She was a great dog, and though I'm sad, and my mom is sad, it's undoubtedly the right thing to do.

~ma to your Mom, SH. I know those decisions are tough, even when made for the best reasons.

We know that Cargo Tunnel will be good for online shopping, mail delivery, garbage pickup and recycling, but there will likely be a lot more things that people figure out to do with it.

I really hope they have separate tunnels for garbage vs. food deliveries.

I've always thought that Leopold and Loeb were the inspiration for the movie.

It was. Or, really, the inspiration for the play which turned into the movie.

((((Lily and family))))

There are certainly better reasons to have him all tied up.

Word. And even THEN I wouldn't start blabbing my evil plan. We'd have a tortured love where he'd know in his heart he should turn me in to Commisioner Gordon but I'd give him enough plausible denyability to delude himself that maybe I wasn't stealing diamonds and stuff.

Today's xkcd is fun: Haiku Proof

It was. Or, really, the inspiration for the play which turned into the movie.

oh, right, it was a play first, I think I knew that.

While it isn't Rope, Compulsion is an even more thinly veiled movie version of Leopold and Loeb. And I mean very thinly veiled. Orson Welles plays the Clarence Darrow role.

I wrote a paper on Leopold and Loeb for my 8th-grade history class, my first research paper complete with footnotes, etc. (My teacher marked me down for using the Joliet Herald News instead of the Chicago Tribune for my main source.)

One of the things that I find really creepy about that case was that Loeb (the more amoral of the two) was willing to consider using his own cousin as their victim before they decided on Bobby Franks.

There's a book about the case published earlier this year that is really comprehensive and well-written: For the Thrill of It.

So, yeah, everyone at work told me point blank that I looked like shit and harassed me until I finally went home two hours later. Going to eat food and crawl into bed and die. Then I'll tear through every last unopened box and track down mister doctor man's number.

Leopold and Loeb inspired many movies.

Leopold and Loeb have been the inspiration for many works in film, theater and fiction, such as the 1929 play Rope by Patrick Hamilton, which served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. In 1956, Meyer Levin revisited the case in his novel Compulsion, a fictionalized version of the actual events in which the names of the pair were changed to "Steiner and Strauss." Three years later, the novel was made into a film of the same name. Never the Sinner, a theatrical recreation of the Leopold and Loeb trial, was written by John Logan in 1988.

Other works inspired by the case include Tom Kalin's more openly gay-themed 1992 film Swoon; Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games, with an American shot-for-shot remake produced in 2008; Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers (2002); and Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story.