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Sharps - 2005-05-02 13:43:29
Thoughts on the Runaway Bride story: 1. Crime rates continue to fall, but made-up crime reports appear to be skyrocketing. At this rate, it is inevitable that fake crime will outstrip real crimes. Which I would object to, being bad for business. Except of course that making up a crime IS itself a crime, so I wonder what that means. 2. In every picture I've seen of the woman, she looks certifiably insane. Surely, they saw this coming, at least to some degree. 3. The woman hopped a bus to Albuquerque, where she didn't know a soul. What is it with Albuquerque? My grandmother, the staunch Democrat, who lived the last 70 years in Dallas, was so mortified by the JFK assasination that for years she told people that she was from Albuquerque instead of Dallas. And of course, Albuquerque is where Bugs Bunny always makes a wrong turn on the way to Pismo Beach. Why Albuquerque? In Bugs' case - OK, I understand, it's funny when he says "Al - bu - coy - kee" but I don't think those people in Georgia, who lost their deposit (600! ouch!) are laughing. And certainly nobody is laughing about Dallas '63. 4. Oh yes, a woman taking a bus to Albuquerque is NOT NEWS, dammit!
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I wombat - 2005-05-02 14:25:02
I heard the same number from a different source, but ya never know, different souce? same source? who's to say? and this says "I wombat", but I might actually be Sharps! I went to a web site today, because I was curious what I would find, they were pretending to be Earthlink, my web server, but the real address that showed up was some eastern bloc locale, I decided to cancel, before it really loaded. I'm just gonna think about Bugs Bunny now.
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I wombat - 2005-05-02 14:57:27
Oh I forgot to say what I was gonna say, yeah 600, that's a bad sign, if there are 600 people coming to your wedding and you are not the queen of England, it's outa control, better bolt.
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Sue - 2005-05-02 15:05:10
I have been to a couple weddings where the guest list was in the hundreds. In both cases, a lot of the guests were business associates of the father. I believe the Runaway Bride's family was socially prominent in the area where she lived, so I doubt all 600 folks were close, personal friends. One good thing about having a big wedding: you get TONS of swag.
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Chris - 2005-05-02 15:53:00
I was once invited to a wedding with 600 people. I didnt bother to go, but told the groom (someone I work with) I was there and how wonderful it was. 600 people is easy to hide behind.
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2fs - 2005-05-02 16:02:33
First, let me just say, courtesy the track now playing on iTunes: Roxy Music rules. Anyway. The whole giganto-wedding thing bugs me. That people massively indebt themselves for what would seem, at its heart, an intimate ceremony just sorta annoys me. It becomes, of course, about something entirely other than the couple's feelings for one another. (Someone who married in the presence of four friends, and put that off for nine years, *would* say something like that, wouldn't he.) But then, historically marriage is all about the political/familial alignment blah-blah-blah. I like cookies.
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Paula - 2005-05-02 16:08:03
See, I don't see weddings as being about the bride and groom alone--it's about giving hope and good vibes to your people. It's about Joy and Love and Feasting on the Carcass of Life.
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Baby Party - 2005-05-03 10:37:14
I am annoyed by the media's continued fascination with the runaway bride story, and a little surprised at the vindictive tone of the coverage. I understand that she wasted valuable law enforcement resources, and that she didn't handle the situation the way mature adult should; but watching the news, I get the impression many people really want her head on a platter! I have to stop and remind myself sometimes that she didn't actually abduct or kill anyone, but you wouldn't know it from the gloating interviews with cops about "possible criminal charges..." I suspect that if she had been a homegirl from the hood, or a trailer park denizen, with some tiny little wedding planned down at the VFW Hall, we would never have heard about this at all, and the cops would have assumed she just ran off. But she's a upper-middle class white girl, with a giganto guest list, and everyone was worried that she might be dead! Like that adorable Lacie Peterson! And so everyone got all het up about it, and now they're pissed that they wasted all that worrying. My gut feeling, by the way, is that 600 people, and 28 attendants, might mean you've let your wedding get a little out of control.
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2fs - 2005-05-04 10:06:37
BP: Don't be too upset at the vindictive tone: Ms. Wilbanks will do just fine. Already she's picked up a few hundred bucks' worth of swag from the authorities, not to mention a free flight (see the article Paula linked), and I'm sure TV appearances, a book deal, maybe even a movie adaptation are in the works if she wants 'em. I agree w/your gut feeling - but the fact is, lots of time and money were spent that could have been directed at actual crime - and Wilbanks ought to be held responsible for those resources. I don't think jail makes any sense...but having her reimburse the law enforcement personnel? Makes sense to me.
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Sharps - 2005-05-05 13:56:57
NY POST columnist Andrea Peyser led off a Page 1 piece yesterday with this charming headline: "Women from Wilbanks' part of the south who are unmarried at age 32 are either insane, in jail, or gay." I ask you all, what is this story really about? Does the enmity come from "she wasted resources" or "How dare she disobey societal doctrine!" The more I see of this story, the more I support Wilkins and the more disgusted I am with the mass media hysteria/obssession with her.
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Paula - 2005-05-05 14:37:23
Cary Tennis did a good, if slightly jokey, job of defending her in Salon today.
People just love getting upset and villifying other people. It is as close to a cathartic human sacrifice as they can get, and keeps them safe from pondering the causes of their own unhappiness. Burn that witch! That'll solve everything!
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Tim W. - 2005-05-06 03:26:56
Hey, don't be dissing T. Dream. Okay, so they turned into hopeless newage (rhymes with sewage), but their 70s stuff introduced me to electronic music, got me through high school, and for the most part holds up quite well today.
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Paula - 2005-05-06 08:16:11
Rest assured, Tim, my TDream dis was strictly visual! I even like some of their, um, "bad" albums.
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Tim W. - 2005-05-06 23:23:06
Got it. They're ugly mothers for sure.
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