Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Criminal Inspirations: Mine That Cultural Divide

Another quick installment of what I hope you'll also find to be interesting and potentially fiction-inspiring crime stories.

Oldsters and whippersnappers often feel they occupy different worlds. Technologically, it may be true, though it seems to me that the operators of any machine all share some pretty stubborn human characteristics. Still, each generation re-charts its own cultural lodestars and supernovas, tending to regard those not only as sufficient, but frankly preferable to any ruling constellation of the moldy Before or inferior After. It's perfectly understandable (and wickedly amusing) that some undoubtedly damp-eared rascals were unaware of the ludicrousness of stealing Herman Munster's identity. I bet they laughed about the poor sucker's name, too.

1 comments:

Lois Karlin said...

Wow. How do you turn up these gems? I recently read a domestic thriller Here She Lies by Kate Pepper...about identity theft and its consequences. Scary stuff. But damp-eared rascals stealing Herman Munster's identity seem an exceptionally fine fit for a Hiaason caper!