Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Well, I got it from Redbox and right off the bat there is a really graphic sex scene, so had I been watching it with my mother, it would have ended right there. I don’t want to give anything away here, but feel compelled to say the plot just keeps on hammering the leading character and does a number on the others as well. Several activities, for lack of a better word, were kind of out there without background, other than what I surmised. I watched it once; I don’t think I would watch it again.

Oh, yeah, the main character has a big stomach paunch.

My Great-Great Aunt Sara and me

The lady in this photo was born Sarah Jane Wisler, but she dropped the “h” and after teaching for a few years married an encyclopedia salesmen and traveled with him. They had their picture taken by the “Kodak Man” at Salt Lake. I’m going to have to scan that photo in. Then he died and she went to Washington D.C. and worked in a white blouse and long white skirt in a government office and then she married L.D.

They showed up one day that summer I was one with a trailer my dad said was packed like a cube. My grandmother was her niece, Jessie Wisler, although there was not much difference in their ages. My great-grandfather was her brother. His name was Wesley. Between the two of them there were four others, Jesse, Frank, Grace and Anna.

Let’s see. Wesley’s father was Jacob and his mother was Anna Lucetta Nye and they came out from Ohio, I think. Before that their families were in Pennsylvania.

And I’m the short blonde in front of Sara(h).

When I was five, she sent me a copy of “A Christmas Carol” she bought when she went to Elizabeth’s coronation. I don’t know how old I was when she sent the picture of her in a rickshaw. Oh, and she dyed her hair red.

I may have written this before, and if so, never mind.

Red Sox, Yankees, curses and voodoo

First of all, please pay attention to this:

Don’t do this kind of thing in front of people you do not trust or know well, it is frowned upon in many places.

This is a quote from the bottom of the page on this site about making Voodoo Dolls. It is probably good advice. I am not going to show a picture of the New Orleans doll or the Modern doll, but is is much more complicated than I thought. I figured you could just make a stick figure and declare it was So and So and that would do it; apparently I am wrong.

No, the New Orleans doll requires Spanish moss and the voodoo site cautions this: Spanish moss is often infested with red bugs and other small parasites. Inspect it very carefully before handling. Then the Modern doll requires a picture of the complete person transfered onto fabric and stuffed.

According to this site, voodoo dolls are usually used for positive things:

  • Add pins. Voodoo practitioners use dolls primarily for boring positive things like healing people or sparking romance. If you harm your boss out of spite, karma dictates that the consequences for you will be worse. There are seven pins, each one with a different symbol:
    • yellow – success
    • white – positive
    • red – power
    • purple – spirituality
    • green – money
    • blue – love
    • black – repelling negative energy

However, some media have shown them used for nefarious purposes and so some sports injuries or failures to perform maybe be subjected to a VSI. (Voodoo Scene Investigation)

Sore arms on Yankee pitchers might be suspicious.

A bone spur on the heel on a catcher’s hand.

A sudden allergy to the wood used in bats.

Oh, what am I thinking??

OH WAIT

Someone is already thinking this at RESTORE THE CURSE. And you can actually put pins in players. . . just watch out for the aforementioned famous “karma”.