
I'm trying to figure out what he's saying. It's got to be something all mobbish and tough-like. ("It's like this, see..." or "Hand over the _____....") I dunno. Something.
"Pearl's head is salty. Why is her head salty?"Good question, June. Better question: Why do you know that Pearl's head is salty.
"Shriners, I say!"I don't even remember who was speaking. Shriners? What the frak is that about?
Do ya like it? Do ya like it? (I'm not sure why, but so far, I've mainly used it to paint lone fruits or vegetables.)
I know just how Lindsay Lohan feels.***
Photograph by June
In his youth, Alessandro Arrojo planned to join the priesthood, but following an adolescence of waning religious convictions and a burgeoning obsessive compulsive disorder—with a particular fixation on oral hygiene—he chose instead a career in dentistry (though he pursued this new vocation with a near monastic devotion). His profession is both a blessing and a curse, giving him the daily opportunity to exorcise his hygienic demons but also forcing him daily to confront a shocking parade of dental travesties—stains, tooth rot, gingivitis, halitosis—mediated only by thin latex gloves and a flimsy paper mask. Patients complain that he scrapes too hard but are secretly grateful that, in his intensity of focus, he makes no small talk and, consequently, requires no embarrassing mumble-mouthed finger-filled responses.Your turn. What's his name/deal?
Zing!**
"...#30, juror eleven; #31, juror twelve; #32, first alternate; #33, second alternate. Okay, we're done."And I, juror #34 (along with jurors #35-50), was sent home from the day, one randomized tick away from serving as an alternate on the jury of (what would prove to be) an exceptionally nasty trial.
"Prosecutors have ghastly evidence—starting with the trunk that reeked inside Judge Julian Parker's courtroom, prompting him to call in janitors to spray sanitizer and sweep the new carpeting..."And then, on Thursday, this article announced the guilty verdict, further detailing the grisly details of the case, and reporting that:
"The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for about 40 minutes before unanimously finding Morgan guilty of second-degree murder."Round 9 (last Wednesday):