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I Don’t Have an Alibi

Posted on April 30, 2021 by mohawkvalleygirl

I am spending the evening watching 20/20 on OWN, and apparently it is New York State Murder Day. First we saw an episode about Cal Harris, accused of killing his wife in Owego, NY, and now it is an episode about Nick Hilary, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s son in Potsdam, NY. I lived in Owego as a very little girl, and I lived in Potsdam as an adult, so these episodes are of great interest to me.

I have seen other shows about both cases, but you never know when one of them will show something new. I don’t always remember everything anyways. Of course I share my opinions and questions with Steven as we go. “Why did that witness wait so long to come forward?” “What about those fingerprints?” and my usual, “He totally did it!”

Mostly, I am happy the episodes specify the towns involved. So often these true crime shows talk about “a small town in upstate New York,” as if there is New York City and the rest of the state.

So this is my Thursday blog post. If only I could think of a punchy but not quite related headline, I could bill this as a Non-Sequitur Thursday Post. Think, Cindy, think!

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DVR’d and Lame Television on Friday

Posted on September 5, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

Cheers!

Full disclosure:  This is not the glass I am currently sipping from.  However, I felt it would suffice as a depiction of my Friday night.  Regular readers know I rarely forego Lame Post Friday, and this week is no exception.  On with random observations and half baked philosophy.

I may have coffee later.

Earlier this evening I looked at ID to see if Deadly Women was on.  Alas, it was not.  We put on what we thought would be a DVR’d episode of 48 Hours, but turned out to be Married With Secrets.  The machine had recorded the tail end of a Deadly Women  episode, so we had cause for some disappointment.  However, the Married With Secrets dealt with a case we were familiar with from Snapped.  I love to see different views of the same case!

Another favorite.

Earlier we had been watching Dateline:Secrets Uncovered.  Unfortunately we have seen most of these episodes, and turned to our DVR when one turned up we had seen too recently.

We were watching this yesterday.

I include the Snapped logo since I mentioned it earlier.  It is, of course, one of our go to shows.

Keith Morrison. Hubba, hubba!

Soon I will be looking for another Dateline episode.  Keith Morrison is my favorite host.  Oh, his voice!  In the meantime, I hope this will suffice for a Friday Lame Post.

 

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Crime After Murder?

Posted on April 7, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

I had meant to do a Saturday Running Commentary post.  I even went running,  and it was a pretty good run.  But I didn’t.   Now my laptop is acting up and I am sitting here on my Tablet, typing one letter at a time with the stylus .

We just got back from Murder by the Book, the murder mystery we put on at Morning Star Methodist Church in Ilion.  It went pretty well. I wish I had taken a few pictures,  but as usual with me these days, I did not have my act together.   Still, I took part in the performance and did all right.  That was the important thing tonight.

Now all I want to do is to sit on my couch, knit, and watch a crime show.  Maybe I could just throw in a picture from my Media Library to fill out the post.

Ah, a crime show is what I crave.

Right now Snapped is on, but I have seen this episode several times.  Perhaps a Dateline on DVR…

Or there’s always Forensic Files

“What about me?”

Or a monster movie.  We shall see.

In the meantime,  I’m going to call this a Slacker Saturday, hit Publish, and drive on.  Happy Saturday,  everyone!

 

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Is This Life in the Fast Lame?

Posted on February 16, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

I said, “I have to make my blog post.  Thank goodness it’s Lame Post Friday!”  Still, even a lame post is a post that must be composed, typed in and published.  Well, let’s get on with it.  Full disclosure:  I have no random observations or half-baked philosophy to offer today.  I am going to share a few pictures and make a few remarks about them.  Let me look at my Media Library…

Why is this not part of my coffee cup collection?

Here’s a show I have not seen in a long time: Deadly Women, hosted by Candace DeLong.  It is one of those shows where the narrator tells you the story while actors act it out with some dialogue.  Yes, what I call a re-enactment-fest, but I like it.  I should just mention that Friday is usually one of my true crime show nights, with Dateline: Secrets Uncovered on Oxygen.

I just loves me some Dateline.

We were watching Dateline, but the next episode covered Dalia Dippolito (why doesn’t she spell her name with an “h” like the flower?).  Steven wasn’t into it.  He wanted to watch People’s Court, but Judge Mathis was on at the time.  I confess to being somewhat fond of Judge Mathis. I like it when the litigants hug it out after the case.

Yeah, he’s cool.

People’s Court with Judge Marilyn Milian is on at six. After that, maybe we can get back to Dateline.

Steven want her to be his girlfriend.

So this is my exciting Friday night.  I’m sitting around in my sweats, watching judge or true crime shows, and typing in lame blog post.  Have a nice weekend, everyone!

 

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Merry Mental Meanderings

Posted on December 26, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I think since today is Christmas (although I may be posting late enough that WordPress will stamp this Dec. 26), it is appropriate to use “merry” in the headline.  And I am certainly not up for much beyond mental meanderings.  Oh, I have had a nice holiday.  Two days of hanging out with my family:  lots of good laughs, good food, a few drinks… I am so blessed.

So I am back home, pajama pants on, bra off, crime show on television (Forensic Files), and a little glass of Pinot Noir.  I am basking in holiday thankfulness.  Gee, I hope that is not too boring for a blog post. Perhaps I should look for a picture of a monster to pep things up.

So it’s not a monster. Sue me.

Forensic Files is one of the classier crime shows we watch.  They indulge in re-enactments, but the concentration is on the science of detection.  It is very educational.  We were just talking about it last night, when we found out that one of my nieces likes to watch it on Netflix, sometimes at three in the morning.  The last episode we saw was a case that was previously covered on Snapped.  Regular readers may remember that this is one of my favorite things:  to see the same case covered in different true crime shows.

OK, so I’ve gone from Merry to Murder in just over 200 words.  I’m going to call that acceptable for a holiday Monday.  Merry Christmas everyone.

 

 

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A Little Murder to Finish my Weekend

Posted on November 6, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

Ah, Wrist to Forehead Sunday, a day when I get even more lame than Lame Post Friday and wuss out even more than Wuss-out Wednesday.  All I want to do today is sit on my couch, crochet, and watch television.  That is pretty much what I have been doing in, with small breaks to wash dishes, make popcorn, fix dinner, and do a couple more marginally useful things.  I can never get anything done on a Sunday.

When Steven got home from work, I informed him that I did not want to take down Halloween decorations, as he had suggested we do.  I said we should leave them up for one more day and watch Halloween movies.  Steven is the nice sort of husband who agrees to such things.  We watched The Old Dark House, which I had DVR’d from TCM.

I mostly remember Tom Poston from “Newhart.”

We also have the original Old Dark House with Boris Karloff on the DVR.  Still, I thought a William Castle-Hammer production was worth a watch.  But what to watch next is the question?  I’ve seen two Hammer Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee this weekend. I have one more yet on my DVR.

Gotta love that Christopher Lee.

While I think about it, I am looking at my usual Sunday entertainment, Snapped on Oxygen.  It’s so relaxing.  I put it on while I made the popcorn, “For background music.”

I have not reached my breaking point.

I do love a true crime show.  Maybe I should look for a Dateline or 20/20.  Something cheerful to round out my weekend.  Happy Sunday, everyone.

 

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Re-Enacting is a Crime

Posted on September 1, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

I am quite addicted to true crime shows on television. My favorite is Snapped, but I also enjoy the quality documentaries like 20/20, 48 Hours, and On The Case with Paula Zahn.

What I am not so fond of  are what I call the re-enactment-fests.  The narrator tells the story, interspersed with commentary by true-crime writers, investigators and sometimes even the participants in the drama.  During the narration, actors portray the story, with or without dialogue.

Now, to me, re-enactments are always cheesy.  In theory they can be helpful, for example showing a complicated action that is difficult to picture from mere description.  In reality, things are often re-enacted that I can perfectly well imagine and would in fact prefer to.  Snapped is a terrible offender in this respect:  sometimes they will talk about how this woman is talking to the police and they show somebody’s mouth saying words.  I KNOW what talking to the police looks like!  I don’t need to see it!

Still, I don’t consider Snapped a re-enactment-fest.  A real re-enactment-fest shows you the ENTIRE story with actors.  Snapped: Killer Couples is a re-enactment-fest.  There are many others.  Sometimes I watch them to laugh at them.  Sometimes I will come across one that shows a case I have seen in a “real” show.  Then I watch it and roll my eyes at how much prettier the re-enactors are than the original participants.

Right now I cannot find a true crime show on the television.  So I will publish this blog post talking about them.  It is, after all, Wuss-out Wednesday.

 

 

 

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