I don’t have so much to say this week. I have lots of new flickr sets though.
Liam is playing inline hockey these days. He’s got this gladiator streak in him, and when he found out that every kid on the team gets to wear more gear than a baseball catcher, he fell in love with the game. When he found out that the goalie gets to wear even more gear…
A couple of weeks back, the Carries kicked those sissy bitch Rinkwraith’s asses. Some guy behind me was really taken with Little Miss Ruffit. “Yo, Ruffit, kick some ass, baby”. Dangerblond says to me, “Ray, do you know that guy?” and I said “No, but I imagine I’ll get to know him soon”…
Liam had to pick a historic figure to do a report on at school, and since he’d heard me talking about Buddy Bolden a few weeks back when we wrecked Ms. Cora’s house, he decided to do his on Bolden. So we got to go around the city taking pictures of some of the places in Bolden’s life, many of which still exist and are sadly not marked with any kind of historic plaque or anything. He’s buried in an unmarked grave in Holt Cemetery, which is where people who are too poor to be interred in above-ground tombs go to be buried in the ground. It’s a neat place…sad in a way to see it in such disrepair, but fascinating to how people without a lot of money honor their deceased…
Pictures from Voodoo Music and Halloween when I get some time.
What’s Holt looking like these days? I haven’t been out there since May and was pretty upset at the level of “abnormal” disaray I found it at that time. Holt has never ever looked “good,” but after the Storm it looked completely abandoned by the city and the families who help take care of it. On All Saints Day previous years, many of us took it upon ourselves to help clean the place up.
Still, a fascinating place–full of history.
I don’t know what it looked like before the storm, but it was looking pretty unkempt this week. You can see some of the other pictures showing where things have been pretty scrambled by the flood and not yet put back.
I wish I had All Saints Day off work so I could go help clean up. Oh well.
Great photos brutha. And tell your boy goalies are fuckin’ cool.
Who gets to carry the bag containing all that hockey gear (asks the woman who’s spent the last ten or twelve years with a trunk full of catcher’s gear)? He looks way cool, Dad.
You have to ask?
LOL. Mostly a rhetorical question.
I’m just popping in hoping you’re doing okay. Your pre-election post was intensely moving. I live in a state that just got redder (more red?), but I’m feeling much better about the rest of the country. Peace, darlin’.
I’m doing OK, just hella busy. Thanks for asking, hon.