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
Apr
13
2011
A Last Look at a Horrible Crime
In 2008, my brother’s closest friend from high school and his early 20s was killed in a bizarre Craigslist murder that has captured the media’s attention. Yesterday, the jury came back with a verdict of guilty. Mark Twitchell will, it seems, spend 25 to life behind bars. (Thanks, Jury.) My brother has obsessed over the [...]
Also posted in Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Society, Specifically Steff Tagged criagslist murder, edmonton, johnny altinger, mark twitchell, murder Leave a comment
Jul
27
2010
Hate Lives Here
Yesterday a local Vancouver paper asked a question on its Facebook page: “Do you think more could be done to combat homophobia?” In the ensuing comments, a White Pride freak — who I’m really fucking wanting to identify by name here but don’t feel like dealing with the legal hassle as a little blogger girl [...]
Also posted in Battle of the Comments, blogging, censorship, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Ethics, Facebook, Gay or Straight?, internet, keeping it real, Life 101, Lifestyle, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Society, Specifically Steff Tagged bad people, changing the world, fighting hate, hate, hate speech, homophobia, homophobic, prejudism, racism, reality, reality check, skinheads, what not to do, what's going on, white power, white pride 6 Comments
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 blogging, Dimestore Philosophy, Hollywood, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, 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, blogging, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, keeping it real, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Self-Love & Self-Esteem, Society, Specifically Steff, Twitter, 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, blogging, censorship, Communication, Current Events, internet, keeping it real, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, 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
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