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Didn't they just find a newborn baby in those woods or is that another abduction story?

They are doing DNA testing to see if that baby is hers. That baby is alive, so at least that's good news.

I'm currently laughing at Jay for reading the Weapon X novelization....

Is it based on the comic story by Barry Windsor Smith?

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Yup. I've never actually read the comic, but the novel is decent enough. I also read the Ultimates novel, Tomorrow Men, which was kind of dumb.

This is in my neck of the woods...

 

Missing Woman

Isn't it also where Slick is, or am I confused?

Slicks further south. I actually live in Canton. The abduction happened in North Canton, which is a city...north of Canton. The otter lives in North Canton, so this is a little scary.

Anyone wonder what the lyrics to songs by Sigur Ros mean?

Well...

This is in my neck of the woods...

Missing Woman

NORTH CANTON, Ohio - Jessie Davis was excited about the upcoming birth of her second child, getting baby clothes ready and packing a suitcase for the delivery.

 

She had decided to name the baby girl Chloe, which means "blooming" in Greek. The 26-year-old was in good spirits when she spoke to her mother Wednesday.

 

But Davis hasn't been heard from since.

 

Authorities have no suspects in her disappearance and only a few chilling words from her 2-year-old son, who may have seen what happened to her: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug."

 

The boy, Blake, was found by Davis' mother, Patricia Porter, after she went looking for her daughter because she had not heard from her for a day. Blake, wearing a dirty diaper, was alone in a home with broken furniture, a pool of bleach on the floor and a bed comforter missing.

 

"My God something's wrong!" Porter said in a 911 call.

 

Porter told the emergency dispatcher that her daughter "would never, ever" leave the child behind. Davis is due to deliver July 3.

 

A weekend search by police and 60 to 70 volunteers found no leads.

 

The father of Davis' son and unborn girl is Canton police patrolman Bobby Cutts Jr. He is estranged from his wife, with whom he has at least one other child.

 

Besides the broken furniture and bleach, Davis' home had a mattress in her bedroom partially off the bed and a knocked-over nightstand and lamp, Porter said. Items from Davis' purse were scattered on the kitchen floor.

 

Her cell phone was missing, investigators said, but her car was still at the home. The sliding patio door was unlocked.

 

The 30-year-old Cutts was to drop off the boy at Davis' home Thursday, Porter said in her 911 call. He could not be reached for comment Monday at his Canton home, where FBI agents and sheriff's deputies searched Monday night, removing items.

 

Cutts, who took part Sunday in a search around Davis' home, was placed on paid administrative leave due to the stress of the disappearance, Canton police Chief Dean McKimm told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.

 

Sheriff's deputies also searched Jessie Davis' duplex over the weekend and returned Monday evening with FBI agents.

 

"You just feel absolutely numb," Porter said. "I see her picture on television and I think, 'Oh my God, what a beautiful girl.' And then it hits you, 'That's my girl.'"

 

Police have advised Porter not to ask the boy questions so that any recollections and information come out naturally.

 

"Whatever comes, comes," Porter said. "He plays a lot. We're not trying to prod him or anything."

 

Davis is employed by Allstate Insurance at a call center in nearby Hudson, company spokesman Mike Siemienas said Monday. A co-worker, Dianna Piltz, sent Davis a text message at 8:15 a.m. Thursday that wasn't returned.

 

"We freak out when she's a couple minutes late. She's pregnant and you always worry about pregnant women," Piltz said.

 

Neighbors said Davis lived a low-key life, and was often seen pushing a stroller. "Every now and then we'd see her out and about," said Jeff Midkiff, 46. "She would wave, or whatever. She seemed like a very quiet person."

 

North Canton is south of Cleveland in northeastern Ohio.

 

In 2000 in nearby Ravenna, a pregnant woman was killed and her baby was cut out by a heavyset woman who claimed she was pregnant and took the victim's baby as her own. She killed herself five days later when police traced cell phone calls and went to confront her.

 

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Associated Press writers M.R. Kropko in North Canton and Matt Reed in Columbus contributed to this report.

Ok...been a while since I've done this...

Wolverine: Weapon X. It's the novelization. I can't remember who wrote it off the top of my head, but it's much better than I would have thought. Well written and all for a novelization of a comic book.

The Mezzanine by Nickleson Baker. The 1st 4 chapters are about the narrator tying his shoelaces. THAT is decompression, my friends! No, in all seriousness, it's great so far...lots of little observations that we all make without realizing it.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. This is great. I'm about 1/2 way through, and I'm loving it.

I saw 300 last week.

A liiiiittle over the top, but great! I'll probably buy it.

I just watched Who Killed the Electric Car?, a documentary about GM's "failed" electric car, the EV-1. It made me decide 1) never to buy another GM, or for that matter, American car again. 2)Capitalism isn't something that will destroy the world, it has destroyed it. (see my clever play on the EV-1 commercial?)

The documentary shows how the Auto inustry and the Oil industry intentially dropped the ball on an Electric car that worked, was efficient, was practical, and hey, didn't look stupid. Now I hate the world.

Ok, I already hated it, I just have a new direction to send my hate.

I wish Ralph Nader were president. :icon_cry:

Oddly, I agree, you DO look like a soldier. Wow!

This is the best shot of myself that I could get tonight. I may decide that I hate this picture when I can see it on a monitor that isn't dim and out of focus, but I'll worry about that later.

 

The clock on the back pages?

No, I was refering to an advertisement that appears in some of the scenes, then again on one of the 1st pages of the last issue. (It might be on the page that has the title (A Stronger Loving World), but I don't have my copy on me right now).

The Veidt Method: I Shall Give You Bodies Beyond Imagining

I'm reading Alan Moore's Watchmen, and I just don't see what all the fuss is about over this one.

 

I don't have the time to go through it in detail, but: the interplay of words and images, the parallel (both contrasting and mirroring) storylines, the use of symbolism and repeated images, the experimental narrative structures, the use of backmatter for world-building and generally the spectacular attention to detail on virtually every level of the book, from background scenes to wider thematic arcs.

 

The thing is that it was so influential that many of the things Moore first used (or helped develop) in Watchmen are in common use now, so the book as lost some impact there. But it still has so much depth that it's genuinely breathtaking. To me, anyway. Put on your English literature cap and look at how he tells the story, not just the story being told.

What he said. The otter and I are actually reading this right now (I'm reading it for the 4th time). It's one of those things in which your appriciation will become deeper if you read it more than once. On second read, many of the advertisments and whatnot in the background take on new meaning. Especially...well, that would spoil things so I won't say....

I'm still the only one who voted for the Monarch. You people wouldn't know greatness if it were spelled out backwards and tattooed on your foreheads so that it looked correct in a mirror!

Actually, He's awesome, too. The problem is that just bout everything on the show is awesome.

I'm in the second week of my three weeks off from work, and I keep dreaming that I am at work. I thought that something was bothering me about the job, but i just realized this morning that I'm dreaming about the place...because I miss it! I want to work! What's wrong with me!?!

I'd recommend starting out at Community college and then transferring, Wolvy.

There's a lot of pluses to starting at the Community and then working up to a private college.

Only drawback is to make sure that all the credits you earn at Community will transfer. Some credits don't transfer, but most do.

 

I thought he meant "Private" as in he'd be the only one there.....

 

I don't know anything about a Trade school. Not sure if my advice applies or not.

You just want to make sure its accredited. In Canton, there is Brown Mackey College, which is like buying expensive toilet paper, and there is Stark State College of Technology, which is fully accredited.

Full disclosure: I tutor at Stark State.

Almost done with Sleeper Cell season one. I like it more than I thought I would initially. I think it's funny that their 'cell' contains 3 white guys, a black guy and a Saudi...

 

Yeah, it's pretty entertaining, isn't it? Season 2, however, is ludicrous and shitty.

I just finished season 2, and thought it was good...

...until the completely ridiculous final episode. What the fuck was that?

The otter and I watched Brazil last night (the 2 1/2 hour cut). I had seen it before, but she hadn't. It was even better than I remembered it being. Otter loved it too.

I love Lolita. It's such a great book.

You've never read Watchmen, Jay? You mean Alan Moore's Watchmen?

Oh, I've read Watchmen several times. The otter has never, though. She had read Lolita prior to our reading it, but she wanted to read it again.

We just watched the Kubrick Lolita movie...meh. Akward transitions between rather abrupt scenes, a Lo and Humbert who were both too old, a wooden humbert...

The only redeeming thing about the film was Sellers as Quilty...he was great!

Been watching 'Living with Strangers" on this page.

It's a documentary filmed by two "phroggers", or people who sneak into other peoples houses and live, unnoticed, for up to a week or so.

Just finished Lolita. Work was stressnig me out, so I quit reading when I would get home so that I could veg out to Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

Anyway, Lolita is good, if not a little (a lot) disturbing. Lots of clever word play (for instance, when angry with a character for marrying a guy named Richard and settling down in a shack, Humbert says, "I'll leave you with your incidental Dick and your awful little hole.")

Next book I read with the otter: Watchmen! Booya!

Like i said i i'm not going to review it but it pisses me off when people just plain call films crap i've heard bad things but like i said only really from the internet never from anyone i've spoken to, most people i know loved it. But to sharply call it crap seems too far.

 

the thing that strikes me is its getting slagged off because it changed directions from the first two. It just seems a shame that they've gone through major effort to make these films simply to have some guys on the internet slag it off and put people off seeing it because it wasn't the way they liked it.

You don't like Abhi's review, but he could turn around and say 'Mick, lets see you do better'

Wake up time to die. Fucking A that is Ridley Scott's best film. I particularly like and prefer the director's cut version. I think the voice over and that ending were fat well cut. The cyborgs being "villians" should be obvious by the time the viewer discovers that Sean Young is a replicant. I mean that is the entire crux of the film, and if they don't "get" that than they are "r-e-t-a-r-d-e-d". Pardon me, but that's my opinion.

Eh...I know a lot of people who just see the replicants killing and thing "these are bad guys", even when Harrison Ford killing is acceptable (as he kills a replicant).

It seems like the concensus is that you all loved 52 except for most of it.

The hypnogogic state.

OK...I forming a band just to use this as a name.

Not to sound a smarmy git, but i just got 2 A's in courseworks, finsihed my 360 page coursework, and won £600 of computer. Its been a good two days.

Git.