JOBU'S LOCKER: Holiday Highlights

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Holiday Highlights

One of our Pit Stops. It was just so sudden! Before I knew it my bladder was empty, my tank was full and I was zipping down the freeway at 75 mph.

My niece studying for her entrance exams at Hazelden U

Christmas Day brunch at a truck stop. Its a tradition.

I came home for this crap? GOSH!

My nieces excelling at being teenagers.

Road Warrior.

No she is not smiling. She always looks like that when I'm driving. Its borderline hysteria.

That was one hell of a New Years party.

1 comment:

DeloresJanuary 23, 2011 at 6:24 AM
LOVE the pics - ah, reliving the Holidays - Enjoy 2011!~It's -18 here this a.m. I believe we can call it chilly!
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On July 26, 1984, Ed Gein, a serial killer infamous for skinning human corpses, dies of complications from cancer in a Wisconsin prison at age 77. Gein served as the inspiration for writer Robert Bloch’s character Norman Bates in the 1959 novel Psycho, which in 1960 was turned into a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Edward Theodore Gein was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on July 27, 1906, to an alcoholic father and domineering mother, who taught her son that women and sex were evil. Gein was raised, along with an older brother, on an isolated farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. After Gein’s father died in 1940, the future killer’s brother died under mysterious circumstances during a fire in 1944 and his beloved mother passed away from health problems in 1945. Gein remained on the farm by himself. In November 1957, police found the headless, gutted body of a missing store clerk, Bernice Worden, at Gein’s farmhouse. Upon further investigation, authorities discovered a collection of human skulls along with furniture and clothing, including a suit, made from human body parts and skin. Gein told police he had dug up the graves of recently buried women who reminded him of his mother. Investigators found the remains of 10 women in Gein’s home, but he was ultimately linked to just two murders: Bernice Worden and another local woman, Mary Hogan. Gein was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was sent to a state hospital in Wisconsin. His farm attracted crowds of curiosity seekers before it burned down in 1958, most likely in a blaze set by an arsonist. In 1968, Gein was deemed sane enough to stand trial, but a judge ultimately found him guilty by reason of insanity and he spent the rest of his days in a state facility. In addition to Psycho, films including Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs were said to be loosely based on Gein’s crimes.

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