Feb 11
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Boney M. 🎶 Ma Baker
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Bon Matin 💙🎸🎹 🥁
Boney M. 🎶 Ma Baker
Ma Barker (1873-1935)
I guess I kind of imagine Ma Gunn to be post-retirement Ma Baker. New name, new racket that's not as physically intensive. By the time Jason's all grown up, she's just completely old and mellow. And like sure, sometimes, she wistfully remembers the good ol' days and smiles, but all her sons are dead and buried now (she's only gotten to visit the graves of two of them, the ones buried in locations unknown to the authorities), and she hasn't needed money in decades, so it's kinda like
Yeah. I'll take this little funky freak back in. He's a nice boy, treats me with a lot more kindness than most young people allot to old ladies, and a good cook. Not to mention he's a real fun maniac with wild and bloody ideas about how to achieve his vision which he loves to share with me over tea, packaged with the Bat-nurtured ridiculously high level of competence to back it all up. He makes me forget my age. Also he works too hard and needs to eat more, and he's smelled like stale Batburger wrappers all week so I'm breaking into his flat while he's off with his goons (nice new lock, idiot. get it at a discount store? that took like ten seconds (note: it's literally a top-of-the-line gift from bruce)), and i'm making him a big batch of stew and freezing most of it for reheating later. Also, here's a cherry pie I'll leave on the counter. I didn't bake it; I conned my dumb (but talented baker) neighbor into it by telling her it's for charity. Heh. Anyway, off to bingo night and then tea and knitting with the girls. Unfortunately, the knitting is for REAL charity but never you mind. So long as Jason doesn't catch wind. I have a reputation to maintain. *absentmindedly slips a fat roll of old non-sequential bennys and a piece of hard candy into the pocket of his jacket hanging near the door on her way out*
Boney M. - Ma Baker
A lot of criminals from the 20s and 30s in America entered the folklore of the country, but it still baffled me how many times i've seen the story of Ma Barker influence media. I've seen it at least twice, both times in the 60s and 70s. Batman 1966 had a villian modelled after her (Ma Parker as played by Shelley Winters), and the european disco group Boney M had a song loosely based on her in the form of Ma Baker. I want to say there was a lot more inspiration on media from Ma Barker, but my mind is not thinking of it as clearly right now.
But I suppose it makes sense it entered the folklore and public consciousness. A mother who led her kids on a crime wave across the Midwestern US? That's pretty interesting. Whether it's all true or not, I can't say. But the idea of it all? I see why it fascinated people. A family crime empire, and all led by one older woman. It was probably revolutionary as a story for 20th century america. It's like... it's the same way we still know of people like Al Capone or Billy the Kid or Jesse James. They were real people, but the myth becomes more powerful than the truth. And that is always fascinating.
