They caught a burglar two doors down from my house, and suddenly I fell into a David Lynch film

[XemaSab]

So they caught a burglar two doors down from us!

She was a 66-year-old woman with about 7 cats. Her MO was to steal stuff from people's houses, such as clothes, flowerpots, knickknacks, and the like, and sell the stuff at garage sales. This woman had garage sales about once every three months, and it was all stolen stuff! She's being held on $300,000 bail.

She lived in a little cottage behind some other apartments. To up the creepiness factor, this is where a guy tried to kill himself a few years ago.

So my mom and I decided to go back to her cottage to check the place out. We walked back there down a creepy, creepy driveway lined with thick hedges, decrepit palm trees, and half-dead geraniums in plastic pots. I said to my mom "This is JUST LIKE David Lynch," and no sooner did I say that than a toothless woman in a wheelchair came lurching out of nowhere at us.

We made our excuses, and took our leave.

But REALLY... a 66-year-old lady cat burglar!

[Chan790]

1. That makes too much sense for a David Lynch movie.

Now if the toothless woman started talking backwards and told you that you were going to die, then you went home to find a postal employee leading a group of clowns in a Falun Gong ritual on your front lawn...that'd be a David Lynch movie.

Seriously, have any of his films ever made sense? They're like a carnival of strange images without context. I watched Mulholland Drive like ten times but had to stop because I felt a mental collapse coming on.

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[ghostsofgiants]

3. They make sense, you just have to think differently.

They subscribe more to dream logic than conscious logic. He's heavily influenced by the surrealists, but also by classic narrative film, lots of noir, and guys like Billy Wilder, so an understandable narrative, albeit one very open to interpretation, weaves its way in.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. That just brightened my day a little bit.

:D

[XemaSab]

4. Update on the Redding crime wave:

Three dudes were just screaming at each other and looking like they were about to brawl in front of my house.

4 cops came.

There is now broken glass on the street.

When I got up this morning this was a decent neighborhood. :banghead: