An oddball and I practice civic friendship
Two bang-average but worthwhile true crime docs:
Deadnorth (Tubi), set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula;
Lover, Stalker, Killer (Netflix), set in Omaha and its environs.
I watched one right after the other, knowing little about either. There was considerable thematic overlap. The true crime genre is, if nothing else, extremely useful as a catalog of behavioral red flags.
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Samuel went to the lake with grandparents, grandaunts, granduncles, and second cousins (an inexact tally). He came home this afternoon, sunburnt.
With just Daniel in tow, Karin & I went out for gyros. As we were finishing our meal, a nerdy, headset-clad man one table over, who’d been talking into his phone all lunch long, asked me to look after his food while he ran out to his truck. I nodded. His truck was a semi. I watched through the restaurant window while he fumbled around in the cab. Then he brought out a cigarette and smoked it outside the restaurant.
Finally, he returned to the bits of onion and tomato on his plate.
He grinned and thanked me. I nodded again.
My good deed for the day.
Deadnorth (Tubi), set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula;
Lover, Stalker, Killer (Netflix), set in Omaha and its environs.
I watched one right after the other, knowing little about either. There was considerable thematic overlap. The true crime genre is, if nothing else, extremely useful as a catalog of behavioral red flags.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Samuel went to the lake with grandparents, grandaunts, granduncles, and second cousins (an inexact tally). He came home this afternoon, sunburnt.
With just Daniel in tow, Karin & I went out for gyros. As we were finishing our meal, a nerdy, headset-clad man one table over, who’d been talking into his phone all lunch long, asked me to look after his food while he ran out to his truck. I nodded. His truck was a semi. I watched through the restaurant window while he fumbled around in the cab. Then he brought out a cigarette and smoked it outside the restaurant.
Finally, he returned to the bits of onion and tomato on his plate.
He grinned and thanked me. I nodded again.
My good deed for the day.