The news photo image of murder suspect John Mark Karr, at left, is hands-down PHOTO OF THE YEAR – it belongs in a museum. Why? Look at the casually perfect composition of Karr, his head framed like a halo by the telling body (and hand) language of the handlers and press members (whom we only see part of). The whole lay-out rivals a 17th century Caravaggio painting! And that face centered in the upper half! Those eyes! Seduction! The Mona Lisa’s smile says less! And the colors! The sky blue shirt popping out of the daylight but nevertheless shadowy background… all-the-way buttoned! The too waist-high disturbing khaki pants! No belt! Do I see some foreshortened perspective in those legs? Why yes I do! …and the crotch, which is centered – and mirrors the upper-half-centering of the face, drawing an invisible dividing line horizontally across the photo’s center (represented symbolically by the missing belt?) Your eyes just bounce back and forth between that disturbing crotch, which forces you to look away and then to the disturbing face, repelling your eyes back to that awful crotch, forcing you to look away – and so on and so forth. The whole photo plays pedophile ping-pong with your eyeballs! Look what has been captured here! Talk about “hypnotic locking visionâ€? this man could seduce a desk lamp! *gasp!* By the way, I know I’m not the only person on earth who was disappointed late last night when they heard there was huge break in the Jon Benet murder case that involved a man arrested in Bangkok who had confessed to the murder. Oh, okay… it was one lone killer that knew the child, and broke into the home at night or something, and killed her. It was an accident during some deplorable sex thing. Okay. You mean it wasn’t the unstable mother? It wasn’t the jitter-eyed, evasive father? All the creepy inconsistencies in the case that took years to confuse us more, more, more, more and more and (don’t stop) more and more …they all just meant, nothing. The whole luridly fascinating, obsessive mess was washed away like a sand castle, just like that. Oh well, they caught the perpetrator. Yep. Good. That’s great. The family can rest in peace, mmhmm… justice is served. Karma is real. The sun has risen on normalcy. It’s just like a few years ago when we found out who “deep throatâ€? really was. But wait… I wake up this morning …aaaaand look on the Drudge Report and lo and behold my bored eyes spy the photo of suspect John Mark Karr (above), framed with red and black news headline-links (where’s the flashing siren?) like “Suspect may have given false confessionâ€? and “Authorities doubt confession is realâ€? and “Suspect was totally obsessed with child murdersâ€? and “Suspect had strange, loner life in Thailandâ€? and “Evidence doesn’t support Karr’s claimsâ€? and “Karr’s brother says suspect working on book about child murderers may have slipped into ill mental health and may be doing the whole thing for some kind of twisted sick fame thing and…â€? oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god my eyes widened and the whole thing just became 100-times more fascinating. I’m floored! Yes… you just read those last statements and no I did not type them by mistake. I was really like a child who went to bed thinking Santa wasn’t going to come on Christmas morning, and woke up to a room full of presents. You would be correct in your assumption that I am as sick as John Mark Karr might be. Yes Satan, there really is a Santa Clause.

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