SEEN! Jerry Lee Lewis - Serge Gainsbourg - Bourges, FR 1987 - Muziek & Entertainment - 123video - LOOK, I HAD TO GO TO HOLLAND TO SHOW YOU
via flickr.com*The Killer and (drunken) Incest Man play guitar backstage!
Jerry Lee Lewis | Serge Gainsbourg | Printemps de Bourges | The Killer and Incest Man play guitar backstage
*Private footage never aired (for good reason)
This is the video about that.
"If videos wore clothing, this video would wear a pink ruffled tuxedo shirt under a Leopard skin Smoking Jacket!"
Fucking Serge Gainsbourg - purified, France in 1987.
- *almost as excited as the day I found this and posted it on my last FB profile...and YouTube (both of which are gone). Today after doing research for the two new ones (directly preceding this 'outtake'), and realizing that I was missing their favorite dirty uncle (whose only relation to this private X-rated backstage pussy powwow is the coincidence of being taped from the same sweat lodge)...well, I finally found it stored away...and wrote this:
Serge Gainsbourg and Jerry Lee Lewis purified France in 1987. Mean fucking hair. The Defest jams I never saw in my life, courtesy of a Leopardskin Jacket--fucking drunken eyes, sir...fucked up.
It's about incest and backstage domestics...
and honing the guitar.
It has a pink ruffled tuxedo shirt. Serge is rared up. They offer five shots of the hands in a guild of excess and neglect nor concern with opinions and morals or society.
He was glad to see Elvis dead. He could finally rest.
The fuck-ups were happy to be together in France--all in good humor and improbable.
This video is from a French Fan Club--it has issued clear, and fucking God loves them for its public dissemination, and for its potentiality to summit the anti-legendary heroes, never before seen together, never before heard like this (dialog too real to be concantenated [Late Latin concatn
re, concat
- I want to burn in Hell indelibly in the soul of its irreverent lasciviousness. Strong and strange is its innocence, and from their mouths, dare I say it?
"Quintessence, nary more picaresque."
The relationship of these two architects of the dark side--the side of the fucking rock-roll Lethe--should be played nine hours per day in a museum somewhere between lunchtime in Paris and supper in Ferriday, where the price of admission is as padded as the upholstered velveteen cushions on which recumbent children and men over forty comingle in Roman deterioration .
I see you mouthwatering at the thought. Open it with my blessings; connect to its memory; send it to your colleagues with its subtle message impossible to pin down;
tattoo its URL to your bicep or above your butt crack;
force your wife or girlfriend to recite it from memory; commit crimes against nature in its name: illegal cunnilingus,
James Burton Shows How! Hot Lix
hummable fellatio (God-fearing citizens will be exalted in schadenfreude);
revel in its world of "every which way but louche";
thank God you're a fuck-up, and take as its gift its leopardskin coat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS2Ok3bjQz0
Happiness so small and insignificant never fails a lonely summer night.
Serendipity?
Fuck him.
*Jerry Lee Lewis | Serge Gainsbourg (1er, 2e ) Le Printemps de Bourges | 1987
http://whatgetsmehot.posterous.com/jerry-lee-lewis-serge-gainsbourg-1er-2e-le-pr
(i also hooked up the other two to the French and English Wikipedia articles on the Bourge Festival if you want to see)
o Le Printemps de Bourges est un festival de musique en France ou les jeunes talents musicaux peuvent exprimer leurs compétences sur scène. Depuis 1977, il se déroule chaque mois d'avril à Bourges (Cher).
* Il a été créé par Daniel Colling, un agent de spectacle, Alain Meilland, chanteur et comédien, et Maurice Frot, ancien collaborateur de Léo Ferré. Ce festival peinera à s'imposer aux Berruyers (habitants de Bourges), qui n'en verront l'intérêt et l'animation qu'au fil des années. Ainsi à chaque Printemps, des milliers de spectateurs viennent dans les salles et sous les chapiteaux berruyers. 80 spectacles, 200 artistes dans une douzaine de lieux sur une semaine proposent les genres musicaux les plus divers. Le Printemps s'enorgueillit de posséder aussi un festival off, véritable festival bis proposant chaque année des centaines d'artistes de rue. Bourges, c'est aussi un tremplin pour les jeunes artistes, et un ensemble d'évènements culturels de grand importance : cinéma, littérature, rencontres en tout genre.
Gmail - CRAZY PHIL MIND CONTROL LINK TRANSLATED
This topic has been heavily on my mind, especially since I moved to California in 1997. Something really strange happened to me here. I'll walk around the house, or sitting at my computer or even in the car and I'll be struck by an enormous boost of energy that passes through my head, almost hitting me out. It happened to my partner Joe, too, but never at the same time as me.
Other times, I am sitting at my computer just by typing or reading web pages, and all of a sudden I get so tired that I feel I will die if they do not fix. When I do that, I never sleep, because when I relax and close my eyes, I see a visual message or a voice that spoke to me of all he was, I was reading about.
Joe will work on his computer and suddenly become so tired, must sleep for 4 hours. It has not been able to understand either why it is, and it's a little unsettling for me because it usually comes when I want to take a turn in the car - as I am unable to see something I should not. I do not know what it could be.
I do not like the subject of mind control, but obviously it happens. We might as well be aware, because we like it or not, it happens.
Life has been really weird here.
2-15-08 - Two Saturdays later, I was struck in the back of the head while sitting at my computer with a huge force that nearly ran me down. There was nobody behind me at all. I felt really dizzy and my head hurts. My first thought was: "I had a stroke, but I had no symptoms of stroke. So I got up and took a couple of aspirins and went to bed for rest. I had no sooner closed my eyes and I could see in the astral kingdom, 3 men dressed in white shirt with long sleeves - no links - dark pants. They leaned on me as I lay on the ground and one of the men said: "FEMA wants you to clear the bases."
After having thought a bit, I decided that I would not only not clear the bases, I would spread the word and sent the fastest links out of anyone I know and at this moment, this number runs in the thousands on my e-mail lists. I also added the lists to another site in case they decide to hack mine.
Here are the files I was told to delete so you know what I mean.
DREAMING OF THE PEOPLE OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS - WHY?
UPDATED 8-26-07 - LIST OF CAMPS BY STATE
8-26-07 CONCENTRATION CAMP PLANS
The following week, Saturday at the same hour (8:30), I was struck again, as the previous week, but in this case, I had just moved my head to watch TV, and they got me with a look once.
You also might want to see this series of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
CASBOLT JAMES - LIVING IN ENGLAND - TRAINED IN THE VIDEO OF GROUP M16
NEW TECHNOLOGY - REMOTE MONITORING OF NEURONS
NEVER give up. Once we leave, they win, and we can not let them win.
I present a series of web pages and sites that might be useful that I received in an e-mail:
Here is a poll to see if you are mentally controlled at all.
If you have these symptoms, let me know.
The following symptoms are typical targets of electronic harassment mind weapons (non-electronic harassment usually goes with electronic effects):
I took this survey and I found that many of them happen to me.:
1. You find that your whole family, friendship and business relationships go sour and you did nothing to cause this problem.
2. You find that "accidental" blocking of you when you walk or drive about, by strangers, has increased dramatically and every day brings several "blocking" incidents. For example, someone slips ahead of you at the ATM or bank cash grocery, or with cars in unexpected places in parking lots. It's part of what keeps targets "street theater". THIS IS ABOUT BLOCKING * FAR * more frequent than that which occurs in Normal Life, NOT THE USUAL OCCASIONAL EVENTS.
3. Often have phones or tones or echoes, you have lots of "wrong number" calls
4. Lights go out as you pass under them, walking or driving
5. Your watch and other batteries are often discharged too early to be "natural" death
6. You find that you've suddenly woken up at exactly the same time, middle of each night
7. Featured voices in your head and you are not mentally ill
8. Ringing in the ears - may start / stop when changing or disabling electronic devices
9. Fake telephone or clock ringing or fake knocking on your door
10. Fake, bird calls, noisy, outdoors, which follow you everywhere
11. Hot needles deep in your flesh, especially when trying to sleep (also called "pits")
12. Members jerking wildly, especially when trying to sleep
13. Extremely powerful itching which may begin as small electrical shocks
14. Very relaxed while fast heart rate (not having exercised recently)
15. Very high body heat, no fever, cool relaxed, surroundings
16. Vibration, large surface area of your body, or, nearby objects which should not vibrate normally
17. Forced awakening, can not sleep, as if high doses of caffeine
18. Vivid 3-D images while awake, eyes open or closed
19. Urges to go somewhere, you do not need or at times you would not go there
20. Neighbors can see through walls, possibly by sounds from those who "follow" you
21. The repeated cases where it seems that your mind is read
22. Demonstrated repeatedly break-ins, robberies at small scale, and sabotage both at home and at work
23. Sudden "drop-you-in-your-tracks" fatigue at times you should not be tired
August 31, 2009
PHILLIP GARRIDO VAN Highlights - BOINGBOING
PHILLIP GARRIDO VAN Highlights - BOINGBOING
Top 100 highlights
Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/31/did-google-street-vi.html#more
- Weighing in on that post, an astute BB commenter noticed that if you do a Google Maps search for 1554 Walnut Avenue, Antioch, CA -- the address of the Antioch home where Garrido detained Jaycee Dugard (and her children, fathered by rape) -- you can see an overhead view of all the tents, tarps and sheds that Garrido's parole officer(s) and local police were too incompetent to bother checking, despite the fact that the guy was a convicted rapist. (3)
- (BB Video) Mighty Boosh: Live at the Roxy / Pocket Book of Boosh (pt. 4 of 4) (326)
- I think it's interesting that google street view caught pics of the scene and the van, not because of my interest in gawking at crimes, but my interest in all things interne (231)
- "..local police were too incompetent to bother checking, despite the fact that the guy was a convicted rapist." (163)
- I hope you do not find these questions disrespectful; it is of course your blog; I have been reading it for a few years now, and this isn't the first time I've wondered about this (c.f. e.g. Jim Jones coverage), so I hope you will regard this as a sincere query and not a drive-by trol (58)
- The day Xeni Jardin stops being delightfully obsessed by things like this will be a sad day for bOING bOING indeed! (127)
- Th ntl pst n ths stry ws f ntrst n tht th lw fld t d t's dty prprly nd tht ggl mps cld hv bn sd t ssss th prprty f ths crmn (35)
- If folks don't dig it, move along to the next BB post, or if it's so upsetting that you don't want to tune in, by all means don't. (191)
- Previously on BB: The blog of Philip Garrido, serial rapist and kidnapper: "sound control" gadget hallucination (20)
- People, for some reason, love to think that the police just walk around tasing people to death - but the reality of it is that there are tens of thousands of them out there following the procedures, doing their jobs, and putting themselves at risk to protect some of the most ungrateful people on the plane (244)
- Jimwich and others, I take your point that many readers may actually just enjoy the simple macabre obsession for what it is, but (running with this for a moment) surely the reactions of shock and outrage from less-macabre straight people (like me?) are part of what makes that fun? (180)
- I read about 30% of the articles on BB... many simply don't interest me, the occasional one I even find a little tasteless. (139)
- If others want to engage in that sort of analysis here, I'm totally cool with that, so long as there's no "WAAAAAH WAHHHH THIS ISN'T WONDERFUL" or "YOU SUCK FOR FINDING THIS INTERESTING." Sorry, those are magic words that earn you a can of whupass and a lack of vowels around these part (202)
- This was perhaps excessive, although I notice that particular (anonymous) comment never made it onto the website, but is still being held by approval for the moderator, who perhaps felt that anonymous criticism of your serial killer coverage was toxi (53)
- That said, it doesn't matter which way you "turn" the Googlemobile once you leave the street, the van doesn't follow you, or at least not with the permutations of potential routes I followe (238)
- I'll just say one more thing, which was that I really freaked out when reading the Jim Jones coverage and audiotape transcripts (check my comments), and Takuan stepped in with a very helpful "just look away" and a sutra for banishing demons (I still love Takuan for that (112)
- We've heard other stories about kids not getting saved from horrible environments when social services or the police failed to follow up on a solid lead but I've not read about any of that happening here. (210)
- he followed the google van because he thought it had a box that could see other peoples thought (130)
- Shortly after the vaguely-similar serial killer Fred West was discovered in the UK, I walked past his house in Gloucester. (50)
- boy oh boy, after 8 years finally make a my first comment, and it makes a secondary blurb, AND co-incidentally that day i had put on my boingboing 'bunbun' tshirt on for the first tim (29)
- (BB Video) Mighty Boosh: Live at the Roxy / Pocket Book of Boosh (pt. 4 of 4) (339)
- I think the authorities in Gloucester were wise to demolish the West's house and turn the site into a garden... perhaps this will happen here too. (204)
- @Ian, I appreciate the fact that you're a regular reader, and that you've taken the time to share the strong feelings you have about this particular pos (186)
- Sometimes you find yourself teasing apart conflicts between such values, and a little patience never hurts with those who are working their way through such issues; confusion can happen to any of us, from time to time, and I doubt that anyone is immune from such philosophical puzzles just because they know the k00l places to hang out. (286)
- I realize that would be a very boring project to undertake, at least the car counting end of i (279)
- tried to explain it to my father, who then got the impression that it was some little spycar taking photos of his property and machinery (possibly to report to the local council or tax department...?) and went to talk to the 'google man', who got scared and hooned off before dad could get to him! (262)
- Well, one of the more amazing things mentioned in all the coverage around this story has been that the sedan that the stepfather saw her get snatched into back in 1991 was found in the guy's driveway after he was arreste (44)
- This guy was a felon on parole, but he still has a decent amount of rights - and unfortunately those rights allowed him to commit these crimes. (242)
- Even mutants can freak out and it is an enlightened countercultural community that gently sets them straight rather than tearing them to bits like piranhas -- I'm glad the latter did not happen here -- thanks BB commenters for your understanding (293)
- Since when I read Reddit comment threads I always think that they are exactly what I would imagine the comment threads here *ought* to be like. (256)
- I doubt I could leave a tent up in my backyard for a week before I'd get a reminder from my city that I'm not allowed to put up permanent structures without a permit. (109)
- If the freakin' neighbors didn't know this was going on while they lived 10 feet away from it for 18 years, how would you expect the police to know? (210)
- I apologize for expressing my personal discomfort in such a muddled outpouring. (281)
- He lived with his wife in a home he owned, worked at this own business, He was a man of religion, he showed no obvious signs of illegal drugs use, and he didn't engage in gang activities. (164)
- As far as I know - having various tents in your back yard isn't considered probable cause for an investigation, convicted felon or no (241)
- I think I've said about as much as I want to say about my own subjective, internal emotional or intellectual reasons for blogging about this subject. (187)
- Pull your POV out of that driveway, moving away on Walnut toward Bown, and look backwards toward the house on Street View. (11)
- I feel that is a perfectly understandable tone for a blog pos (83)
- For those of you who choose not to use vowels in your comments I hope you realize that for every 1 of you who think its is clever or perhaps are too lazy to use words, there are many who don't read you because we are too lazy to work at dcfrng yr nnsnc (75)
- I can't be alone among the many old school fans 'n pals that constantly wonder why the comment threads here so often go off the rails. (254)
- And I would expect that a reasonable society would put a convicted kidnapper and rapist on life parol (226)
- Antinous, I believe you and I have an e-date to work on that flow chart today, anyway. (72)
- If you think that, even so, my questions are outside your notional flow-chart then yes, I probably could use a copy of that char (90)
- I think the blame here falls more on the judicial system that allowed this guy to be put back on the streets far more than law enforcement itsel (242)
- Xeni responded to my Jim Jones freakout with a rather more thoughtful comment about the public interest of her post, and I had hoped to solicit something simila (114)
- In posting a comment about my own experience (of feeling rather sleazy after checking out Fred West's place), I sought to relate to her experience (85)
- Hm. I saw the google car driving near my place one day, and actually came down the lane to our farm. (260)
- I wouldn't seek to suppress that; no-one should; I would like to emphasize and affirm my believe in that fairly critical point of internet cultur (86)
- I wonder if you will disemvowel or block my comment. (62)
- I'll make sure to report back to the world on our finding (72)
- I wonder if you will disemvowel or block my commen (68)
- As for Jimwich @44, I appreciate your efforts to defend and define a cherished space, you old-school zine-scener. (286)
- Reading about others' crimes might give such a person a little vicarious thrill, easily masked -- even to themselves -- by their righteous indignation at the heinous nature of the crim (272)
- JOHNROWLEY can control internet flame wars with his mind! (216)
- I realized this was a form of serial killer voyeurism and I immediately felt guilty. (50)
- (ps, i dont live in a tent, and he is my real father! (264)
- What is interesting about this post isn't "OMG LETS FOLLOW HIMMMMM", but that Google actually caught him by coincidence. (94)
- Thank you (and Antinous, and several commenters) for patiently explaining the flowchart and giving me space to figure out what I wanted to say in a non-offensive wa (281)
- Slightly off-topic, have you seen the shelf of science fiction that was found on the Garrido property? (118)
- Photos : Here's the Flickr set I created of the sequence within Google Maps . (18)
- Spare us your theories about how it's the downfall of western culture that some of us are fascinated by the gruesome underbelly of the world we live i (142)
- rd yr cvrg n th lst pst nd t nvr rlly cm t nythng thr thn mcbr ntrst. (41)
- So, no, that's not the "very same van" she was pulled into 18 years ag (45)
- Doctor Who Exit Interview: David Tennant + Russell T. Davies, with Richard Metzger (BB Video) (325)
- Doctor Who Exit Interview: David Tennant + Russell T. Davies, with Richard Metzger (BB Video) (338)
- A followup on this earlier BB post about the wacko blog and gadget hallucinations of kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrid (2)
- (FWIW, I think friendfeed is more interesting because real collaborative science is actually happening there, but I digress) (286)
- He did not fit a threat profile directed historically at the urban poor and minorities, so he went unnoticed as he committed his crime (164)
- Report this comment #6 posted by mdh , August 31, 2009 2:44 PM (46)
- Posted by Xeni Jardin , August 31, 2009 2:15 PM | permalink (1)
- They are supposed to assume that everyone with a tent in the backyard is a rapist? (210)
- It's also possible he just happened to be driving in the same direction as the van, at the same tim (147)
- I mean I remember hearing something about the cops coming to his house and not finding anything, but to enter his home they would need probably cause. (132)
- Long conversations about whether this post is wonderful or not are utterly boring and banal. (191)
- Could have been CNN, I read too many news sources at lunch), the police went to his property not to check on the tents, but because a neighbor had reported seeing children on the property and was a wee bit suspicious as a resul (233)
- Back in the 'zine days we used to refer to nORMALs and other distinctly unhappy mutant (254)
- Right in the 1554 Walnut Avenue driveway, you see a beat-up van with a rusty, trashed exterior, and what looks like a man behind the steering wheel. (5)
- Go go, "supercreepay", knock yourselves out on the free ice cream, and I'll shut u (101)
- thnk wht s trly crpy s yr cvrg f ths stry. (35)
- Pls drp ths stry n (41)
- Maybe I'm imagining this, and I probably need to stop obsessing about this story. (11)
- ju2tin on Howie Tsui's Asian/Western hor. (316)
- *Most* of us loyal followers share your curiosity with such subjects. (94)
- Sick? Today, that's how it's viewed, but just look at all the historical cultures in which slavery -- the total control of another human being -- was an accepted nor (271)
- Im sure you'd post that they caught your grandma on camera if that were true, als (94)
- It would be interesting to crowd source a project to count how often other vehicles appear behind the Google cam car, for how long, etc. (277)
- Y sm t hv mcbr rbbr-knckng ntrst n ths cs. (35)
- "I expect "copied" or "appropriated" are better words than "influenced by". (317)
- I won't engage further in meta-analysis about this post, though, that's boring and not where I want to spend my attention toda (201)
- Russell Letson on The pleasure of reading storie. (314)
- I was talking about and analyzing my own emotions, and asking Xeni if she could articulate hers (which she has done in the past). (174)
- The final shot, before the van veers away, is at the top of this pos (18)
- I mean obviously it would have been great if the cops stopped this guy a long time ago, but we still have to follow the rule of la (135)
- Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido? (0)
- He doesn't have many of the rights that non-felons hav (155)
- Yeah, it's a bit of Big Brother, but on the other hand, I'm relatively sure that there's no Garridos living in my 'hoo (109)
- BB is still a "personal blog" for each of us who contribute. (195)
- Here are the comments of Takuan's and Xeni's that I mentioned, from the Jonestown post. (291)
- > readers may actually just enjoy the simple macabre (248)
- Thr rsnng ws tht f th hs ws lft stndng t wld ttrct cnstnt vsts frm glsh crm trsts. (38)
i don't know how they got it to embed, if it does, but hopefully you can see the image
Psychopath stalking the Google car
Written on August 29, 2009 by Street View
A kidnapper and psychopath is following the GOOGLE CAR ! This is Philipp Garrido’s house and van:
View lager map (thanks sou)
But if you go along the street (move left from this image), Garrido go off from his house with his van, and follow the google car…