#ma baker

Boney M. 🎶 Ma Baker

Ma Barker (1873-1935)

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

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.