About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Category Archives: Crime
On November 16th, 1959, Truman Capote read a New York Times article with only 300 words that would change his life, and American literature, forever. The article began: A wealthy wheat farmer, his wife and their two young children were found shot to death today in their home. They had been killed by shotgun blasts [...]
Also posted in Dimestore Philosophy, Hollywood, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, blogging, writing Tagged americana, clutter family, dick hickock, film, hemingway, herbert clutter, History, in cold blood, kansas, literature, mass killing, movies, murder, new york times, non-fiction, nyt, reviews, richard hickock, rural, thompson, true crime, truman capote, writing 2 Comments
May
14
2010
The Fear of Moving On
One of my guiltiest pleasures is my addiction to the CBS series The Mentalist. I’ve had a girlie crush on Simon Baker for 20 years, and there’s something about a smart, cynical, fun-loving, light-hearted genius crimesolver that taps into my childhood passion for Encyclopedia Brown and the Hardy Boys. (We’ll get you yet, Bugs Meany.) [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Self-Love & Self-Esteem, Society, Specifically Steff, Twitter, blogging, keeping it real, writing Tagged becoming public, big changes, changing, changing your life, coming out, going public, living out loud, making your move, moving on, mysteries, Sex, sex blogging, speaking up, stepping up, writing Leave a comment
Sep
14
2006
What Wicked Web We’re Weaving
It’s been a rough week or two in the CyberGalaxy. At one end of the connectivity cosmos, a fraud in the Emerald City, Jason Fortuny, who duped the Craigslist sex-starved masses into sending to him graphic and revealing personal emails that were then splayed accross the world wide web for mockery and exposing. Then, at [...]
Also posted in Battle of the Comments, Best of Steff, Communication, Current Events, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, blogging, censorship, internet, keeping it real, writing Tagged blogger, blogging mom, controvery, craigslist, duped, emails, emerald city, exposed, internet, jason fortuny, lonelygirl15, mommy blogger, personal, personal ads, Sex, youtube 7 Comments
Sep
11
2006
So, Here We Are Again
The whole 9/11 thing is feeling weird. Reminds me of when five years had passed since my mother’s death. Has it really been so long? Boy, was that all it was? Five years? Grief gets weird when you live with it for a long time and then — poof — it just vanishes, like. Guilt can [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Current Events, General, History, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Specifically Steff, keeping it real, writing Tagged 5 years, 5th anniversary, 9/11, after 9/11, change, grief, loss of innocence, memory, new york, nyc, pentagon, remembering, remembering 9/11, retrospective, terrorism, twin towers, when 9/11 happened, when everything changed, where i was, world trade centre Leave a comment
Tthe following lofty tome struck me as I was unable to get back to sleep with sunlight spilling through my cotton blinds. It rambles a bit, but indulge me. When I started this, the sky was filled with azure blue, birds singing, soaring, and the gorgeous sunlight I’ve been longing for. It’s an hour later, [...]
Also posted in Best of Steff, Dimestore Philosophy, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Society Tagged bc, depression, downtown east side, dreary weather, endless rain, green river killers, grey skies, moodiness, pacific northwest, rain, raining, rainy, seasonal affective disorder, serial killers, ted bundy, the pig farmer, Vancouver, west coast winters, willie pickton, winter, winter blues 13 Comments
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