As the story supposedly goes, Lisa Nowak -- the NASA astronaut who drove from Texas to Florida to have an unfriendly encounter with her would-be boyfriend's girlfriend -- carried diapers with her on the 1000-mile journey so she wouldn't have to stop.
The fact that she's accused of attempted murder notwithstanding, there is something that NASA can possibly be proud of here. I guess their astronauts are learning something from being stuck in a spacesuit for hours on end, and can apply that to the world outside of the Space Shuttle.
(However, I digress.)
I like telling my friend Stephanie that Susan Smith (that woman from South Carolina who drove her car into a lake, with her kids inside) was sort of hot, in a psychotic way. I do this mostly because she went to grad school at the University of South Carolina, so she's quite familiar with the story. The reaction is always predictable:
- She first tells me just how white trash Susan Smith was (with some comment about her getting pregnant while she was in prison thrown in for good measure)
- She then tells me about how her former boss owns Susan Smith's dining room table, because no one else in the family would buy that. (I then tell her that I'm willing to buy the table from her former boss. I'm not quite sure she believes me, though.)
When I first saw the mugshot of Ms. Nowak, I had a flash of Nick Nolte go through my head:
The stories kept coming and coming, though, and soon enough, news agencies throughout the land were printing this Nolte-esque moment alongside her official NASA photo:
I have to admit that my first reaction to this photo is that, once you take away the dirty diapers, 1000-mile car rides, and the lunacy, Lisa Nowak is kind of hot. Whether this means that she's the next Susan Smith, I don't know. But if anyone knows if her dining room table is for sale, please let me know. I'll buy it.
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