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0626-1020 Today is 62626. This is about as palindromic as the dates are going to be this year. … This is the first walk of the journaling week. Last week is online as we speak. This is a good excuse to sit down in front of the keyboard. … The walk today was pretty good. There was mild dizziness on the second lap through the fourth lap, but it never went beyond the nuisance level.
The podcast today was from Deep Cover, The Murder of Lita McClinton, Part 2: The Hitman. Ms. McClinton was murdered January 16, 1987, at 3085 Slaton Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30305. After a few twists and turns, the bad guy got caught. James Vincent Sullivan is now GDC ID 0001211423 at Augusta State Med Prison. (There are 7 James Sullivans in Georgia Prisons) Phillip Anthony Harwood was convicted for his role in the murder, and was released from Coastal State Prison May 25, 2018.
The Fulton County DA for this case, Paul Howard, is a piece of work. Mr. Howard’s conduct was especially bad after the shooting of Rayshard Brooks. Mr. Howard charged Ofc. Garret Rolfe with felony murder, before the GBI investigation of the case was complete. Mr. Howard was succeeded as DA by Fani Willis, who has her own set of issues.
0627-0941 – The walk today sucked. The dizziness started on the first lap, and continued to get worse. I stopped after 26 minutes. The podcasts were boring. Maybe tomorrow will be better. … After sitting down for a while, I did two more laps, to finish the 36 minutes on the timer. The dizziness was back on the second lap. I might could have done more, but did not feel like fighting it.
0628-1030 – The walk today was fabulous. I was worried after the disaster yesterday, but the dizziness stayed at nuisance level, and eventually went away all together. I did 42 minutes, and could have done more if I wasn’t eager to write about the podcast. The show was a special episode of Bad Gays, Liza’s Bad Gays. It is about the ultimate fag hag, Liza Minnelli. Judy’s daughter was married four times. Peter Allen (hubby #1) and David Gest (hubby #4) were raging homos. Liza has a book out, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! There are some jaw dropping quotes.
“Judy Garland reportedly told Liza Minnelli that, and I quote, “When I die, they’re going to fly the flag at half mast at Cherry Grove. They’re going to be standing half erect in the meat rack singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
About Peter Sellers: “I don’t know if this was the most jaw-dropping moment for me, but it is the part that made me put the book down because I was laughing so hard and I literally couldn’t continue was when she talks about dating Peter Sellers … And he obviously was crazy. She talks about him being kind of abusive and larger than life and really intense, but there’s one point where she goes like, I was always a prankster and I couldn’t … be myself around him. Like the time I pulled his hairpiece off at a dinner party. … could you imagine going up to of all people Peter Sellers at a packed dinner party in his home … and snatch him bald in front of all of his guests. … And she talks about it as if it was like well how could he have been mad? … “Lady, you literally snatched this straight man bald in front of a room full of people.” And I was just like, “April fools.”
About Peter Allen: “I thought it was really interesting how much Liza really wanted us to know that they [ __ ] … because also the idea that he was somehow holding his nose while he wanted to be intimate with her. … “No, we had a very active, vibrant sex life, which also makes it more shocking to her when, drum roll please, she comes home from an errand and he is fully having sex with a man in their bed.” importantly fully bottoming in her bed.”
About David Gest: “ Oh, if I could wave a magic wand, I would have avoided this creep like Salmonella. I’d have kicked his bony ass to the ground wearing stilettos. Which is something he accused me later of doing. How absurd. Why on earth would I ruin a perfectly beautiful shoe?”
0629-1011 – Today’s walk went pretty well. There was mild dizziness between lap two and lap four. I can live with that. The podcast was Episode 314: Authentic Authenticity On A Silver Platner, from Blocked and Reported. The topic was Graham Cunningham Platner, who is running for the US Senate in Maine. Jesse Singal did most of the talking.
I have a rule for jury trials and elections: If I don’t have a vote, then I don’t have an opinion. The election of GCP would be inconvenient for a few powerful players. As a result, his life is being held under a microscope. … The BAR show description is full of parentheses. In case you are new here, (((x))) means that x is Jewish. … “This week on Blocked and Reported, (((Jesse))) and Katie dig into Graham Platner: the oyster farmer, Senate hopeful, and working-class rich kid whose Nazi tattoo and wandering eye were so rudely surfaced by the (((lamestream media))) in an effort to protect the (((billionaire class))).” Whatever.
0630-0944 – The walk went well. There was mild dizziness for the first four laps, and the summer heat is kicking in. The first podcast was “Pig Lab” from The New Yorker. This is a confusing tale. The author, Will Mackin, is a veteran of America’s west asian wars. The story takes place in either a war zone, or pig farm stateside, or both. It was unpleasant to listen to, and was turned off quickly.
The second podcast was The Limits of Manifesting Success with James Forman, Jr., from Deep Cover. This was an addendum to the series about the Boonie hat bandit. James Forman, Jr., is a law professor, and he discussed the case. In one of his trials, Keith Giammanco served as his own counsel. There is an old saying … a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
0701-1014 – The walk went well. There was mild dizziness on laps 2-4, but it never went beyond being noticed. I did a double victory lap, finishing after 49 minutes. The podcast was Emmy-Winner Jeff Hiller Returns! Talking Bodies and Money in a Changing Hollywood from Death, Sex & Money. I had never heard of Jeff Hiller (no middle name), but he was reasonably pleasant to listen to. JH is a gay man, 6’5”, with issues about the amount of hair on his body. We have things in common.
JH was recently in Celebrity Autobiography, reading selections from books. One of the books he read from was VS. It turns out I read VS. Vanna White was from Myrtle Beach SC, and moved to Atlanta to attend fashion college. She lived for a while in Brookhaven, with Gordon McGregor, who may have been a year ahead of me at Cross Keys.
“Like, my friend was doing this Google predictive text. I didn’t write about how there was one celebrity … When you write his name, the first thing that comes up is the word bottom. I was like, that’s the first thing people ask the Internet about this celebrity who I will not mention anyway.”
0702-1040 – The walk today was a hot time in Georgia. The dizziness took a day off, and was not missed. The podcast today was Junk Science Sent Charles McCrory to Prison — Alabama Won’t Let Him Out from Gone South.
Charles McCrory was convicted of murdering his wife. The primary evidence was bite marks on his wife’s arm. The forensic dentist who testified later recanted his testimony. The state of Alabama stubbornly refuses to let him go, even after 40 years in prison.
Bite mark evidence was once a big thing, but is largely considered junk science today. BME might have cleared Carlton Gary, in a sensational Georgia case. Instead, Mr. Gary was executed at 10:33 pm, March 15, 2018. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Dorothea Lange took the social media picture in February 1939. “Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah