Word: sketched
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...prison thank-you note from America's housekeeping guru and an innocuous envelope from a fallen dictator lies the online shopping world of macabre, shocking and soul-chilling prison collectibles - magazine fashion ads defaced with satanic symbols and stained with the bodily fluids of a campus shooter, a sketch of a headless victim drawn by a Death Row murderer, even fingernail clippings and foot scrapings from a serial killer...
...most notorious prison art, Kahan says, only inspires more pain and horror for the victims. In April, Denise Johnson and Victoria Snider, whose husband and sister, respectively, were killed in 2002 by the Beltway Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo, were shocked when they learned that his sketch of Osama bin Laden was for sale on murderauction.com. The starting bid was $399, but so far the Canadian seller nicknamed "Redrum" - murder spelled backwards - has yet to sell the crudely drawn portrait. "It would be worthless without Malvo's name on it," Kahan says. "It is profit from ill-gotten notoriety...
...sexually assaulting her several times. Before leaving her home, the man, who wore a nylon stocking over his head, forced the victim to drink soda and wipe her underwear to discard of any DNA evidence he could have left behind. The victim assisted police in creating a composite sketch, and, although she said it was only about 60% accurate, the produced image looked like Wyniemko, then 43, who was being held on a misdemeanor charge. He was convicted of criminal sexual conduct, armed robbery and breaking and entering...
There's a clip from a Norwegian sketch-comedy show making the rounds on YouTube. It's called "Middle Ages Tech Support," and it's about a medieval monk who's having trouble with a new piece of technology, something called a "book." He gets his tech-support guy in to walk him through it. "Compared to the scroll," the monk complains, "it takes longer to turn the pages ..." And so on. Maybe it's funnier in Norwegian...
It’s been only a few years since the group, who met as middle-schoolers in the hippie-academic community of Berkeley, Calif., started posting videos online as “The Lonely Island,” a sketch troupe specializing in “The O.C.” spoofs and parody raps. But with this summer’s release of “Hot Rod,” a big-budget comedy starring Samberg and directed by Schaffer, the group will attempt to translate their low-fi style to a larger audience and a wider...