the good news just keeps on coming...

So I get a call at work from Boo, and this time she reports that she has just been in a serious auto accident. My first question is "are you hurt?". She reports that she has a headache, and has an appointment to see a doctor today. I tell her to get a lawyer (with money she doesn't have) and keep me posted. Now, the real reason she called me is because, in my efforts to be a decent man, I had agreed to keep her on my auto insurance policy for six months after i made her move out. Since she couldn't afford to pay for it, being out of work and totally unqualified for any job not involving spreading her legs. So now, my question is, how far does my responsibility go? Do I pay the increased premiums, do i pay for her car repairs? Common sense says no. But I'm sure she expects me to help, since she, having the responsibility of a twelve year old, cannot possibly handle it herself. So the real question is, can I deduct whatever this is going to cost me (and believe me, somehow, it is going to cost me) from our final divorce settlement? Of course, my $400 / hour divorce lawyer is out of town for a month on yet another month-long vacation, so I can't ask him, so I put it to the world, is this fair? Deducting the cost from her settlement, I mean, not the whole situation. Either way, of course, i expect lots and lots of screaming at me for trying to keep from being taken advantage of.

Take 2

Would you like to hear a story? Oh, here's a good one. Once upon a time, last summer, my soon-to-be ex Boo decided that i was sooooo depressed that she was afraid that I woud do harm to myself. Perhaps not an unreasonable thought to have on her part, though it is clear that I am waaaay to selfish to do anything like that. But how would she know? anyway, she decided that I was a clear danger to myself, so what does she do? Does she stay with me to try and console me, or perhaps try to keep an eye on me? No, she decides the best anwser is to immediately leave the vicinity, namely, our apartment. So far, so good. Now, mind you, I'm not an expert in counseling the depressed, despite my B.A. in Experimental Psychology, my M.A. in Psych, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, but it seems to me probably the worst thing you can do with someone you suspect is deeply depressed is to leave them on their own. But, hey, maybe that's just me. I would not have been too disappointed in her if she had just left, but no, she immediately goes out and calls the POLICE, tells them that I am dangerous, and that they need to come to my apartment and protect me from myself. Now, what I have not mentioned is that I have, since childhood, always been around, used and owned firearms. I have always been a collector. She of course shares this with the cops, so when they come to my place, they immediately confisate all my firearms, mind you, some of them are antiques that have never even been fired (at least by me). Some of them I did inherit from my long dead Father, but that matters not. So away they go, after indicating that it was either this, or go away in handcuffs myself. Not wishing to go to jail for being depressed, I gladly surrender them. But the real question is, does someone who loves you call the cops on you for being depressed? I think not. But again, maybe that's just me. Then she is surprised that I am a tad upset, since I saw no need for her to try and provide me with a criminal record. But it all makes perfect sense to her. Maybe i'm wrong here, but would you leave someone alone with a gun collection who you thought was seriously depressed?

Where to begin?

Well, i suppose i owe you a story. Let's begin. When i met my former wife, who we shall call "Boo", she was an alcoholic, chain-smoking prostitute. Oh, and about 30 pounds overweight. I thought i saw something else underneath all that - a good person. i realize now i was wrong. A leopard can't change her spots, i suppose. Anyway, all that stuff was clear. what i didn't know, and only came to learn after she nagged me into marrying her, was that she was also a world-class con - working in the past in cahoots with Reed slatkin (now doing time in lompoc federal pen for a $250 million dollar swindle) and Ron Rakow, who did time in prison back in the 80's for run another pyramid scam. Not to mention her last ex-husband "A gordin" (or more properly, the guy she tried to get to marry her for about 8 years, but who was smart enough not to do it) who made millions off the slatkin fraud scandal. But he is immune from our goverment prosecuters - he fled the country and now lives in Rio (Brazil - no extradition) so he can keep the money they stole from all those old, retired people. I also came to learn after marriage that she mainained contact with him after he had fled the country. how do I know this? Because in the course of testifying for one of the many subpoenas she was served during our marriage, when she was asked by the federal investigators when she last talked to old arlo, she told them, and they confirmed that yes, phone records did show when she had talked to him in rio. So, my phone was, essentially, bugged by feds. She was also subpeoned to testify against ron's girl friend denise del bianco, becasue the feds want to know hom come they had $388,000 (in cash!) when the feds served a search warrent on their place in monticido, ca. searching for evidnece in the slatkin fraud case. . I also learned that my former wife had been in regular contact with Ron (or "caddilac ron rakow" as he was known when he toured as a manager w/ the grateful dead) during our marriage, even though i had asked her to try and stay away from all the ex-convicts she was friends with.

Have i piqued your interest yet? I haven't even gotten to her rage problems, her physical violence towards me, her time spent in a mental hospital (involuntarily commited, of course). But i digress.

the first question, you might have, what gives me the right to share all this on the internet? well, let me tell you. For almost the entire year of our marriage, my boo kept a secret, on-line blog, with many readers, judeging by the responses and comments, which shared many personal (and libelous) things about yours truely, as well as a number of lies and accusations. so i feel no guild in sharing this now. Plus, my divorce (and alimony) should be done by summer, asfter which i will never have to let her enter my consciouness again - with any luck.

This is only the tip of the lawsuit, so to speak. Over time, i reveal stuff she did that makes all this look like a church social. It therapy for me!

TTFN, BF

Meet Blind Fury

Thats Me. Or, more properly, that's where I have been driven. Or at least if you read me former wife's blogs featuring me, that is what you would be lead to believe. Perhaps she is right. But then again, perhaps some of the true tales that I'm going to unfold for you might give you a different "skew". Now I have to go and decide which tale deserves to be told - first. TTFN, BF