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Even though I am the oldest, I've always been in the middle, stuck between my sisters like the fulcrum of a teeter-totter, keeping each safely balanced. Perhaps it became a habit, and in the years since I escaped home I've brought the role on myself, rather than what it seems: the noose of the inescapable circle of fate.
The thing is, I never see it coming. I always believe that I am on the cusp of being able to live out in the open, and say what I really mean. Twenty-one years ago, when I was a breath under eighteen, I got married to change everything. I had to get out from between Madalaine, born after me, and Ellie, the youngest, who's like a fern frond that withered unaccountably before it ever unfurled. I also got married to get out from between Mama and Daddy, who needed a full-time mediator to decide who had failed to pay the electric bill on time, whose fault it was that the Dodge on the street was slumped over a flat tire or the butcher had given Mama a soup bone with no meat on it again. I thought it would all be different, that I could make life be different.
I was fourth in my class. I could have found a way to college or at least to work in some faraway city, instead of marrying Wayne in such a misguided hurry, and my life would have turned on a different dime. In fairness, nobody told me I couldn't, but nobody said I could, and nobody from my family ever had. The idea was as likely as a rosebush springing up in the desert on its own. So I've worked as a secretary for Dr. Hays for the whole of my married life, and watched his patients grow up or grow old, be newly born or newly dying. Of course, I tend to hear the suffering parts of their lives, and I remind myself that surely they have ice-cream sundaes and birthdays and Christmas mornings, too. "Toughen up, Lydia,"
Dr. Hays said to me when he found me crying over Mrs. Kinsey's spina bifida baby the same day Mr. Davis, who was a bird-watcher, had a stroke that took away his vision.
He has a point. I know what life can dish up for breakfast: my own brother, the real oldest child, is retarded. I call myself the oldest, because I was expected to be in charge and to take care of my sisters and Charles. Someone might think that Charles was what I wanted to escape, but that's not true. He is the nicest and happiest member of our family. Mama fusses about him, and Ellie fusses at him every hour of the day while she carries her basset hound around and mourns for Elvis, but Charles just gives everyone his lolling smile and lets them go on. He claps with Vanna for every letter of Wheel of Fortune. Of course, Mama does, too, so maybe that doesn't prove anything about Charles. Madalaine married early, like me, but Mama and Daddy have their oldest and youngest living with them forever in their eye-blink of a house in the part of Maysfield for people who are poor but white. The truth is, I have no idea who takes care of whom: Ellie complains like a squeaky door; Mama hardly budges from her chair; and Daddy disappears to the Toyota plant—Kentucky's notion of hope—while Charles watches television. They all live in the same house we grew up in and have canned soup and grilled-cheese sandwiches for supper every night. There's nothing I can do about it except feel bad, but I do that really well.
I should have climbed on happiness's coattails and stayed on them when I had the chance even though Wayne Merrill was a good man when I married him, and still is. No woman in her right mind could take that away from him. So what if he parks himself in a La-Z-Boy and falls asleep holding the remote control every night after supper? I started taking some classes when Claire got into high school, and I read in our bedroom at night while Wayne flips between channels in the living room. He's never said a harsh word to me. He deserves to be loved.
When I first got this same fifteen-point diamond that I've worn ever since on my left hand, God gave me as clear a sign as he did Moses that I was going to pay for being in such a hurry to get out. Wayne took off for two weeks to the south of Kentucky to help his uncle, who'd broken his leg, oversee a tobacco harvest. While he was gone, I stayed in Maysfield and had the thought—so distinctly that it was like someone else's voice in my head—that if he didn't come back it would be all right with me. I'd hardly dated anyone else, and it occurred to me that I might like to, and I even knew who I wouldn't mind going to the diner with. Tommy McDonald, with his flashy grin and confident swagger, had honked and waved mightily at me the previous week.
Maybe it wouldn't have made any difference, though. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish one man from another. After I was married, some mornings I'd start to call Wayne Daddy, when I saw him in his coveralls, silently wolfing his bacon, eggs and buttered toast before he pecked me on the cheek and left for the plant an hour before it was time for me to get to the office. His hands are big and chapped like Daddy's, and his face has the same flat expression as the other men's. He's grown himself a beard to hide behind, but it makes him stand out instead because it has a reddish tint that doesn't match his hair—an ordinary medium-brown mixing itself into early gray—or the various mix of his unruly eyebrows. Another man, one I thought was unique, left me just as weighted with worry and alone in my own skin, so, in the end, maybe it would have made no difference at all who I'd married.
What turned out to matter was Claire.
"Et voilà," I say sarcastically as I detail the insertion of a new roll of toilet paper onto the holder with slow, exaggerated motions. I've come out of the bathroom to prove my point that once again he's left it empty. He looks up from the television more confused than wounded. He wouldn't talk to me this way, and I'm often ashamed of myself for doing it, an emotion that's on the losing side of a bout with irritation. Of course, he doesn't know what "et voilà" means. I wouldn't either except that I've been surreptitiously studying Claire's French books since her freshman year. My pronunciation is likely off even though I practice with the section called Say It Right! Hints in each chapter. Maybe even Claire wouldn't know what I was saying, though she probably wouldn't miss the intonation. She's enough like me that his ways get on her nerves, and in a smaller way then, I'm in the middle and arguing with her about the merits of what makes me crazy. Wayne's a good father, though, and after it seemed that we'd not have a child, I know that to him she wears the wings and sneakers of Love, even if he's not the sort to display it on his face or speak of it.
I've been addressing invitations to Claire's graduation party to members of his family and mine, and twice Wayne's asked, "Did you send one to Uncle Jimmy?" Another time he said, "What are we getting Claire?" though he's a man who for seventeen years has never known what we were giving her for Christmas until the paper and ribbons were in tatters on the floor. So I know that her graduation next month is getting to him as much as to me, but we'll never speak of it. I certainly can't talk to either of my sisters. Ellie's not had a child, though she thinks her dog is just as important and says she'd die to save him like any mother. Madalaine is so bitter about Bill leaving her that nobody else can dare to have a care of her own.
I knew a man named John Rutledge, the type to replace the empty cardboard roll, who talked and read books and told jokes within jokes, tossing up funny lines one after another like some brilliant juggler. It was partly that that drew me to him and partly that he made me believe I was a beautiful woman, nothing like what I'd seen in any mirror, even the ones that can be expected to dissemble, like that of a mother's eye. My hair was a lush, shining espresso so rich it circled around both auburn and black, my eyes much bluer, my face less round, my nose straighter, my breasts bigger. When we were apart, I never once thought that I'd be all right if I never saw him again.
It was by loving John that I knew I had never loved Wayne, and that's the only piece of knowledge I can't forgive John for giving me. But, then, maybe I ruined him, too. He was married; I was married. He gave me up before I gave him up, but in the end maybe the order didn't matter, regardless of how much I thought it did. We let each other go. It was the right thing to do, but I still miss him.
I think of sending John one of these invitations, but it is pure whimsy. The impulse comes from the notion that I could tell him that this is killing me. "John," I'd say into the softness of his sweater aching with the mixture of his cologne and cigarettes, "she has been all I've had for so long, the point of everything. When she walks across that stage, raising her is over. She's going away to college. What's left? Look at her, fair-skinned and tall, her hair dark like mine, but those big, deep brown eyes instead of my ordinary blue ones. She's what I wanted to be. I used to wear my hair the exact way she does when I was her age, can you believe that?" I wrap a short curl around my finger and pull on it hard when I think of him.
"Your eyes are not ordinary, Lydia. How can you say that? You're nuts, you know? I love your eyes. They're like patches of sky in October, you know how the sky turns that pure blue? Periwinkle, I think that's the color." How could a woman not fall in love with a man who will use the word periwinkle?
I can imagine John chiding me that way because he did once, when I said I was just a secretary. "You can take classes and get a degree, you can figure out what you want to be on your own. You really don't have to work for Dr. Hays until one of you dies, you know," he said. That's what I tell myself when I wonder what will become of me, but today I imagine John saying it again, telling me I will be okay when Claire leaves. It's easier to believe that way.
"Idon't see why Lydia keeps inviting me to these things," Ellie says, examining the mail scattered on the kitchen table. "Was it Daddy brought the mail in? "Cause sometimes Charles drops something. Is this all there was? She knows I can't leave Presley. You and Daddy'll be at the party, I suppose, so there won't be anyone to watch him." A Hallmark invitation, Please Come printed in fancy script above a bouquet of bright balloons and a mortarboard hat, flutters from her hand back onto the table as she tosses it aside. Dust motes float like separate loose irritants in the late afternoon light as it enters the kitchen beneath the yellowed shade, half-pulled and revealing a small tear and several brown spots.
"Take him with you," Mama says from her recliner in the patchwork living room. "You always do."
"Well, I'm not going to this time. He hates being tied up, and Madalaine's kids tease him. It's not fair. Is it Presley?" Ellie's tone becomes a tender wheedle as she bends to scratch the loose skin behind the basset's ears. She follows her mother's voice into the living room in three steps. "I don't ask her to tie her kids up when they come here."
"Might not be a bad ider," Mama chuckles in a conspiratorial tone. The flesh of her bare arms emerging from her sleeveless shirt is enormous and dimpled, almost luminous in the darker corner of the room. A safety pin holds the top of her blouse together where a button is missing. Ellie is torn between correcting Mama's pronunciation and capitalizing on a rare chance to criticize Mama's prize grandchildren openly.
"She really ought to teach them better manners. All that roughhouse and hollering jangles my nerves. Presley is much better behaved."
"Presley's all right for a dog." Mama lands heavily on the last word and draws it out. She loudly blows her nose, its bulbous tip exaggerated with redness, and then awkwardly tosses the crumpled tissue toward a paper grocery bag open near her chair. It misses, tumbling on the floor by several others.
"Shut up Mama. He has feelings, you know. And by the way, the word is pronounced idea."
Charles, intent on the television, laughs from the couch and claps for The Price Is Right. His glasses are halfway down his nose again, his graying hair askew as he chews the Juicy Fruit gum that Lydia brought him. Usually Ellie takes it away and chews it herself because Charles leaves a sticky mess of it on every table in the house, but Lydie has started tucking it in his pants pocket when Ellie isn't looking. Then he gets to have it unless Ellie takes his pants to wash them, and whatever was left of the pack glues his pocket together in the dryer. Well, Charles can just wear them that way, Ellie's decided. Too damn bad. It should hardly be her job to check Charles's pockets with everything else she has to do.
"Thaaz righ, idea, idea, ider. Seventeen thousan' dollar." Mama ignores Charles and narrows her eyes at Ellie. "So says you, Miss Fancy Pants High Horse." She holds up a wrist and flounces it. Her layered chin rearranges itself against the bottom of her neck.
Ellie is disgusted as she often is. "Charles, for God's sake. This is a stupid rerun. You've seen it." Then to Mama, she changes the subject, anticipating a chance to win back the high ground. "Did you remember to tell Lydia that she has to take Charles to the doctor Tuesday at four?"
"You take 'em."
"I have told you over and over that in the first place I have to work, and..."
"Lydie works later 'n you," Mama taunts.
"Lydia works for someone who will let her off just whenever she wants. And you know I can't drive on Dixie Highway. Those turning lanes, off this way, then that way...I can't, you know that. Why do we have to have this conversation every other month?"
Mama snorts. "Git me a Coke, will you?" She says git deliberately, Ellie can tell, knowing how it irritates her daughter.
"Get up and get it yourself." Ellie's retaliation feels cheap, but still she puts her shoulders back and walks from the living room to her bedroom instead of into the kitchen, where the linoleum is cracked and chipped down to the black glue in spots and two of the stove burners haven't worked for three or four years. Ellie's bedroom is festooned in pink with white gilded furniture that she bought and paid for herself because it put her in mind of Lisa Marie's room in Graceland.
"That dog's about as fat as Elvis when he keeled," Mama shoots just before the slam of Ellie's door tallies her bull's-eye.
"Charles," she says, then repeats, louder. "Charles! Get me a Coke, will ya?"
"Seventeen thousan' dollar..." he says without moving.


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MIAMI — A North Florida man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after authorities say he beat a man and a woman to death with a baseball bat and then photographed their bodies.
DENTON, Texas — An official at the University of North Texas says a man has been found dead at a campsite on the school's campus where Occupy Denton protesters have been gathering.
ISLAMABAD — Battered by Pakistani military operations and U.S. drone strikes, the once-formidable Pakistani Taliban has splintered into more than 100 smaller factions, weakened and running short of cash, according to security officials, analysts and tribesmen from the insurgent heartland.
THANKS, STEPPERS!: Because I'm writing this on Sunday morning, just a few hours before the ABH Steppers take the stage to kick off the Stomp Out Domestic Violence step-dance show to benefit Project Safe, I don't know whether our team has won either of the two awards — Audience Favorite and Judges' Favorite — that were up for grabs.
Now that the initial — and predictably for Athens, reflexive — reaction to the possibility of a 90,000-square-foot Walmart coming to downtown Athens has subsided, it appears that there might be a move toward constructive dialogue on the proposed mixed-use development where the discount mega-retailer could be an anchor tenant.
There won't be any sugar falling from the sky for the Georgia football team this bowl season, but how about some bloomin' onion? The Bulldogs are heading to the Outback Bowl in Tampa to play Michigan State on Jan. 2 at 1 p.m.
ATLANTA - For the better part of a couple of quarters, Georgia outplayed No.
Georgia's bowl trip is set.
HOUSTON — Rookie T.J. Yates threw a touchdown pass in his first NFL start, Arian Foster rushed for 111 yards and Houston overcame another hamstring injury to Andre Johnson to beat Atlanta 17-10 today.
RUSHING OFFENSE: D- WHAT WENT RIGHT: Carlton Thomas and Isaiah Crowell had a couple of nice first-half runs. WHAT WENT WRONG: Georgia could not sustain any semblance of momentum to make LSU's defense guess.
ATLANTA - Getting to the Southeastern Conference championship game after an 0-2 start that followed the first losing season in 14 years will probably be the legacy of this year's Georgia football team. Winning an SEC title won't be a part of it.
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|Reviews for The Sun and The Moon
| rowenaiscool chapter 7 . 12/15/2015
THIS is how Avatar, The Last Bender should have finished! Thank goodness for people like you who are always there with a fanfic on hand to satisfy my imagination lol
| 9linn8 chapter 7 . 7/30/2015
Holy la this is utterly beautiful. I love it so much
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Great story, I truly enjoy your alternative view on characters. Hope to see more in the future.
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That was awesome! Thank you. Wish that had been the series ending too:) always thought they could do more with Zuko and Katara. I like her and Aang just as friends. Toph and Aang would have been perfect for each other.
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Can you do an epilogue? This was so good!
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There ya go! A nice completion! I would work on some spelling issues such as the difference between his (possessive) and he's (contraction of he is) both sound the same but the spelling changes a lot. The other one I found was straight (as in straight as a board) instead of strength (able to hold or carry). Other than that I liked the conclusion!
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The F? Okay, I think there needs to be a prequal thing going on cause I don't know what's going on. Did any events of the series actually happen?
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I like the sibling interaction. This was very good.
| Girl with the Dragon Heart chapter 6 . 5/13/2014
I really like how Zuko has changed over the course of this story - not going to lie, I hated him for a while at the beginning. Can't wait to see where this story goes!
| patty cake rocks chapter 6 . 5/12/2014
Awesome chapter
| sasusakufan2357 chapter 5 . 2/22/2014
I can't wait for more! I hope you update soon :) keep up the amazing work!
| Pentastic chapter 5 . 1/31/2014
This is really well written. You really seem to have a handle on the characters. They are different but in ways that make sense under the different circumstances you have created. It kept me captivated. I am sure you realize there are a number of typos which you may want to edit at some point but your writing is solid. I hope to read more from you.
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- almanso
- Reviews: 4
Segorbe hostel: Segorbe, a little piece of Spain in Salento
I spent 2 nights here because it was recommended by VT member.
It is managed by two persons, one of them from valencia in spain.
They were really nice; they even dry our cloths when we came back from the trekking in valle del cocora. Otherwise i would have dressed with all my cloths soaked!
The breakfast was ok, some orange juice, cofee, fruit and some bread... Nothing extraordinary, but enough.
If i ever go back, i'll repeat.
In the center of the village. Opposite to a very nice and informal restaurant, where i ate some amazing pizzas and fish soup.
- richiecdisc
- Reviews: 5956
The Plantation House: the place for good reason
As a general rule, we had steered clear of hostels when traveling around Colombia for the five weeks we had already been in the country. Though we had started out by staying in the country's most noted hostel, Bogota's Platypus, and did a brief stop at Mompos' Casa Amarilla, we had found budget hotels catering more to Colombians to be not only nicer but also better value. They were generally more quiet and with fewer backpackers, easier to keep to yourself when you wanted to. But as we headed to Salento, it was tough to avoid wanting to stay at The Plantation House. Reports were excellent and after a fun experience on La Ciudad Perdida group trek, we decided to give the hostel scene another go. We were glad we did as The Plantation House was everything it was said to be and provided us with a great place to stay as well take photos of what appeared to be a resident motmot!
The old wooden building has a lot of charm and is small enough to feel really cozy. There were times when it was a little noisy when we went to bed but it died down earlier enough to not be a real problem. We were going to bed pretty early to be fair. The people staying at the hostel were very friendly and a nice group that was easy to get along with. It didn't have the "can you top this" feeling you can get when sitting around with a group on this kind of circuit. The room was not very big but not overly cramped and was nicely if simply furnished. The communal baths were clean enough and featured tons of hot water. The kitchen was kept pretty clean too and a real plus was a fairly steady supply of fairly strong coffee that was free. There were nice places to sit on the veranda and this was the place's real plus as the grounds were quite lush with many birds. We spotted a gorgeous motmot both of our mornings there, who was a real poser too.
The owner is an English guy married to a Colombian woman and they have the cutest little girl who so obviously has her Daddy wrapped around her finger, very endearing. They do tours of their coffee plantation as well as organize things further afield but in no way are they pushy in "selling tours." A really pleasant place to stay and can see why people wind up staying longer than planned.
We paid 37000 COP ($18.50) per night for our double room. You can definitely find cheaper in town but we felt it was a fair value room when taking in the overall ambiance.
- pipedream
- Reviews: 2
Hostal Ciudad de Segorbe: Great place to stay in Salento, Colombia
The Hostel we were going to stay at in Salento was full, so the owner took us to this charming Hostal. It's an old, two-story colonial building with an interior patio and upstairs balcony. There are approximately 8 rooms, most with double queen size comfortable beds and private bathrooms. The rates in March 2010 were approx. $ 30.- US for a double with private bathroom including a delicious breakfast on the patio.
The owner is from Spain and was incredibly helpful in giving us information about the area. The patio was a great place to hang out for a cold beer. The ground floor also had a wine bar with tapas.
The hostal is located on the main street leading up to the square at Calle 5, N. 4-06.
Email: email@example.com
Tel. (57) (6) 759 37 94
Cell: (57)320 283 69 73
Highly recommendable.
Extremely friendly and helpful owners. Lovely views from upstairs over the town and the mountains. Cozy patio. Great breakfasts. Centrally located. Great value for the price.
- casaaltocoronel
- Reviews: 1
Casa Hotel Alto del coronel: Casa Hotel Alto del coronel
The hotel it's great!
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Great views and the attention was good!
- theearl
- Reviews: 3
Republika de Artistas Hostel-Art Gallery-Loft: Salento, Quindio, Colombia, Best Hostel by far
The place to stay in Salento, nice, clean, stylish, superb breakfast menu included with the dorms fee and a very warm and artistic atmosphere created by the spanish father and son that runs the place Joseph and Mihail
Great location, expectacular art works exhibited, memorable breakfast, impressive Warmness by the owners and their staff
- theearl
- Reviews: 3
Republika de Artistas Hostel-Art Gallery-Loft: Salento, Quindio, Colombia, Best Hostel by far
It is hard to describe in few words, but our stay at the Republika de Artistas Hostel Art Gallery in Salento, Quindio, Colombia, was just memorable. A nice liitle place with 2 dorms fitting 6 large and comfortable beds each right in the heart of Salento, with an incredible breakfast menu, the best i have had for years in a very artistist but family style accodomation. The place to be in Salento if you need to be close to everywhere.
Very clean, quite, stylish and warm.
- jonkorns
- Reviews: 1
Plantation House: Worst Hostel in South America
Never stay here! The room was filthy, the sheets were grimy and we all left with multiple bites from the bugs which infested the rooms and the beds. The room constantly smelt like raw sewerage from the faulty septic tank. Plus the hostel is far overpriced compared to the town and it is much further away from the action than the other, much better and more reasonably priced hostels. On top of all of this, the slimy English owner lied to us about the services offered by competing locals for coffee plantation tours - and they actually ended up being much better than him.
- mircaskirca
- Reviews: 1091
Las Palmas: Guest House
I actually made a reservation in Plantation House. But on my arrival they told me that all private rooms were occupied and they can only offer me to stay in dorm room, which I did not like. I arrived there in the rain, completely wet, and needed my own space more than anything. Then Cristina, the owner, phoned to another guest house close by to ask if they had any rooms available. Five minutes later their son came with a big umbrella to help me with my bag and delivered me to my new 'temporary home', Las Palmas.
This guest house is located on Calle 6 that leads up to the main plaza. It has only a couple of rooms, all with bathroom en suite. I had a big room with three comfortable beds and TV. There was a terrace at the top of the house. Most of the nights I was the only guest. The price of the room was 40.000 COP. Since I stayed there for four nights she gave me discount.
I did not expect that would be so cold and rainy for almost the whole week so I run out of clean 'warm clothes'. I asked señora Rosmira (the owner) if she could do the laundry for me which she immediately did. The problem was that because of the rain the clothes did not get dry. So she ironed them, one by one, as I needed them. She did not charge anything. That was very nice from her :)
- MalenaN
- Reviews: 5192
The Plantation House
The Plantation House is a nice place to stay at in Salento. The hostel now consist of two old farmhouses on different sides of a road. There are dorms and there are private rooms, a few with bathroom. I stayed in a room without bathroom (in the first house) and paid 30 000 pesos a night (July 2008). The room was simple but I liked it very much and the bed was very comfortable. The hostel is situated in the end of the town so it is quiet and from the hammocks in the end of the garden you have a beautiful view over the valley. The owners Tim and Cristina can give you a lot of information, Cristina in Spanish and Tim also in English. There is a kitchen and free coffee. You will also find games, books to exchange, a computer and a refrigerator with beer.
It is nice and relaxing to sit on the porch after a day out, but it can be a bit cold so put on a sweater.
To go to the Plantation House you should get off the bus at the Fire Station, just as you enter town. Then take right, and right again. It is about 100 metres to the hostel from the Fire Station.
- rambling_rose
- Reviews: 44
Plantation House: friendly hostel
Simple but comfortable rooms and a junglely garden - this is on the edge of the town but feels like you're in the middle of nowhere. Very quiet, there are private rooms as well as dorms split between three buildings.
- StephanB
- Reviews: 126
La Posada del Cafe: Salento's "Bed and Breakfast"
The Posada del Cafe, located in the heart of town, was one of our highlights in Colombia. The owner, Maria-Elena, made our stay fantastic. She babysat our daughter while we hiked one day, took us on another hike to a friends private house where a beautiful botanical garden was located, and gave us all the information we needed for our time in Salento. There are only 5 or 6 rooms, but they beautifully decorated with comfortable beds. There is a very nice hostel in town that is very popular with backpackers, but if you want to pamper yourself, this is the place to stay. We paid about US $30, which for Colombia was on the upper end for accommodation.
Wonderful owner, beautiful inner garden, very quiet.
- colombiantraveler
- Reviews: 61
Local Places to Stay
In Salento, 5 stars Hotels are not an option. On the other hand, houses or local properties can be rented, and some of them also have horses, lakes where you can practice fishing. Don't expect luxury kind of things, everything has a colonial style, but still cosy.
Julian Clavijo
- morgr
- Reviews: 258
Hospedaje: Decent Place
This hospedaje (without a name) is in a families house, and is fairly cozy. The front door is locked at night, and they don't give you a key, so you have to wake them up....which I felt kinda bad doing. Hot water.
Spanish only, no English spoken.
Double room : 30,000pesos
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Lopburi Province
Lopburi City Gate, from old to new city
Map of Thailand highlighting Lop Buri Province
|Lop Buri
|• Governor
|Chatchai Phromloet (since October 2009)
|• Total
|6,199.8 km2 (2,393.8 sq mi)
|Area rank
|Ranked 37th
|Population (2014)
|• Total
|• Rank
|Ranked 30th
|• Density
|120/km2 (320/sq mi)
|• Density rank
|Ranked 38th
|0.742 (medium) (35th)
|Time zone
|Area code(s)
|ISO 3166 code
|Vehicle registration
Lopburi (Thai: ลพบุรี, rtgs: Lop Buri, pronounced [lóp bū.rīː]) is a province in the central region of Thailand. The province is subdivided into 11 administrative districts, and Mueang Lopburi District is the capital. With over 750,000 people, the province is Thailand's 37th largest area and 38th most populous. There are six neighboring provinces, Phetchabun, Nakhon Sawan, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya, Saraburi, Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum, Singburi, and Nakhon Sawan.
Lopburi is a significant province historically, where many historical structures, artifacts, and prehistoric settlements have been discovered. In the past, Lopburi was called by the name 'Lavo, that is, the kingdom had been ruled by an absolute monarch.
Known as Lavo during much of its history, Lopburi probably dates to prehistoric times.[1] The name Lavo originated in the Dvaravati period (6th–11th century CE). The conquering Khmer would build many impressive temples in the city during its rule. Lopburi may even have liberated itself for a time, as it sent independent embassies to China in 1115 and 1155. In 1289 it sent another embassy to China, but soon became part of the Thai kingdom of Sukhothai and later Ayutthaya.
During the Ayutthaya period, King Ramathibodi I sent Phra Ramesuan (later King Ramesuan) as the Uparaja to reign in Lopburi. In 1665 King Narai the Great ordered a new palace built on the east bank of the Lopburi River and made Lopburi the second capital of the country, as Ayutthaya was threatened by the Dutch. After King Narai died, the city was almost abandoned and fell into ruin.
In 1856 King Mongkut of the Chakri dynasty ordered King Narai's palace to be renovated. The city finally regained its importance in 1938, when Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram chose Lopburi to be the largest military base in Thailand.
Lopburi is on the east side of the Chao Phraya River valley, between the Lopburi River and Pa Sak Rivers. Thirty percent of the area of the province, including most of Tha Wung district, the southwestern parts of Mueang Lopburi and Ban Mi districts are a very low alluvial plain. The other 70 percent is mixed plains and hills, with the Phetchabun Mountains forming the eastern boundary of the province towards the Khorat Plateau.
|Climate data for Lop Buri (1981–2010)
|Average high °C (°F)
|Average low °C (°F)
|Average rainfall mm (inches)
|Average rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
|Average relative humidity (%)
|Source: Thai Meteorological Department (Normal 1981-2010), (Rainfall mm, Avg. rainy days 1961-1990)
The provincial seal shows Vishnu in front of the Khmer temple Phra Prang Sam Yod.[2]
The escutcheon of Lopburi shows Phra Narai and in the background Phra Prang Sam Yod, the "Sanctuary with the Three Towers". It refers to King Narai who in 1664 fortified the city to be used as an alternative capital when Ayutthaya was threatened by a Dutch naval blockade.[3]
The provincial tree as well as the provincial flower is the bullet wood.[4]
The slogan of the province is National treasures of King Narai's palace and Phra Kan Shrine, famous Prang Sam Yot, city of Din So Phong Marl, well-known Pa Sak Cholasit Dam and golden land of King Narai the Great.
Administrative divisions[edit]
The province is subdivided into 11 districts (amphoe). The districts are further subdivided into 124 sub-districts (tambon) and 1,110 villages (muban).
- Thepsatri Rajabhat University
- Kasetsart University, Lopburi Campus
- Ramkhamhaeng University, Lopburi Campus
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- Wat Sao Thong Thong (วัดเสาธงทอง) The temple's shrine hall is believed to have originally been constructed as a religious site for another religion. A map drawn by a French craftsman shows the area being a Persian neighborhood, suggesting that it may have been an Islamic ceremonial site.[5]
- King Narai National Museum (พิพิธภัณฑสถานแห่งชาติสมเด็จพระนารายณ์) was established in 1923.[6] The four buildings display antiquities:
- Phiman Mongkut Pavilion (พระที่นั่งพิมานมงกุฎ) Prehistoric artefacts discovered in archaeological sites along the Chao Phraya River.
- Chanthara Phisan Hall (พระที่นั่งจันทรพิศาล) Traditional Thai architecture housing the history, politics, society, culture, and biography of King Narai.
- Phra Prathiap Buildings or Central Thai Lifestyle Buildings (หมู่ตึกพระประเทียบ) (อาคารชีวิตไทยภาคกลาง) Exhibitions on central Thai daily life, houses, tools, fishing and farming utensils, and local handicrafts.
- Nang Yai Museum (พิพิธภัณฑ์หนังใหญ่) presents shadow plays on the Ramakian story of Nang Yai.
- Wichayen House (บ้านหลวงรับราชทูต หรือ บ้านหลวงวิชาเยนทร์) It served as the residence for the envoys paying a courtesy call on King Narai. The important thing is the Christian church, whose plan and design is in a European style but with the entrance and window facades in the Ruean Kaeo style.[7]
- The City Pillar Shrine or Lukson Shrine (ศาลหลักเมือง หรือ ศาลลูกศร) Prince Damrong Rajanupab wrote about this shrine in the legend of Lopburi that "it has been assumed that the city pillar was the arrow of Phra Ram that has become stone,..."[8]
- Phra Prang Sam Yot (พระปรางค์สามยอด) The compound consists of three prangs linked to one another by a corridor. In the reign of King Narai, Phra Prang Sam Yot was renovated as a Buddhist temple.[9] Inside is enshrined a sandstone Buddha image in the subduing Mara posture, presenting the early Ayutthaya style of art. At present, the image is located outdoors.
- Lop Buri Zoo (สวนสัตว์ลพบุรี) The Special Warfare Unit, which took charge of the place, cooperated with other authorities such as various clubs, traders, and the public to renovate the zoo to be a place for relaxation and source of knowledge on animals and plants.[10]
- Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat (วัดพระศรีรัตนมหาธาตุ) Inside the wihan is a Buddha image on a masonry base known as "Chukkachi". "Prang Rai"— satellite prangs—are on the northwest side. At every corner of its star-fruit shape, there is a stucco relief of Thep Phanom, angel in adoration, turning their faces in every direction.
- Phra Narai Ratchaniwet (พระนารายณ์ราชนิเวศน์) King Narai had this palace constructed in 1666 to be his royal residence in Lopburi.[11] The structures within the compound can be divided into two groups in accordance with the period of construction. Structures built during the reign of King Narai include:
- Dusit Sawan Thanya Maha Prasat Hall (พระที่นั่งดุสิตสวรรค์ธัญญมหาปราสาท) A throne hall in a mixture of Thai and French architecture. Originally, it was an audience hall with a pointed top in the mondop shape. This was the place where King Narai received Chevalier de Chaumont and French envoys in 1685.
- Chanthara Phisan Hall (พระที่นั่งจันทรพิศาล) was used as an audience hall. At present, the hall is an exhibition hall, presenting the biography of King Narai and the fine arts of Ayutthaya and Rattanakosin.
- Suttha Sawan Hall (พระที่นั่งสุทธาสวรรค์) Private residence of King Narai in the inner section of the royal palace. King Narai died in this hall on 11 July 1688.
- Phrachao Hao Building (ตึกพระเจ้าเหา) A Thai-style brick building with a laterite base. However, at present, all that remains are the walls, windows, and doors of the Ruean Kaeo arch with the Simha or lion base whose patterns can still be seen.
- Reception Hall for Foreign Visitors (ตึกรับรองแขกเมือง) It reflects French architectural style. This building was at the centre of the park, which was divided into a grid. Around the building was a moat.
- Phra Khlang Supharat (The Twelve Royal Storage Buildings) (พระคลังศุภรัตน์ (หมู่ตึกสิบสองท้องพระคลัง)) Between the water tank and the Reception Hall for Foreign Visitors. It is believed to have been a place to store royal goods and treasures.
- Water Tank (อ่างเก็บน้ำหรือถังเก็บน้ำประปา) Constructed of brick with a specially-thick wall at its edge. Underground lies a baked-clay pipe to distribute water from Thale Chup Son and Sap Lek Reservoir to the buildings and halls.
- Elephant Stables (โรงช้างหลวง) Most have been ruined with only 10 foundations remaining. Elephants living in these stables were ridden by King Narai, royal family members, and high-ranking aristocrats.
Structures built during the reign of King Rama IV include: Phiman Mongkut Pavilion (หมู่พระที่นั่งพิมานมงกุฎ) was constructed at the command of King Rama IV in 1862 as his private residence when he came to renovate Lopburi.
Phra Prathiap Buildings (หมู่ตึกพระประเทียบ) Composed of two single storey buildings and a group of eight two-storey brick buildings, constructed for being residential quarters for court officials who attended King Rama V when he visited Lopburi.
Thim Dap or Royal Guards Residence (ทิมดาบ หรือที่พักของทหารรักษาการณ์) Passing through the entrance to the middle court, the buildings on both sides of the lawn were the barracks of the royal guards of the palace.
Prang Khaek (เทวสถานปรางค์แขก) The oldest monument of Lopburi: three prangs, made of bricks with no adjoining corridors as at Prang Sam Yot.
San Phra Kan (ศาลพระกาฬ) An ancient Khmer sanctuary, constructed of laterite with a high base. Therefore, it was also called "San Sung" (a high shrine).
Wat Nakhon Kosa (วัดนครโกษา) Within the compound of the temple are ancient remains of a grand chedi of the Dvaravati period with a prang of the Lopburi period around the 12th century at the front. Two large images of God transformed into Buddha images were discovered and are now kept in the Somdet Phra Narai National Museum.
Wat San Paulo (วัดสันเปาโล) A Jesuit church, constructed in the reign of King Narai. At present, only a side of the wall and an observatory remain.
Wat Mani Chonlakhan (วัดมณีชลขัณฑ์) A strange-looking chedi, similar to those of the Chiang Saen (Lanna) style. Within the compound of the temple stands a bodhi tree, planted by King Rama V.
Wat Tong Pu (วัดตองปุ) In the past, it was a gathering place of the Thai army. There is an ancient object which is the only one remaining in Thailand which is a traditional shower or bathing device for monks and Buddha images, called the bathing fountain.
Wat Kawitsararam Ratchaworawihan (วัดกวิศรารามราชวรวิหาร) It is said that this temple was the site of the ceremony to drink an oath of allegiance. The principal Buddha image is in the posture of subduing Mara in the U Thong-style, while the mural paintings are of a floral design.
Wat Choeng Tha (วัดเชิงท่า) Originally called Wat Tha Kwian because it was a terminal for product-transport carts, "kwian", to the pier in front of the temple. Inside the compound of the temple lie significant buildings which had been constructed from the end of the Ayutthaya Period until the Rattanakosin Period.
Sophon Sin Museum (พิพิธภัณฑ์หอโสภณศิลป์) Displays of the background of Buddhist monks, the Dhamma, and the Buddha, as well as the background of the temple itself in an exhibition on Buddhism.
Sa Kaeo (สระแก้ว) At the middle of the pond stands a structure similar to a gigantic candle on a large footed tray where symbols of each ministry were decorated around its edge.
Wat Chi Pa Sitaram (วัดชีป่าสิตาราม) Within the compound of the temple is a bell-shaped chedi representing Ayutthaya art.
Kraison Siharat Hall (พระที่นั่งไกรสรสีหราช) Commonly known as Phra Thinang Yen or Thale Chup Son Hall. This hall is another residence of King Narai. The hall is on an island surrounded by Thale Chup Son, which was once a large reservoir surrounded with a dam made of stone and cement.
Wat Yang Na Rangsi and Lop Buri Boat Museum (วัดยาง ณ รังสี และพิพิธภัณฑ์เรือพื้นบ้าน) Lopburi Boat Museum is at the temple sermon hall, constructed in 1927 on the bank of the Lopburi River. The hall was granted an award for Best Architectural Preservation in 1993. It reflects the rural Thai temple hall's style in central Thailand.
Tha Khae Scripture Hall (หอไตรวัดท่าแค) Dharma Scripture hall of the "Lao Lom" community. Normally, a scripture hall is constructed on high columns in a pond. However, the one at this temple is a wooden house with a cruciform plan located on high columns.
Ang Sap Lek (อ่างซับเหล็ก) A natural ancient reservoir. In 1977, Lopburi improved Ang Sap Lek to be a natural tourist attraction by building roads around the reservoir, planting trees, as well as, erecting a summer relaxation pavilion.
Wat Lai (วัดไลย์) There are remaining ancient stucco reliefs on the Jakata stories and the Buddha's life. Maitreya Bodhisattva's image is another object that has been highly respected by the people from the past. Besides, there are other objects such as an old wihan with slit windows, which is the architecture reflecting the early Ayutthaya style.
Khao Samo Khon (เขาสมอคอน) A mountain range which has been important historically. There are four important temples on this mountain range: Wat Bandai Sam Saen, Wat Tham Tako Phutthasopha, Wat Tham Chang Phueak, and Wat Khao Samo Khon.
Amphoe Ban Mi (อำเภอบ้านหมี่) Famous for Mudmi silk. Most of the locals are Thai Phuan who migrated from Laos around 130 years ago. They named their new settlement as "Ban Mi" after their former Laotian village.
Wat Thammikaram or Wat Khangkhao (วัดธรรมิการาม หรือ วัดค้างคาว) Mural paintings at the four sides of the ubosot depict the life of Buddha. The paintings incorporate Western techniques such as the shading of trees.
Wat Thong Khung Tha Lao (วัดท้องคุ้งท่าเลา) The entrance of the temple is in the shape of Hanuman with its mouth wide open, decorated with glass in distinctive colours.
Wat Nong Tao (Wat Phanit Thammikaram) (วัดหนองเต่า หรือ วัดพาณิชธรรมมิการาม) The ubosot on the back of a turtle, "tao", considered the symbol of the sub-district.
Wat Khao Wongkot (วัดเขาวงกต) There is a bat cave on the shoulder of the mountain above the ubosot. It is the largest bat cave in Lopburi, inside which live millions of bats. The bats' droppings generate an income for the wat of more than ten thousand baht a year.
Khao Wong Phrachan (เขาวงพระจันทร์) At the summit of Khao Wong Phrachan visitors can see the panoramic scenery below. Khao Wong Phrachan is the highest mountain in Lopburi.
Sunflower fields (ทุ่งทานตะวัน) Lopburi is the leading sunflower province. Some 200,000–300,000 rai are planted with sunflowers. They are usually in full bloom from November–January. Sunflower fields are scattered throughout Mueang District, Phatthana Nikhom District, and Chai Badan District.
Wat Phrom Rangsi (วัดพรหมรังษี) This temple has an ubosot with four porches. The bell-shape chedi is similar to the Phra Borommathat, a chedi containing a Buddha relic, in Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Pa Sak Jolasid Dam (เขื่อนป่าสักชลสิทธิ์) It is the longest clay-core dam in Thailand. The Pa Sak River Basin Museum presents information about nature and culture.
Ban Pong Manao Site Museum (พิพิธภัณฑ์เปิดบ้านโป่งมะนาว) A pre-historic archaeological site dating from around 2,500–3,000 years ago or the late-Ban Chiang Period. Thirteen ancient human skeletons were found here.
Khao Somphot Non-hunting Area (เขตห้ามล่าสัตว์ป่าเขาสมโภชน์) A high and steep limestone mountain range stretching along the southwestern direction, full of caves and cliffs. There are two plains in the valley and a plateau, with many spots of water seepage around the area, making it a significant watershed.
Sap Langka Wildlife Sanctuary (เขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่าซับลังกา) The significance of the area is that it is the source of the Lam Sonthi River, as well as, a source of food for wildlife. At present, there are still goat antelopes which are protected animals living in the sanctuary.
Special Warfare Command (หน่วยบัญชาการสงครามพิเศษ) (Mueang District) Demonstrations of how to survive in the forest, a 34-foot tower jump, parachute from a balloon, shooting, cliff climbing, and a military jungle tour. An Army Special Forces Museum displays photos, equipment, background, evolution and pictures of various activities of the special forces.
Military Camp A03 (หารค่าย A03) In Mueang District, at the entrance of the Sap Lek Reservoir, Khok Tum Sub-district. It is a complex activity centre, testing the spirit and military way of living such as jumping from the 34-foot tower, artificial cliff climbing, shooting, rope bridge climbing and canoeing.
Artillery Centre (ศูนย์การทหารปืนใหญ่) In Mueang District, are architecture created during the period of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram such as the Chato Building (Khao Nam Chon Command Headquarters), Pibulsongkram Building and Museum, Artillery Museum, the General Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena Museum, and the Botanical Garden.
Ananda Mahidol Hospital (โรงพยาบาลอานันทมหิดล) In Mueang District, is an exhibition hall displaying the biography of King Rama VIII at the Operation Building of the Ananda Mahidol Hospital. There are photos of the opening ceremony of the hospital on 6 January 1938.
Local products[edit]
- Din So Phong Village (หมู่บ้านดินสอพอง) Lopburi produces quality dinsophong, marl, of Thailand. It is a soft chalky dirt used as body powder or as a soil amendment. The source of production is at Hin Song Kon Village (by Khlong Chonlaprathan, around Bridge 6).
- Khai Khem Din So Phong (Marl salted egg) (ไข่เค็มดินสอพอง) To produce this salted egg, a mixture of marl, water, and salt is coated on an egg. The egg is preserved for a certain period of time. The egg is not too salty and can be cooked as khai wan, an egg poached in syrup, fried eggs, boiled eggs and other dishes. The most well-known dish cooked with this egg is stir fried salted egg with various spices, kaffir lime, and string beans.
- Metal Casting (Brass) (การหล่อโลหะ (ทองเหลือง)) Casts of brass Buddha images in various shapes and replicas of antiques.
- Khao Phra Ngam Diamond (เพชรเขาพระงาม) The gemstone of Lopburi. It is called hin khiao hanuman (quartz crystal). It is a semi-precious stone with clear transparent crystals, sometimes coloured. It can be polished for jewellery, like other gemstones, but at more reasonable prices.
- Mudmi Fabric (หมู่บ้านทอผ้ามัดหมี่) Mudmi is a tie-dyed fabric woven by the Thai Phuan people.
- Som fak (ส้มฟัก) Preserved fish, a combination of fish, salt, ground cooked rice, and pickled garlic, kneaded together and left to slightly ferment for three days.
- Pla som (ปลาส้ม) A preserved fish made from pla thapian, barb, whose scales are scraped off and its stomach cleaned. Then, salt is applied all over the fish, while cooked rice mixed with garlic is put into its stomach and left to ferment. It will be fried before eating, creating a mouth-watering smell and a slightly sour taste.
- Coconut jelly (วุ้นน้ำมะพร้าว) A well-known souvenir of Lopburi, produced as a dessert to be eaten with ice. The jelly is produced by fermenting coconut juice. In the fermentation process, white fungi float on the surface and gradually coalesce into a mushroom-like jelly, which will enlarge due to its fermentation. This jelly is called "coconut juice jelly mushroom" or "coconut jelly". The jelly is mixed with various flavours of syrup and bottled.
- Sandstone sculpture (หมู่บ้านแกะสลักหินทราย) Garden decor, Buddha images, stone boundary markers, and consecration marking balls for temples.
- Corn husks (ผลิตภัณฑ์จากเปลือกข้าวโพด) Produced in Phatthana Nikhom District, where a large amount of corn is planted. After the harvest, the corn husks will be dried in the sun, dyed, and fashioned into handicrafts such as flowers, dolls, key chains.
- King Narai Festival (งานแผ่นดินสมเด็จพระนารายณ์มหาราช) Organised in February every year to commemorate the good deeds of King Narai. There are various activities in the fair such as light and sound presentation, a demonstration of Thai lifestyle, Wang Narai Night, Thai games by Thai kids (Chuk, Klae, Ko, Pia), local entertainment, and booths offering local products.[12]
- Monkey Buffet Festival (งานเลี้ยงโต๊ะจีนลิง) On Sunday during the last week of November at San Phra Kan and Phra Prang Sam Yot where a large number of monkeys stay. Tourists who come to pay respect to Chaopho Phra Kan usually bring food and fruit for the monkeys, making them more tame and familiar with people. In this event, there are various activities such as party offering food in especially beautiful decoration for monkeys and local performances.
- Sunflower Festival (งานทุ่งทานตะวัน) Takes place around December every year as it is when sunflowers are in full bloom.[13]
- Kam Fa Tradition (ประเพณีกำฟ้า) A local merit-making tradition of the Thai Phuan people. It is organised to request for a blessing from gods who protect the sky so that it will rain during the rainy season. The 2nd day of the waxing moon in the 3rd lunar month is considered the eve and the next day is the Kam Fa Day. In the morning, people will give alms with khao lam, glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk in bamboo, and khao chi - roasted glutinous rice, In the afternoon there are local games such as Mon Son Pha, Chuang Chai, Ma Bia, and Ma Kan Han.
- Sai Krachat (ประเพณีใส่กระจาด) Also known as Suea Krachat or Soe Krachat in the Phuan language, is a tradition of the Thai Phuan people. It takes place during the sermon on the Great Birth story. It is mostly organised at the end of Buddhist Lent (the 11th month) in the waning moon period. One day prior to the Sai Krachat Day, people will wrap khao tom, seasoned sticky rice in banana leaf, and grind rice for khao pun rice noodles. The next day is the Sai Krachat Day when people will bring things such as bananas, sugar cane, oranges, candles, and joss sticks or other items to put into the bamboo baskets at the houses of the people they know, while the hosts will bring the prepared food to welcome their guests. When the visitors would like to go home, the host will give khao tom mat as a souvenir in return called "khuen krachat". The next day will be the day of the Great Birth Sermon. It is considered as a grand annual merit-making event of the year.
- Chak Phra Si (ประเพณีชักพระศรีอาริย์ วัดไลย์ หรือประเพณีแห่พระศรีอาริย์) On the 14th day of the waxing moon during the 6th lunar month every year. The temple will arrange the image of the Maitreya Bodhisattva to be enshrined on the "takhe", a handcart, and let the people pull the image to the north. The starting point is Wat Lai to the end at Wat Thong Khung and back to Wat Lai. The procession stops at some points to allow people to pour water onto and to pay respect to the image. There are also a dozen almshouses providing free food for the participants in the procession.
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External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lopburi Province.
- Website of province (Thai)
- Lopburi provincial map, coat of arms and postal stamp Archived June 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
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Come off it. No one from Seattle could possibly be involved in something like this! It's obviously some sort of resentment towards Americans or something
Here's the interesting paragraph from the article:
The existence of the camera footage will seriously undermine Ms Knox's alibi that she spent the evening at her boyfriend's house. It was her second version of what happened that night, when during a pre-dawn interrogation she admitted being in the house and hearing Meredith scream, that prompted police to claim the case was "closed". But following a visit by her mother to the prison where she is being held, Ms Knox has reverted once again to her original testimony.
Either her mother didn't counsel her to tell the truth, or she's lying despite that.
What a fucked-up situation. The court had better sort it all out and put away those responsible.
AOL? Disgusting.
When you name a child Amanda (*must be loved* in latin, as in *filia mea amanda est*).
The mother should have sent in a lawyer instead because the best the girld could do would be to shut up. It probably doesn't matter though becuase they claim to have a wealth of forensic evidence including bloddy fingerprints.
but.. but.. she's such a good girl! i mean, she would never do something like that. i hope my pornstar daughters turn out just like her!
@ 5, I'm not sure you have the right to remain silent in Italy.
Frankly I don't believe any of it -- not the original story, not the changed version, not the fact that she changed her story, the fact that the guy is her boyfriend -- literally nothing. For one thing, it's Italy, and for another, we're hearing what the cops say she said, not what she said. I think waiting for the trial might be sensible. Of course no one gives a shit about sensible.
she was there while the men raped & killed her roommate.
i buy her testimony that she put her hands over her ears till is was over. she was scared & freaked.
then they did a half-assed job of faking a break-in, then split (the 37 y.o. back to his bar, the couple back to his place) to give themselves a plausable alibi.
her testimony that she was so high on hash she doesn't remember anything is bullshit.
Meredith Kercher would give a shit about sensible, if she were alive to.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but I so do not give two flying fucks at a rolling donut about this story.
Dead White Girl! Ohmygod!
She does not deserve a fair trial.
@11---yeah stupid dead chick that was raped and murdered...what a fucking bitch eh? probably deserved it too right?
if you don't care, why post?
this will be a movie before the decade is out.
@13: I think the point is, the media in this country would not be printing anything at all about this story if it were not an attractive young white woman who had been killed. It doesn't hurt the coverage that one of the main suspects is African. "White woman killed by black man" has always sold newspapers/blog hits.
The appeal of the story is it's a study abroad program. A lot of people who read the paper can relate to the fear of something like this happening to them. It's your worst nightmare hence a titillating story.
@ 11 and 15,
I think the point is that she is a local girl that some people on slog knew, and that this seems a very unlikely crime for this person. It was also pretty brutal, and it seems like it is a possible cover up. It has also gotten stirred up some international controversy in the UK and Italy. If this bores you, then why the fuck comment?
I bet the UW's main page doesn't hype this achievement like it does everything else marginally connected to campus - "former UW professor puts on pants all by himself, wins award, UW ver ver ver proud!!!" etc etc etc.
Although it would be pretty funny to watch them spin this one.
I don't have much pity for poor Amanda Knox at this point. It's an interesting story, but only in that sick-o fascination with white girls gone bad kinda way. As per usual, the Stranger staff focuses on people who look like them. And gets scooped by the P-I and taken to task by them:
Maybe she did it and then afterwards regretted it.
If she converts to Christianity I'm sure GWB will pardon her and send in the Marines to get her home.
@14 - TV movie, at best. And probably a third rate cable network.
Very Special Episode of Law & Order: SVU, for sure. I would say by season's end, but not with the strike. next season at the earliest. Unless L&O wants to cop to the fact that their scripts aren't so much written as improvised off the newspaper...
"Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?" - Ellen Ripley.
p@13: ?!?
GeoGreg@15: exactly.
Patrick@17: "a very unlikely crime for this person." Why's that? Because she's rich and white? "If this bores you, then why the fuck comment?" Because the slog has a rich history of people commenting when a post is stupid or boring. Asshole.
So in conclusion, Big Sven, if a some white uw girl gets accused of murder while studying abroad, it's not worth mentioning, because she's not black.
I think some posts, like "Dumbledore=gay", attract a different, let's just call it "stupider", class of Slog commenter.
now I get it@23, my point you fucking moron is that this is a non-story that is only seized upon by the media because everyone likes to see rich white girls fuck up and/or be in danger. It's not that it SHOULD be mentioned if she was black, dumbass, it's that it WOULDN'T.
But it shouldn't either way. Thousands upon thousands of people are killed every year in America. Work to prevent date rape on campus and spousal abuse if you're so fucking concerned about others, since that effects 1000x as many people as "rich exchange student sex killings". But you're not concerned, you're just fapping to the freak show.
thousands upon thousands of people are not violently killed in italy
So, 'biggie j', I guess Seattle is the magical place where there are no murders, huh? Last I checked, Seattle has MORE murders than some other cities.
If she is just being 'attacked', why is she lying about where she was during the murder? Video shows her at the scene the same night of the murder. She claimed that she spent the night at her b'f's house, where the murder weapon was found, incidentally. Why did they find the victim's DNA on a knife in Knox's boyfriend's apartment?
Seriously, if Seattle is the fairy-tale world where no one commits murder, let me know so I can move to this magical city where everyone is safe and there is no unnatural death.
How about this story, biggie j? Stuff like that doesn't happen in Seattle, but mothers let their tiny babies starve to death while they are on a drinking binge with the dead babies IN THE SAME ROOM AS SHE WAS!!!
"A Kent mother told a judge she was deeply sorry for letting her babies starve to death while she went on a drinking binge, though she didn't try to explain what led to the tragedy."
Yeah, stuff like that doesn't happen in Seattle.
fnarf- maybe you should go be the head investigator on this story. you seem to know everything about the case and the MURDERER!
I am a psychology student, and don't you people who claim that you KNOW she wouldn't do this understand that NOBODY knows what another person is capable of? What, you think she would walk around telling people that she is capable of watching a friend get raped and then stabbed her in the neck?
No one knows what anyone else is capable of. That's the bottom line fact.
Besides, I heard "Foxy Knoxy" was a slutty ho anyways. That's why the police are using her myspace page against her. Proof of character, people. If a rapist can get away because of the woman he raped's character, then "Foxy Knoxy's" character can be used to prove that she IS NOT as perfect and innocent and some people think.
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Thank you :)
You know, I love SMRPG. All-time favorite classic. And this is one of the best damned songs I know. But, I've heard a lot of them and a lot are also great.
But why am I thanking you? Because among them all, yours is the only one that put an awesome image into my mind. And with that thought. I will model a seen of the Forest maze in 3D with Geno :) Thank you for the inspiration!


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