@ Miz: A Different Thought Wrote:
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> "Oh, just one more thing."
>
> That's me, walking away, then I stop and turn
> around - kind of the way Columbo always used to
> do. Except the above move precedes my exit at
> Tysons Corner, and I'm not exactly Columbo, and
> nor are you the kind of person Columbo
> traditionally pulls this move on (you being the
> good guy, and the other being the murderer,
> ordinarily, who gets the pause in doorway, turn,
> "one last thing" bit from Columbo (you could watch
> any given episode; I would imagine, without
> checking, that he does it in every single one, as
> the punchline to his initial chat with the
> seemingly innocent person whom we (the audience)
> know "did it" (Columbo being a sort of reverse
> mystery -- we (the audience) see who the killer is
> right from the get-go (most murder mysteries, of
> course, the killer is only revealed at the very
> end), and the "mystery" is how anyone can possibly
> solve what we see with our own two eyes is a very
> ingenious, if not fiendishly clever crime).)
>
> Eh, wait, stop. Columbo's neither here nor there.
> Columbo is not my point.
>
> (Bodie: "What
is your point? Get the fuck
> on with it man!" (spit))
>
> Okay.
>
> I haven't gotten too deep in the weeds on this
> thing, so there may be a nuance, or many nuances,
> I'm missing.
>
> But, to the extent the above-posted remarks by
> "Frank Krow" are actually remarks by one Wm.
> Moreno (you know, the guy who's willing to sit in
> Starbucks and listen to the biggest idiot in the
> world babble on for, literally, hours -- that Wm.
> Moreno, better known as "Mr.Misery" (or is there a
> space between the "dot" and the capital (capitol?)
> "M"?)), well, to that extent, I will say this.
>
> Since my untimely exit, I have not been watching
> the progress of this thing (i.e., Miz v. Basl) too
> closely, with very rare occasional glances at ol'
> FU, including seeing the seemingly heartening
> "twist" or surprise that Miss Lizzie was going to
> step up and testify for you.
>
> And, seeing that, I thought, That's wonderful. I
> always knew Lizzie was something special, and now
> she's going to do the right thing, in
> circumstances where it very well may cost her
> something to do the right thing, but she's going
> to do it anyway. Yay, Lizzie! It warmed the
> cockles of my otherwise shriveled and dead heart.
> A little tear might even have leaked from my
> (somewhat bleary) eye down my (likewise shriveled
> (and mottled) (and ill-shaved)) cheek, thus making
> me the *perfect* fool, if I was not perfect
> already (and of course, i was, and am) (innit)
> (allegedly).
>
> Anyway.
>
> At the same time, some part of me sort of
> wondered... hmmm....
>
> Now, pause. Let me explain that "wondering" and
> "hmmm..." part.
>
> You see, it's a funny thing, but during the past
> few months I've gotten very
suspicious
> about other people.
>
> I see conspiracies everywhere.
>
> I feel, mebbe, like
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello">Ot
> hello did, while hastening to add, I'm no
> Othello (I hope) <--- Explanation: When he says "I
> hope," that means he's thinking about the end of
> Othello, when Othello gets so twisted up he kills
> his perfectly innocent wife.
>
> So taking that into account - and I have myself to
> take it into account when I'm trying to make sense
> of things, sometimes some very simple things (not
> excluding a piece of melting ice on the floor -
> which has no relevance to this post other than as
> an illustration of how "twisted up" my mind has
> gotten by some very deft and near-constant twists
> and twistings (or is it turns and turnings, as in
> "the turn of the screw"??) by some very expert
> ("high-level," you might say) mind-twisters; or --
>
have I twisted my own mind up; am I crazy? have
> i actually gone nuts?? ...well, one never
> knows, do one).
>
> Anywho, we posit all the above-noted perplexities
> as factoring into the part of me that wondered --
> the wondering might not have been straight and
> true; I might have been wondering/wandering up
> (another) "blind alley"; I might have fooled my
> own mind with one of those old school double
> reverse mirror tricks; or I might have misread a
> handkerchief, a la Othello, but in my case there
> may not be any Iago planting the handkerchief; in
> my case, I may be playing Iago to my own Othello
> (sort of like how Norman Bates played mother to
> his own "Norman" (or maybe he
really was
> his mother (and, according to the psychologist,
href="http://images.rapgenius.com/8ixbs81ixc61sgji
> yumyasvai.520x407x1.jpg">he was, heh heh)).
>
> So.
>
> Anyway.
>
> Where were we?
>
> (Bodie just stares, shakes his head, looks down)
>
> Ah, yes.
>
> (Bodie looks up, an almost child-like hope in his
> eyes for just a fraction of a second, before he
> frowns, and purses his lips, and his eyes go back
> to normal)
>
> That thought. The one I was wondering about.
>
> Well, I wondered (and I first wondered this
> several months ago)...
>
> I wondered if --
no, it
>
couldn't be!
>
> Not that! Anything but that!
>
> Heaven forfend!
>
> Lizzie would
never...!
>
>
Not Lizzie!! She's too
> nice!
>
> But I wondered anyway, the following.
>
> To wit:
>
>
Part I, My wonderings up to about 5 minutes
> ago.
>
Part II, My wonderings during the past 5
> minutes.
>
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
>
>
PART I: I wondered, before the flip (I mean
> Lizzie's recent break with "team Miz"), whether
> Lizzie might pull a "Nakeisha Lyles" on you.
>
> You remember Nakeisha Lyles, right?
>
> Gal in the first episode of The Wire.
>
> The security guard in the booth who witnessed
> D'Angelo shoot the guy.
>
> And she (Nakeisha) was seemingly locked into
> certain testimony when she got up to testify, in
> the scene we see near the beginning of season 1,
> episode 1 of The Wire.
>
> But then -- surprise surprise.
>
> She switches up, and does so very artfully
> indeed.
>
> She's sworn in, and then she says, Naw, wasn't
> *him* I saw (meaning D'Angelo, whose trial this is
> that she's testifying at, as a (at least nominal)
> witness for the prosecution), it was another guy.
>
> And the white prosecutor lady is gobsmacked.* Bu-
> bu- bu-... But you
swore!
>
> &n
> bsp; &nbs
> p; * It's funny seeing how
> flustered she (the prosecutor lady) gets, well,
> it's
kind of funny,** until you sort of
>
think about
> &n
> bsp; &nbs
> p; what's really
> happening here, what's
really going on --
> an obstruction of justice.
>
> &n
> bsp; &nbs
> p;
> &n
> bsp; &nbs
> p; ** Maybe kinda sorta like how "eesh"
> is "funny"?
>
> And the scene goes on - rewatch it. It's good. A
> lot going on there. Worth rewatching.
>
> Anywho, at a certain point, seeing the inevitable,
> McNulty leans over to Stringer Bell and says
> "Nicely done." And McNulty walks out.
>
> And the jury, of course, returns a Not Guilty
> verdict.
>
> And I had had the thought, months ago, actually --
> what a debacle it would be for Miz if Lizzie
> "pulled a Nakeisha Lyles" on him -- it might wreck
> his whole case! (Just like Nakeisha Lyles wrecked
> the state's dead-bang case against D'Angelo.)
>
> So I was worried about that, and then I took at
> glimpse at FU the other day and thought, ah shit,
> it looks like Liz actually *did* pull a Nakeisha
> Lyles! Well, kinda sorta; not quite as skillful
> or dispositive (your (Miz's) case has not been
> "dismissed with prejudice") as what Mr. Levy and
> Mr. Bell cooked up.
>
> But -- Dagnabit!, I thought to myself. This is
> not a good thing! (And I think, too, are there
> any
other tricks up the collective sleeve
> of the folks who engineered the Nakeisha
> Lyles-like flip?)
>
> End of Part I.
>
>
PART II: Had the further thought, while
> reading this thread, that *maybe* (although it
> seems unlikely), but maybe
Lizzie herself
> was the target of an Iago-style handkerchief move
> that twisted *her* up -- indeed twisted her up so
> hard that she would say, and actually
>
believe: "He was eeshing me so I would get
> mad and blame everything on eesh."
>
> And, simultaneously, when Liz concludes, honestly
> (confused by Iago-like interpositions) (
read
> the plot summary of Othello linked to above),
> "I've been eeshed by Miz into blaming everything
> on eesh!," that would, naturally enough, make an
> equally honest Miz react angrily, react that is as
> he did, as posted above (by attachment) under the
> Frank Krow name.
>
>
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
> Naw. Part II thesis don't fly. Cause of this:
> Basl either did, or did not, say what he said (or
> didn't say) to Liz -- that is, the things he
> allegedly said the swatting incident.
>
> If he said 'em, he said 'em, and ain't no amount
> of post facto alleged eeshing by Moreno gonna make
> him unsay them.
>
> Liz either heard him say those words, or she
> didn't.
>
> And she swore under oath in some venue - if memory
> serves - that he did.
>
> So, upon further consideration, there's no
> confusion.
>
> Liz pulled a Nakeisha Lyles on you, brah.
>
> And you got angry. And now she's using your anger
> to justify what she did.
>
> Which was the plan all along.
>
> But -- it ain't over 'til it's over.
>
> And it ain't over.
>
> So, hope remains.
>
> Indeed, the audacity of hope.
>
> And in that hope I now bid you adieu.
>
> PS: The above is what it is. But, if you'd like,
> feel free to show it to your lawyer.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Your pal.
>
> Still out here.
>
> Alive and well.
>
> Allegedly.
Thank you.
So much.
You know where to find me...
I am devastated...but also relieved. Morality. Ethics. It's that.. ...really. More than...
Well... Wish I could explain better.
Take care.