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kimsama
09/22/09

In reply to Essex House Murder Gets Tenuous Celebrity Angle
Whoa, wait a minute..."the drama...debuts tonight"? Are TV execs ordering up hits so that they can shill their shows in newspaper crime stories, now?

And some say America has lost its spirit of ingenuity!
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BowlingForDollars
09/22/09

@kimsama: Yeah, that's a whole other level than Kanye and Taylor Swift. Damn.
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ampersandparade
09/22/09

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Yes, now that they've nabbed Ahmadinejad, their PR problems are behind them. What a coup!
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once
09/21/09

In reply to Essex House Murder Confession
I smell a lawsuit. Praileau showed up to work drunk (probably not the first time) & he accesses various units, for what reason? His co-workers describe him as having a "flash temper." Why couldn't they have fired this guy? Is the hotel unionized? I guess the guy has worked there since he was 17, but what job can you show up to drunk & not be sent home or fired?
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SaraRueful
09/21/09

@once: When you get an answer to that last question, let me know ... my resume is standing by.
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WordyNinja
09/21/09

@once: Pshhhhhh, the day I can't do my job drunk is the day I turn in my badge and gun.
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pollyannacowgirl
09/21/09

In reply to Essex House Murder Confession
That doesn't make any sense. And, as Judge Judy says, "If it doesn't make sense, it's a lie."

I have known some mean drunks, but none of them ever broke into a stranger's room and stabbed them in the neck, with no provocation. There must be more to it than that.
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FormerEnglishMajor
09/21/09

@pollyannacowgirl: you know the stuff will leak out over time. The "quiet guy, kept to himself". The domestic abuse 911 calls. No one goes from "12-year-employee" to "crazed murderer" in a blink.

I HATE cowards who murder women/fight dogs/abuse kids because of their own power and control issues. Get some fucking therapy. Fuck.
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Sergio Hernandez
09/21/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: I mean, in all fairness: wouldn't you kind of hate anyone who murders women (or men, for that matter), fight dogs, or abuse kids, regardless of the reason?
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FormerEnglishMajor
09/21/09

@cerealcommas: most of those ARE caused by power and control issues. Not that any murder is excusable (except if you're tracking down Philip Garrido - then please be my guest), but I can more "understand" the heat of the moment/heartbreak of catch-your-spouse-in-bed-with-someone-else murder. Which, of course, is a tiny minority of the time vs. the "do as I say" crap that these useless wastes of human skin dole out.
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jccalhoun
09/21/09

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Thank goodness the only people getting murdered are students at Ivy League schools and people staying at expensive hotels...
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Glib and Bitchy
09/20/09

In reply to Essex House Murder the Latest Chapter in American Horror
Story passed among us schoolboys playing in Central Park (many years ago) was that one evening the lights in the E and the first S atop the Essex House went dark, land the hotel had its busiest night ever!
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Btwbfdimho
09/21/09

@Glib and Bitchy:
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SpyMagician
09/21/09

@Glib and Bitchy: I heard a similar story about the Milford Plaza. The ord in the sign went dark and suddenly...
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
09/21/09

@SpyMagician: what, it turned into a courtney cox vehicle?
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Glib and Bitchy
09/21/09

@Btwbfdimho: HA! I would friend you again if I could.
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Glib and Bitchy
09/21/09

@MncinglyWhordL'mer: @SpyMagician: I imaginge HS sports teams called Cougars are getting some attention these days.
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SeaBassTian
09/20/09

In reply to Essex House Murder the Latest Chapter in American Horror
A friend of mine lived at Essex House thanks to her sugar daddy while her apartment was being renovated and the place always struck me as being slightly surreal. I would never have predicted a knife sticking out of a neck (not to mention the sweat pants!), but the overall ambiance is Euro-weird.... Although Iman and David Bowie resided there as well!
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snugbug
09/20/09

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"anequally storied spot": Someone is still on Internet Explorer, which does not automatically correct spelling errors.
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Matt Cherette
09/20/09

@snugbug: What the I don't even...
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Airvault
09/20/09

In reply to Essex House Murder the Latest Chapter in American Horror
What is with all the murders lately? Just this weekend they found another family dead in Florida: a mother and her five children. The father fled the country, headed on a plane to Haiti.

I think the Daily Beast was supposed to keep a running tally of how many senseless acts of murder were committed this year, but I never saw that again.

Is it the nature of the media that this is what gets reported, so we see more stories about death? Or is this really something?
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oneninesevenfour
09/21/09

@Airvault: Well considering that NYC is set to have it's lowest murder rate in over 80 years and murder rates throughout the country have been steadily declining since the 1970s (and are rarely has high as they were in the 1930s).

I'd say, yes, this is what gets reported. Gruesome murders bring in the viewers. (Especially because, well if they were common, they wouldn't be "news").
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Macloserboy
09/21/09

@oneninesevenfour: Or maybe we as a city have now chosen quality over quantity.
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squeakel
09/20/09

In reply to Essex House Murder the Latest Chapter in American Horror
Awful!

After a bizarre experience with another hotel guest using their access card to get into my room, I'm on a one woman campaign to get everyone to use that latch lock on the inside of their hotel doors.

Those cards aren't reliable (and many of the employees have them, of course.)
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Seeräuber Jenny
09/22/09

@squeakel:

I sleep with the lights on and place balls of crumpled newspaper around my bed.
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