Mixed feelings: I’m going upstate for Hurricaine Irene
First off, I seem to remember two other hurricaines called Irene. One was a category 2 storm that hit South Florida a little over 10 years ago. I didn’t event know it was going to hit. I was moving into a new waterfront apartment in Palm Beach. My cable and phone were not on yet. It was before the days that everyone had a cellphone. I was sceduled for work 30 miles away in Pompano Beach. I drove there. It was closed. Drove back through the flood. Huge trees were in in the road. I watched telephone polls fall and spark. I made it home and attended a neighbors hurricane party.
Talk about young and stupid.
Ordenarly, I’d weather a storm. I did that one plus two other category 4 storms in South Florida while I resided there. But here’s the thing; most Florida consruction is made to withstand those types of winds. Most of New York’s pre-war construction was not. Plus I am currently in Lower Manhattan, surrounded by water on 3 sides in a basement apartment.
It’s a no-win. It’s going to be horendous trying to leave with hundreds, if not thousands of others with the same idea. I booked a room upstate for a couple of nights. I’m hoping this is all over soon and I can get back in the city again by Monday afternoon. That’s all I have to say. Who knows, maybe it’ll miss. Let’s hope so.
Away…. Back to New York
My job in LA became so slow this summer that it became pointless to show up. I’m in NYC until the end of the summer. If you need to get in contact with me email me heatherpinknyla@gmail.com. If anything interesting happens I’ll continue to write.
“Models”
A male friend of mine in New York whom I just got off the phone with always throws into every conversation how every girl he dates, fucks, or talks to is “one of the top models in the world”
Oh really?
Funny, I was just having this conversation with somebody last week. What exactly is a model in 2011? It seems like 80% of women I meet in every major city claim to be.
Back in the 70s and 80s models were a pretty big deal. They did runway shows and print advertisements all over the world. They had all the magazine covers, They married celebrities and made incredible money. I could see wanting to be a model during that period.
Now those same covers and ad campaigns go to the top singers and actresses. Most people couldn’t tell you who the top supermodels are. I couldn’t even tell you. If they walk in a runway show, such as fashion week, many are doing it for FREE because they want/need exposure. There would be no point in even trying to make it in this field.
And any girl can go to a photographer to get a portfolio done, even myself. So don’t give me this “I only date models” crap. It means nothing.
Event tonight in NYC….
In most cases I do not premote events. However, if you are in NYC tonight please attend!
Osama bin Laden is dead:)
From MSNBC:
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the Saudi extremist whose al-Qaida terrorist organization killed more than 3,000 people in coordinated attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, is dead following a military operation in Pakistan and the U.S. has recovered his body, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night.
“Justice has been done,” the president declared as crowds formed outside the White House to celebrate, singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “We Are the Champions,” NBC News reported.
Obama said bin Laden, whom he called a terrorist “responsible for the murder of thousands of American men, women and children,” was killed in Pakistan earlier in the day after a firefight in an operation that was based on U.S. intelligence.
Officials long believed that bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, having fulfilled the goal once voiced by Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Obama declared that “the death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s struggle to defeat al-Qaida,” he stressed that the effort continues.
1 year ago today I started this blog.
And despite what my critics say it was not for attention. I was living in New York, if you could call it that. More like isolated in New York. My friends for the most part were out west. I was involved with the guy whom I named before who for the most part, wouldn’t let me talk to anyone. If we went out he’d basically expect me to look at the floor all night. If someone had a conversation with me,( of course since I had worked in porn) I was trying to fuck them! Even though most of the friends he had that I met though him were 19 years old, on drugs, or thugs from Hunt’s Point. I never left my apartment, and I let myself go physically almost to prove to him that I wasn’t going to do anything. It was killing my sanity and I had no one to talk to. I had Internet though. I found that when I was on my Twitter page talking about what was going on, I felt better. Then I looked at the WordPress site and found it was as easy to blog as it was to use any social network site. I started this blog and started to write about my experiences and things that were interesting to me. I didn’t think that people would actually read it. It still boggles my mind how many people read this blog, sometimes as many as 500 a day(not every day, of course, but still a lot.)
I’ve learned a few things from this whole experience:
I love mainstream stories more than porn, but my stories about porn get the most hits.
Women outside of porn will hate me no matter how nice I am and how many years have gone by since my last movie. This is particularly true among women in there 40s and soccer mom types. They can sum up any reason to say I’m a bad or stupid person by some “you did porn” argument.
Andrew Parker is more popular to read about and gets more Google hits and readers than Noel Ashman. Both lose to Richard Brill though, who was one of my most popular entrys. (RIP Richard) Noel Ashman googles himself a lot though from what I’ve noticed on my WordPress dashbord.
It’s been a great first year for writing this and I can see myself continuing to do so for a long time. I would encourage others in the business to do so as well. It’s as easy as Twitter, Facebook or any social network site
Long Island’s Craigslist Killer: May have law enforcement background
From ABC News:
Whoever Dumped Bodies of Eight Women on New York Beach May Have Knowledge of Police Techniques, Investigators Say
Police are considering the possibility that the serial killer who has dumped at least eight bodies along a Long Island barrier beach may be an ex-cop or other law officer, law enforcement officials familiar with the case said.
The possibility that the killer could be a former law enforcement official or other person with knowledge of law enforcement techniques is being considered based on evidence that the suspect may understand investigators’ procedures, they said.
Numerous people with possible links to the four slain women who have been identified have come to the attention of police since the investigation began, the officials said.
Police are also looking at people who have had regular or routine access to the beach where the bodies were found, and investigators are also exploring possible links to the serial killer who murdered prostitutes in New Jersey, they said.
“[The killer] could be law enforcement, could be a civil servant, could be a code enforcement person, could be a building inspector, could be a postman … or it could be anyone who knows the area quite well,” former New York Police Department detective Wally Zeins told ABC News.
One clue that the killer may have a detailed knowledge of police techniques is that he or she allegedly placed several taunting phone calls to a murder victim’s relative, according to those familiar with the case.
The calls were placed from crowded spots like New York’s Penn Station, where even if police were able to trace the cell signal, it would be next to impossible for surveillance cameras to single out the killer.
“The caller always stayed on the phone for under three minutes — which indicated that he or she knows that it takes the police from three to five minutes to trace the call,” Rod Wheeler, former homicide detective told “Good Morning America.”
“Most of these telephone calls that have gone out to the deceased have been a male’s voice, so from that you have to assume it’s probably a male that’s doing these crimes,” he added.
According to one investigator familiar with the case and the behavior of serial killers, this appears to be an organized serial killer who plans methodically and is probably above average intelligence. It appears that the killer usually lures people, kills them in one place and then disposes of the body in another.
This sort of killer is often social — not a loner — with family, friends and what would appear to be a normal life, the investigator said.
It was the disappearance of a prostitute that led New York police to stumble on the serial killer’s ocean-front dumping ground in western Suffolk County.
Shannan Gilbert, 24, disappeared in May 2010 after arranging online to meet a client. Her disappearance triggered a search in the scrub brush along Gilgo Beach, a popular summer getaway spot, but much less frequently visited in the winter.
In December police found four skeletal bodies, all of them women and all of them prostitutes, but none were Gilbert.
Police say Gilbert met a man named Joseph Brewer on Craigslist the night that she disappeared, but so far he has been cooperative with their investigation and isn’t a suspect. There are now new reports a second man was seen partying with Gilbert the night she went missing, but so far no arrests have been made.
Last week, cops found another four bodies. Those bodies have not been identified, but Suffolk County Police said Tuesday that none of the remains belonged to Gilbert.
Cops obtained DNA samples of Gilbert’s family last year and were able to quickly check the remains against those samples.
The police conclusion suggests that Gilbert is possibly a ninth victim of a serial killer.
Cops searched the brush along Gilgo Beach and neighboring Oak Beach last week, looking for the bodies of more women potentially killed and dumped in the thick vegetation, while other detectives worked to create a profile of the man who is stalking prostitutes online and killing them.
Suffolk County police have kept a tight lid on many of the investigation’s details, commenting publicly only on the search efforts, including the canine units with cadaver sniffing dogs and a dozen police recruits from the academy brought in to help search for bodies.
In December, while searching for Gilbert, police stumbled on the killer’s dumping ground, an area that has turned out to be a seven-mile stretch of beach as more bodies were discovered.
Zeins is confident that the killer will eventually slip up.
“The reason why we put erasers on pencils is because we all make mistakes. Whoever it is will make a mistake, and they’ll get caught,” he said.
Long Island Serial Killer’s Body Count May Grow
Brad Garrett, an ABC News consultant and former FBI agent who has investigated dozens of high profile cases including the death of Washington intern Chandra Levy and the 2001 anthrax mailings, said he feels there is a distinct connection between the killer and the area.
“Given the volume of bodies in one location, it tells me the killer is very familiar with this stretch of road,” Garrett said. “He grew up there, works there, lives there, or has a reason to frequent area. He feels comfortable stopping on that road at least eight times and dragging women to the sea grass line without worrying about being caught.”
Though the profile of the Long Island killer is specific to the clues he has left behind, experts say there are typical traits many killers tend to have.
Question to my readers in NYC: Was Andrew Parker/Pollack released?
It says on the New York Department of Corrections website that his earliest release date was 3/28/11. He has outstanding charges in Conneticut for basicly the same thing although he’s not listed on their state prison website as an inmate. Maybe a halfway house situation? I can’t see him getting off this easy for the amount and seriousness of the charges.
From NYS-DOC website:
http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ3/WINQ130
My Birthday is January 15th!
My wish list…. I will send you something back if you send me a gift:)
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Bernard Madoff son found dead
From Wall St Journal:
NEW YORK—One of Bernard Madoff’s sons was found dead Saturday of an apparent suicide, according to a law-enforcement official.
Mark Madoff, 46 years old, was found hanged in his apartment at 158 Mercer St., in Manhattan’s SoHo section by his father-in-law, according to law-enforcement officials . A family member notified police around 7:30 a.m. No suicide note was found, the officials said.
Mark Madoff’s death comes as federal prosecutors were ramping up their scrutiny of Bernard’s brother and sons, who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing. Seven people, including Madoff’s top lieutenant, Frank DiPascali, have been criminally charged.
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A medical examiner arrives at the apartment building where Mark Madoff lived.
Bernard Madoff swindled a long list of investors out of billions of dollars and is serving a 150-year prison term in North Carolina.
Martin Flumenbaum of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, an attorney representing Mark Madoff and his brother, Andrew, said: “Mark Madoff took his own life today. This is a terrible and unnecessary tragedy. Mark was an innocent victim of his father’s monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo. We are all deeply saddened by this shocking turn of events.”
The scandal put a harsh light on members of the swindler’s family. The financier’s brother, Peter, played a prominent role in the family’s company. Mark and Andrew Madoff both worked on a trading desk at the firm, on a side of the business that wasn’t directly involved in the Ponzi scheme.
A year ago, the court-appointed trustee trying to unravel Bernard Madoff’s financial affairs sued several members of the family, including the brothers, accusing them of failing to detect the fraud while living lavish lifestyles financed with the family’s ill-gotten fortune.
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Mark Madoff at the BLMIS office during July 2005 in New York City.
The lawsuit accused Mark Madoff of using $66 million he received improperly to buy luxury homes in New York City, Nantucket and Connecticut.
This week, Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee recovering assets for the victims, filed multiple lawsuits seeking funds from people and firms he alleged were close to the scheme or unwittingly profited at the expense of others.
In February, Mark Madoff’s wife, Stephanie Morgan, petitioned a court to change her last name, saying her family had gotten threats and was humiliated by the scandal.
Mark Madoff had one child with his current wife, Ms. Morgan, and two children with his former wife, Susan Elkin of Connecticut, according to a civil lawsuit filed this week seeking to recover money from him and his relatives.
A spokeswoman for Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, declined to comment. Mr. Bharara’s office is handling the continuing criminal investigation of the Madoff Ponzi scheme and had been scrutinizing Mark and Andrew Madoff and their uncle Peter.
Calls to Mark Madoff’s father’s attorney weren’t immediately returned Saturday. Calls to the FBI also weren’t immediately returned. Previously, spokespeople for the brothers had repeatedly denied that they had any knowledge of their father’s crimes.
When reached at her home Saturday morning, Ms. Elkin, Mark Madoff’s ex- wife, declined to discuss what happened.
Police investigators were at Mark Madoff’s apartment Saturday morning, along with officials from the medical examiner’s office, which will determine the cause of death.
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