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The Ricin letter-writing suspect was an Elvis impersonator:

Through decades of dead-end day jobs, Curtis’s mainstay has been night and weekend gigs as a celebrity impersonator. He has dressed up and performed at weddings and at parties as Prince, Buddy Holly and Kid Rock, but most often as none other than Elvis Presley — not just anywhere in Mississippi, but in The King’s native Tupelo.

Curtis and his family and friends have, over many years, amassed a library of videos and photos, many posted online, that show him singing and dancing with a distinctive curled upper lip and thick sideburns.

In one online profile bearing more than 800 photos of himself, Curtis typed this in his biography: “Father/Activist/Singer/Songwriter/Business Owner/Rebel.”

/Inmate

Forget about the ricin, a middle-aged white man impersonating Prince is the real crime here.

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  1. 1.

    Poopyman

    Oh God. Here come all the lines from all of the Elvis songs/movies.

    First one to use Jailhouse Rock gets pied.

  6. 6.

    Cacti

    @Poopyman:

    Oh God. Here come all the lines from all of the Elvis songs/movies.

    The FBI brought the suspect’s letter with them. It was stamped “Return to Sender”.

  9. 9.

    Cacti

    When he knew the jig was up, Curtis dropped to his knees and begged “Don’t be Cruel”.

  12. 12.

    Violet

    Middle aged white guy mad at politicians for not being conservative enough–that’s the real shocker. No one could have predicted.

  15. 15.

    Mark S.

    How could you leave out the funniest line of the article?

    He wrote online that Elvis-impersonating contests had become rigged and politicized.

  16. 16.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Poopyman:

    Jailhouse Rock, Jailhouse Rock, Jailhouse Rock. :-)

    But yeah, a middle aged white dude doing a Prince imitation is kinda weird.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    The same person cannot be both a Prince and a Kid Rock impersonator. Which, of course, also brings to mind this terrifying thought: there is a market for Kid Rock impersonators.

  20. 20.

    Face

    @Mark S.: This is pretty damn funny, too:

    The broken relationships, the financial duress, the increasing isolation he perceived — all, he wrote, seemed to stem from an episode when he was working in a morgue.

    What exactly did he do to those stiffs in the morgue?

  22. 22.

    Older_Wiser

    This guy has some serious mental issues.

    https://sites.google.com/site/paulkevincurtis/ And yes, it appears he may be this “Elvis impersonator”, also: https://www.facebook.com/1stelvisguy If he’s a Mensa member (who can’t spell), I’m Joan of Arc. This is a Youtube video of him from 2001, and you can tell he has real mental issues: http://www.youtube.com

    Don’t forget, this is the guy daddy could just pass a gun to, also, in that POS “gun reform” bill that was just defeated. Let’s get a better one–and kick the NRA’s ass along with their sycophants in Congress.

  23. 23.

    Feudalism Now!

    Elvis impersonator activist rebel inmate lover of small woodland creatures.
    Did he ever cover ‘Poison Ivy League’ or ‘Love Letters’?

  25. 25.

    sb

    @Poopyman: Once he goes to prison, he’ll experience a whole new version of “Jailhouse Rock”. Or “Love Me Tender” as the case may be, amirite?

    /ducks

  26. 26.

    MikeJ

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    also brings to mind this terrifying thought: there is a market for Kid Rock impersonators.

    It’s almost certainly better than having the real one there.

  29. 29.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    This just shows how dangerous AQ has become; they can now train their agents to pass as White, middle-aged Elvis impersonators. It’s obvious that we need to spend additional billions to counter this new threat.

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linda Featheringill: No way in hell I click on that.

    @MikeJ:

    It’s almost certainly better than having the real one there.

    Is it really? A world with Kid Rock in it could be the result of a chance. A world with a market for Kid Rock impersonators? That takes malign influence.

  36. 36.

    SteveM

    He was also crazy — obsessed with an allegedly widespread plot to traffic body parts that probably existed only in his own head. I’m not used to giving credit to Glenn Beck’s Blaze, but this collection of links and quotes persuades me that he’s a clinical paranoid.

    I once had a co-worker like him who thought evil, violent things were taking place where we worked — things that were utterly impossible. She was ultimately institutionalized, and later wrote letters in her ex-co-workers’ names alleging beheadings and orgies at our office. It was sad, really.

  40. 40.

    Cermet

    Wow, a major bio-terrorism attack in the US and on both a senator and, oh, just the President and the media has a collective sound of – near silence.

    Oh, just the standard white, middle age amerikan loon – move along, nothing to see here.

    Worse, the white senator got the most news coverage. That’s right, the other person who was targeted was just some black guy. Can you imagine the rightwing freak out if bush (while in office; not now since the right would only say – bush who?) had been one of the targets?

  42. 42.

    maurinsky

    My ex-husband has a similar mental health problem, except instead of politicians not being conservative enough, his paranoia leans more towards “we need anarchy”. He’s also unable to hold a job. He is very intelligent, though. He’s somewhere on the schizo-affective disorder spectrum. It’s sad, because he’s too paranoid to ever get help.

  45. 45.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    Quick Boston Question: Was the library attacked or not? I never heard a definitive answer on that.

  48. 48.

    PaulW

    I just wanna state officially for the record that a vast majority of us Elvis Impersonators are not conspiracy nuts mailing ricin everywhere.

    Most of us Elvis Impersonators are decent, hard-working impersonators doing our best to express the fact that Elvis is inside each and every one of us. Except for the Anti-Elvis… beat… Dick Cheney has no Elvis in him. But I digress.

    So, please do not assume that Paul Kevin Curtis speaks for all Elvises (Elvii?) everywhere. Being Elvis is a wonderful, special thing to be, but sometimes… well… we do get the crazy ones once in awhile.

    Thank you. Thank you very much.

    — this message has been brought to you by a guy whose haircutter once noted he can part his hair just like Elvis. Thank you, thank you very much.

  54. 54.

    NonyNony

    @SteveM:

    He was also crazy — obsessed with an allegedly widespread plot to traffic body parts that probably existed only in his own head. I’m not used to giving credit to Glenn Beck’s Blaze, but this collection of links and quotes persuades me that he’s a clinical paranoid.

    Shockingly, a guy who would cook up ricin in his own house to send to his Senator and the President might be a nutjob. Hoocoodaknowed right?

    But clearly this must be the work of al Qaeda. Because the group has a history of sending random unsigned letters to government officials and not, you know, actively picking their targets based on their symbolic and/or actual connection to US economic and military power.

    (ETA: That last paragraph comes out weird out of context – I just couldn’t believe there were people on the news suggesting a link between AQ and the ricin mailings other than maybe with AQ as the inspiration for someone who was mentally ill like this guy seems to have been inspired by conspiracy theories.)

  57. 57.

    GregB

    He apparently had enough of people knocking him down, stepping on his face and slandering his name all over the place.

    And he’s not gonna take it anymore.

  59. 59.

    Mike E

    How about Filipino Elvis? True story: the parking attendant at the hospital where Miss E was born could really do a mean King, and IIRC his red sequined jumpsuit made all the ladies holler. His nom de Presley was “Renelvis”.

  61. 61.

    Suffern ACE

    @Mike E: Washington DC used to have the Black Elvis or “Blelvis”, a street performer who claimed to know all 600+ songs that Elvis ever recorded and he would perform any one at your request. He was actually quite charming, although I would guess that someone who actually knew every song recorded might be able to stump him.

  62. 62.

    Ben Franklin

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Trafficking in organs is unusual, but not unpossible. Mississippi is perhaps the most likely place for corruption of this level.

    But we will never know, especially now, because someone possibly driven crazy by the crazy has diverted the direction of this story.

  64. 64.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @JGabriel:

    I am grateful for the warning. I will not click on Linda’s link. I will not click on Linda’s link. I will not click on Linda’s link.

  65. 65.

    priscianus jr

    Forget about the ricin, a middle-aged white man impersonating Prince is the real crime here.

    Yes, but there was something fishy even in this middle-aged white man impersonating Elvis.

    True, Elvis himself wound up as a middle-aged white man impersonating Elvis. But I don’t recall Elvis ever attempting to poison leaders in Washington.

  67. 67.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @priscianus jr:

    True, Elvis himself wound up as a middle-aged white man impersonating Elvis. But I don’t recall Elvis ever attempting to poison leaders in Washington.

    Much to his discredit, he got close enough to Nixon do do something about him, and did nothing (except to volunteer to be a Federal operative in the war on some drugs.)

  70. 70.

    rda909

    I, for one, will miss Ted & Helen’s contributions here now that he’ll be locked up. Lettuce pray.

  74. 74.

    Cassidy

    @Ben Franklin:

    Mississippi is perhaps the most likely place for corruption of this level.

    Based on…what? Personal bias? I don’t know the stats for Tupelo, MS, but I would imagine that higher volume trauma centers in areas with large undocumented immigrant populations would probably be more likely places to hide an organ trafficking ring.

  76. 76.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ben Franklin: He was talking about a fridge full of arms and heads. Livers, kidneys, and hearts? Sure, there may be a black market and MS is as good a place as any for it. But I doubt there is a much of a market for used heads and extra arms. Okay, there are Moties. There is Zaphod Beelblebrox. And there is Victor Frankenstein. I just don’t see that being enough to support an industry. Occam says symptom of illness not conspiracy.

  79. 79.

    Ben Franklin

    @Cassidy:

    After about a year and a half of employment, I questioned management about unfair employment practices & work ethics involving Hispanics, who did not speak English working excessive hours & off the clock each day, while non-hispanic’s were being sent home and/or written up for not having his/her “nametag”

    Uh, the history of Mississippi is a matter of record and it has a convenient port.

  83. 83.

    JPL

    The mayor of Boston is in a wheel chair because of a severely broken leg and when it was his turn to reflect, he pulled himself up to the lectern. You could see the grimace on his face.

  85. 85.

    catclub

    I was thinking about Nixon’s “If the president does it it’s not a crime.” I wonder if there is a corollary for Elvis.

  86. 86.

    mai naem

    Enough already. This thread is going into running for the Best Thread of the Year.

    Kind of OT, after yesterday’s debacle at CNN I think today would be a good day for Jake Tapper to question Obama about his smoking habits. Has he started smoking again this week? Because, shit, if hasn’t started smoking by today, he’s fer sure given it up permanently. Obama is going to look ancient by the time 2016 rolls around.

  88. 88.

    Ben Franklin

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Conspiracies, by their very nature are unpossible. They only exist in the vacuum of a fevered existence, and often sound crazy, because they are.

    Shorter Omnes.

  91. 91.

    Cassidy

    @Ben Franklin: Quoting a delusional paranoid who has decided to send biological weapons to people he doesn’t like doesn’t help your argumetn or prove anything.

    Other states have higher populations of undocumented immigrants and histories of corruption.

  92. 92.

    JPL

    Rev. Taylor just said another hate will not make us haters.. Bless me father for I have sinned, because I’m becoming less tolerant of the whackos in the world.

  93. 93.

    Just One More Canuck

    @Omnes Omnibus: Exactly. Who the hell would want to imitate Kid Rock. Mind you, the irony of someone imitating a ripoff ‘artist’ like Kid Rock is good

  97. 97.

    Ben Franklin

    @Cassidy:

    Quoting a delusional paranoid who has decided to send biological weapons to people he doesn’t like doesn’t help your argumetn or prove anything.

    I was under the impression nothing has been proven yet, except he’s an Elvis impersonator.

    I guess that makes him guilty of something, somewhere.

  99. 99.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @mai naem:

    Somewhere there must be a 16 ton weight suspended in mid-air that can be accidentally dropped on Jake Tapper. It’s just a matter of contriving the circumstances to get the two of them together.

  100. 100.

    Cassidy

    @Ben Franklin: Aren’t you one of those people that laments that Cheney and company have never been tried for war crimes and how Obama is the devil because of it?

    I was under the impression nothing has been proven yet, except he’s an Elvis impersonator.

    I guess that makes him guilty of something, somewhere.

    Irony.

    ETA: I know better than to engage people who believe in conspiracy theories.

  101. 101.

    Villago Delenda Est

    OK, on the BJ main page, on of the ads is for gambling in Mississippi.

    Gotta love those Google ads.

  103. 103.

    Davis X. Machina

    @mai naem: You’re confusing an Obama smoking relapse with steam coming out of the man’s ears.

    From a distance they look the same.

  104. 104.

    JPL

    Since he wants Ted Nugent to be President, I’m surprised he hasn’t impersonated his idol.

  105. 105.

    Ben Franklin

    @Cassidy:

    : Aren’t you one of those people that laments that Cheny and company have never been tried for war crimes and how Obama is the devil because of it?

    Huh?

  106. 106.

    Gex

    @Cassidy: So he hates their fiscal and social policies. Why is he a Republican? Because he’s the exact kind of dude they win over with their stupid tribalism and their determination to make liberal a dirty word.

    I mean, who does he think helps all these policies he dislikes get implemented? Blaming the politicians but not the voters who select them?

    Kid, if you don’t like what they do, don’t vote for them. I’ll still let you CALL yourself a Republican if it makes you feel better about your white maleness.

  109. 109.

    max

    @mai naem: Kind of OT, after yesterday’s debacle at CNN I think today would be a good day for Jake Tapper to question Obama about his smoking habits. Has he started smoking again this week? Because, shit, if hasn’t started smoking by today, he’s fer sure given it up permanently. Obama is going to look ancient by the time 2016 rolls around.

    Lord knows I’m not quitting.

    To match your OT, from the Dallas Observer:

    Update, 10:15 a.m.: In a move that’s both tasteless and deeply irresponsible, the New York Post is citing an unnamed “senior Obama administration official” to suggest that the explosion was “suspicious.” Before the article was recently corrected, the Post repeatedly said the explosion had occurred in Waco, not West. At the very bottom, they manage to remember to mention that ” there’s been no suggestion of terrorism at this point,” and quote an unnamed “senior Homeland Security official,” who says, “There is always a possibility that it could be criminal or terrorist-related but that has not been suggested at this point.” Just as a reminder, this is the same paper that claimed that 12 people had died in the Boston bombings, and never actually made a correction. Shut up, New York Post. Please, for once, just shut up.

  115. 115.

    Cassidy

    @Just One More Canuck: C’mon now.

    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy
    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy

    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy
    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy

    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy
    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy
    Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy
    ?Diggy?, said the boogy, said, up jump the boogy

    My name is Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddd Rock

    That’s fuckin’ poetry.

  116. 116.

    MikeJ

    @Just Some Fuckhead: The kid who sat in front of me in freshman year home room went on to become an Elvis impersonator. He seemed nice enough. He was always an ironic impersonator instead of a serious one.

  117. 117.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ben Franklin: Playing the odds. A black market ring of head and arm dealers in MS that is uncovered by an Elvis/Prince/Kid Rock impersonator who mailed ricin to public officials is not one with which I will spend a lot of time.

  118. 118.

    ricky

    @mai naem: Hey, the boys and girls at CNN got in trouble because they trusted bad sources.

    When Jake Tapper gets an exclusive like Obama smoking again, he relies on his own nostrils. That dog pictured in this morning’s open thread has footage of Jake hard at work.

  121. 121.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Save up to $30 on the Graceland “Love Me Tender” package”

    Current Google ad on this page for me…

  122. 122.

    JPL

    @ricky: Well whose ass is he sniffing?

    That dog pictured in this morning’s open thread has footage of Jake hard at work.

  124. 124.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Cassidy:
    If I remember correctly, that line is derived from an older rap song. As for that song, I think it’s pretty good. It was never meant to blow you away with it’s thoughtfulness, it was just meant to be fun.

  126. 126.

    Punchy

    Trafficking in organs is unusual, but not unpossible.

    I’m guessing churches and their chiors are the most likely black-market buyers.

  127. 127.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ben Franklin: A fair point. How about “not one on which I will expend serious thought?”

    Also, if you don’t find the idea of a Kid Rock impersonator both funny and terrifying at the same time, I worry about you.

  131. 131.

    ranchandsyrup

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):

    If I remember correctly, that line is derived from an older rap song. As for that song, I think it’s pretty good. It was never meant to blow you away with it’s thoughtfulness, it was just meant to be fun.

    comes from Busy Bee and later the Sugar Hill Gang used it on Rappers’ Delight.

  134. 134.

    JPL

    uhoh..wingnuts are going to explode…
    Gov. Patrick just said that Massachusetts invented the United States..

  139. 139.

    ricky

    @JPL:

    While it would be obvious to pedestrian reporters that it had to be the dog with the camera whose posterior Mr. Tapper was investigating, according to John King’s exclusive sources in local law enforcement, it was a dark sphinctered
    man whom the FBI denies having in custody.

  141. 141.

    Todd

    @Cassidy:

    Costner was good in 3000 Miles to Graceland.

    We actually walked out within the first 15 minutes on that – something we almost never do. From the stupid graphics of the opening to the really stupid plotline and ridiculous levels of violence that weren’t even close to supporting the plot, that was the worst theater experience we ever endured.

    And we love Tarantino movies, so it isn’t about us being film prudes.

  143. 143.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Punchy:

    Breaking news: J.S. Bach organ stolen, local churches should be on the lookout for shifty dudes looking to fence it.

  145. 145.

    ricky

    @Cassidy:

    That’s a crock of tatankashit.

    However Bokeem Woodbine does break new ground for the black Elvis impersenator genre, and director Demian Lichenstein’s treatment of a budding child crime genius in the subplot deserves mention.

  146. 146.

    Cassidy

    @Todd: @ricky: Bah on both of you. Bokeem Woodbine, Christian Slater doing his “you’re so cool” persona, David Arquette, Kurt Russel and Kevin Costner playing Elvis Impersonators! That was like having a dragon eat a jump suited pheonix and shit sequins while watching an Elvis movie marathon. And Howie Long and Ice T showed up in the end. Kevin Pollack, Thomas Haden Church…how could you not like this film?

  148. 148.

    Yutsano

    @Cassidy:

    Costner was good in 3000 Miles to Graceland

    Costner’s only good movie ever was Bull Durham. And that’s mostly because he didn’t really have to act in it.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Most of the Arquette clan I could do without. But then again I’ve been accused of being uncivil before.

  149. 149.

    ricky

    @Cassidy:

    Truth be told, I did like it. Especially seeing Jon Lovitz snuffed. And you are right about Howie Long, though I worry about him being typecast as a helicopter pilot.

  150. 150.

    Cassidy

    All kidding aside, it was a fun movie to watch, I thought. It had that certain charm that films like Killing Zoe and Way of the Gun had.

  151. 151.

    ricky

    @Yutsano:

    Many others cite Costner’s performance in The Big Chill
    as far superior to any other work. But clearly he owes most of his acclaim in that film to the editors.

  152. 152.

    AHH onna Droid

    @Ben Franklin: That’s right Ben, you tell ‘ em, theres a big, lucrative, not to mention sinister market in severed limbs and heads that have been sitting in the ER morgue awaiting the coroners report.

    They’ve got ted williams on ice, you know, in case they ever need him. Well, just his head, but thats all you need, thaw and suspend in a nutrient bath just like on Futurama.

  153. 153.

    Soonergrunt

    @Ben Franklin:

    I was under the impression nothing has been proven yet, except he’s an Elvis impersonator.
    I guess that makes him guilty of something, somewhere.

    If it doesn’t, it ought to.

  154. 154.

    ricky

    @Yutsano:
    Pardon my reply prior to your editorial addition. Surely the Arquettes are superior to many other sibling acting combinations, although they do not come close to the Cusaks
    and, if you include total contributions to the film industry as well as work as children in television, the Howard boys are up there as well.

  157. 157.

    Another Halocene Human

    @JPL: Maybe it’s the impetus they need to declare their allegiance to the United States instead of the confederacy of states in rebellion or whatever other shit they fap to. (Cf: Republic Of Texas, etc.)

  166. 166.

    PaulW

    @Cassidy:

    @ricky: Costner was good in 3000 Miles to Graceland.

    Ahem. NOBODY was good in 3000 Miles to Graceland.

    They had a good idea – Elvis Impersonators Rob a Casino – and they F-CKED it. They blew the wad in Act One, leaving us with 2/3s of a movie that SUCKED.

  168. 168.

    Citizen Alan

    The coolest Elvis impersonator I have ever seen was a lesbian Elvis impersonator who performed under the name “Elvis Herselfis.” That is all.

    Being from North Mississippi, I imagine I will have a lot to say about this dumbass going forward, but right now, I’m getting ready for a client meeting. That said, everyone on the Left needs to step back from the joking and get serious about this, because while the dumbass was a loon who hated Obama, he was also a self-described Democrat who supported the current Dem candidate for Mayor of Tupelo (who is a friend of mine). There’s also a photo floating around of the dumbass putting a bumpersticker on his car that says “Democrat And Christian.” It’s not going to take a whole lot for the media to pick up on him as being a “disaffected liberal.”

  170. 170.

    ricky

    @Cassidy:

    There’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a family of actors. Suddenly, out of the blue somebody says Charlie Sheen. Or Emilio Estevez. Out of the blue. No explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

  172. 172.

    Mike E

    @? Martin: Dread Zeppelin, best show I had ever seen up to that point hands down. Awesome combo of laughing my ass off and groovin to the tunes. Great experience.

  173. 173.

    ricky

    @Citizen Alan:

    while the dumbass was a loon who hated Obama, he was also a self-described Democrat

    A lot of folk hereabouts fit that description. Hope the FBI don’t go sniffin around for accomlimentarians.

  177. 177.

    Dr. Loveless

    @? Martin:

    How the fuck did we get though 150 comments in an Elvis impersonator thread without a single mention of either Bubba Ho Tep or Dread Zeppelin?

    Or El Vez?

  180. 180.

    priscianus jr

    @Villago Delenda Est: Much to his discredit, he got close enough to Nixon do do something about him, and did nothing (except to volunteer to be a Federal operative in the war on some drugs.)

    But that’s just my point. He RESPECTED Nixon. I dare say he respected everybody in government. Hell, he respected just about everybody, period. Even that con artist Colonel Sanders or whatever the hell his name was.

    (Actually his name was Colonel Tom Parker, but that wasn’t his name. His real name was Dries van Kuijk, a two-bit Dutch con artist who got lucky, and he gets the credit for slowly destroying the career and life of one of the greatest pop artists the world has ever seen. And it was all because Elvis respected him.)

  181. 181.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Sonny, Red, go fetch that man a fried-peanut-butter-‘nana-and-ricin sammich. And give him one of my Cadillacs, too. Hot damn tamales, baby!

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