Mad Man Speck

Hiding under the bed (or couch in Sally's case) was a theme on Sunday's Mad Men, with the references to the Richard Speck murders:

On the night of July 14, 1966, Speck showed up at a house at 2319 East 100th St. in Chicago's South Side. There lived several nurses, many of them Filipino, who studied at the South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing.

"He bound all nine women with strips of bed sheets. He led eight of them, one by one, to other rooms in the town house. He raped one and killed all eight by strangling or stabbing them, or both."

Only one of his victims would survive:

"Corazon Amurao, a visiting exchange nurse from the Philippines, survived by wriggling under a bed while he was out of the room. After Mr. Speck fled, Miss Amurao alerted the authorities by climbing onto a ledge outside the town house and screaming: 'They are all dead! My friends are all dead! Oh, God, I'm the only one alive!'"

Have fun sleeping tonight!

When I was a little kid I dropped the lid to a Play-Doh (or, more likely, a generic knockoff, like "Fun-Doh!" or "Fuck It, You're Poor-Doh!"...real Play-Doh was for rich people) container in the radiator in my bedroom and couldn't get it out; as it got hotter and started melting, curling up, I thought "Well. The house is going to burn down. I'm gonna be in deep shit for this one." And so what did I do?

Crawled under my bed and hid.

And yes, somebody of somewhat importance was born on that very date of July 14 six years later but I won't say who; you know I like to keep things about anything but myself, so. Shit ain't always about me.

Here's the room, via Mad Men Unbuttoned: