during the past week of lame-o posting here at rubber hose, richard cranium of the all spin zone has been doing a series of non-lame-o posts following the story of a non-blonde, non-white young woman who disappeared in not-aruba (although south philly, admittedly, is almost the same). even though the woman is even pregnant, for some reason it just isn't getting the wall-to-wall coverage one would expect from the disappearance of a young woman.
lot's of bigger wigs than me in blogistan have already linked to richard's posts, but better late than never. the first post is here with several follow-ups here and here and here and here.
i'm not trying to take away from the seriousness of natalee holloway's disappearance (though i do question some of the media-mania surrounding it when other people who disappear are ignored). and i don't think richard is either. in conjunction with the citizen's crime commission of delaware valley the all spin zone has established a reward to help locate latoyia figueroa. you can donate to the reward fund by following the instructions in this post.
richard's efforts are garnering small payoffs. figueroa is still missing, but her disappearance is slowly trickling it's way into the press, largely due to richard's efforts.
