Sturgis Guns. Murica reigns supreme. No health care, no family leave, lousy internet (most of the country), poverty on the increase, and drug abuse is rampant. But, by God, one thing we've got in quantities that no other nation on earth has, is a gun for every man woman and child. Yes, leading the way to a saner world. [Sturgis, South Dakota]: photo by akahawkeyefan, 23 June 2017
Sturgis Guns. Murica reigns supreme. No health care, no family leave, lousy internet (most of the country), poverty on the increase, and drug abuse is rampant. But, by God, one thing we've got in quantities that no other nation on earth has, is a gun for every man woman and child. Yes, leading the way to a saner world. [Sturgis, South Dakota]: photo by akahawkeyefan, 23 June 2017
Sturgis Guns. Murica reigns supreme. No health care, no family leave, lousy internet (most of the country), poverty on the increase, and drug abuse is rampant. But, by God, one thing we've got in quantities that no other nation on earth has, is a gun for every man woman and child. Yes, leading the way to a saner world. [Sturgis, South Dakota]: photo by akahawkeyefan, 23 June 2017
Blowing up other people's houses when our own are falling down may seem kind of dumb but we've got the weapons to do the job so let's get after it
Already
at Raqqa we're tracking reported civilian casualties as bad as anything
we saw at Aleppo. Urgent Coalition attention needed now: image via Airwars @airwars, 24 June 2017
"Indifference
or ineffectiveness of any kind towards civilian protection is the
surest possible gateway to defeat" @FredericHof on Syria: image via James Denselow @jamesdenselow, 23 June 2017
Two boys comfort each other after their house collapsed from fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants in Mosul. @felipedana: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 24 June 2017
#Iraq
An Iraqi paramedic calms a child, who suffered shock following a
suicide attack as they were escaping Mosul. Photo Mohamed El-Shahed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2017
#Iraq Mosul's destroyed ancient leaning minaret known as the "Hadba" in the Old City after being blown up by IS fighters. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2017
#Philippines People converse in a house on the breakwater of Manila Bay in Manila Photo @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2017
#Spain
More than 1500 people were evacuated after a fire broke out at a nature
reserve in Donana National Park near Mazagon. Photo @cristinaquicler: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2017
#Venezuela A lorry burns in Caracas during a demonstration against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Photo @jbarreto1974
#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2017
#Saudi Arabia Muslim worshippers pray at the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
Photo Bandar Aldandani
#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 June 2017
space (the final frontier). 5315 W. Madison, with rear view of 5310, 5312 and 5316 W. Monroe, all built in 1916 [Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 5 May 2011
Spiritual Awareness and Elevation (under the Lake Street EL). SW corner of Lake and Kilpatrick. Currently the Spiritual Awareness Church (in blue), built in 1879, four years before the arrival of the Elevated. [Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 19 September 2016
street food. (Columbus Park) [South Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 16 August 2016
pigeon drop. NE corner of North and Harlem. [Galewood, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 19 October 2016
diamond reclamation. (Columbus Park Ballfield #1). 601 block of S. Austin [South Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 19 October 2016
The public golf course on the other side of the hill saw heavy use in the summer. The first fairway abutted on the backside of that wooded rise. (Calling it a "hill" or a "rise", by the way, feels odd... some sort of intentional earth-deposit by humans one supposes.) The weeds and rough crabgrass along the fairway were thick enough to easily conceal a golf ball and a common summer pastime for boys was a form of "caddying" that consisted of shadowing bereft duffers whose drives had gone astray. As those who had lost their balls poked around forlornly in the weeds and crabgrass clumps, stranded by the rest of an impatient, and now departed, foursome, impromptu "caddies" appeared at the edge of the fairway to offer "help" with the finding of disappeared balls. The balls had in fact had already been found -- and concealed, so as to be sold back to the owners at convenience, ten cents per "discovered" ball. Heavy clouds lay low upon the park in the afternoons. Sometimes it rained. So passed those long slow moderately boring summer days.
This was a world of humans with no place in it for creatures of other kinds. There was a certain amount of casual animal life that existed strictly inside the perimeter and permission of the aforementioned always busy human domain. Austin Boulevard, the city's western boundary, ran along the west end of the park and was very heavily trafficked. The wisdom of staying out of the street didn't have to be explained to kids who lived on that street. Human life, even primitive human life, tends to wish to preserve itself, in some fashion. Jackson Boulevard wound its way right through the park and was also heavily trafficked. Humanity has sense enough to protect itself from imminent danger. Humanity knows trouble might be coming at any time, from other humanity. Most of those few animals one ever saw were unfortunate ones, dead, having been pancaked into the street in some random vehicular encounter. Animals are not born with an instinctive understanding of humanity and its ways. None of us kids had pets nor knew anyone who did. I don't remember anyone having or anyway ever expressing feelings about any of this.
napping in the rough (Columbus Park Golf Course). 5701 W. Jackson [South Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 1 June 2017
fair skies over fairway. 1st hole fairway at Columbus Park, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd. [Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 27 June 2016
Do The Right Thing. Stockton, CA.: photo by Billy, 2 September 2016
space (the final frontier). 5315 W. Madison, with rear view of 5310, 5312 and 5316 W. Monroe, all built in 1916 [Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 5 May 2011
Spiritual Awareness and Elevation (under the Lake Street EL). SW corner of Lake and Kilpatrick. Currently the Spiritual Awareness Church (in blue), built in 1879, four years before the arrival of the Elevated. [Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 19 September 2016
street food. (Columbus Park) [South Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 16 August 2016
pigeon drop. NE corner of North and Harlem. [Galewood, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 19 October 2016
diamond reclamation. (Columbus Park Ballfield #1). 601 block of S. Austin [South Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 19 October 2016
I
don't remember the grass ever being this thick and green. By the middle of June,
the diamond would have been all bare brown scuffed dirt, worn into dust by constant use.
We played ball all day in the summertime. That hill in left field
seemed a lot steeper than it looks here. In winter it was used by kids
as an impromptu sled run. The sled track was a long slot worn into the
field along the third base line and extending up the wooded rise to the
top of the hill. In the trees at the top of that wooded rise ran a path
that divided the west side of the park from the city golf links just to
the east. The path was unlit and quite spooky at night. We had heard
the legends of strange, devious men lurking darkly in those trees and the accompanying tales of ominous consequences potentially if not inevitably attendant upon venturing therein. These legends and rumours might have made scaling that hill to snag a fly ball
in the late innings of a pickup game, as twilight shadows fell, a
fraught adventure, had we taken them as seriously as we perhaps ought to have done. Though, looking back, I suppose one has to wonder. Was it just the suffocating influence of the devout Catholic moms, with their wilding urban mythic ritual to romance imaginations? That's the truly awful thing about looking back, though, isn't it -- the pathetic, gaping wondering.
The public golf course on the other side of the hill saw heavy use in the summer. The first fairway abutted on the backside of that wooded rise. (Calling it a "hill" or a "rise", by the way, feels odd... some sort of intentional earth-deposit by humans one supposes.) The weeds and rough crabgrass along the fairway were thick enough to easily conceal a golf ball and a common summer pastime for boys was a form of "caddying" that consisted of shadowing bereft duffers whose drives had gone astray. As those who had lost their balls poked around forlornly in the weeds and crabgrass clumps, stranded by the rest of an impatient, and now departed, foursome, impromptu "caddies" appeared at the edge of the fairway to offer "help" with the finding of disappeared balls. The balls had in fact had already been found -- and concealed, so as to be sold back to the owners at convenience, ten cents per "discovered" ball. Heavy clouds lay low upon the park in the afternoons. Sometimes it rained. So passed those long slow moderately boring summer days.
This was a world of humans with no place in it for creatures of other kinds. There was a certain amount of casual animal life that existed strictly inside the perimeter and permission of the aforementioned always busy human domain. Austin Boulevard, the city's western boundary, ran along the west end of the park and was very heavily trafficked. The wisdom of staying out of the street didn't have to be explained to kids who lived on that street. Human life, even primitive human life, tends to wish to preserve itself, in some fashion. Jackson Boulevard wound its way right through the park and was also heavily trafficked. Humanity has sense enough to protect itself from imminent danger. Humanity knows trouble might be coming at any time, from other humanity. Most of those few animals one ever saw were unfortunate ones, dead, having been pancaked into the street in some random vehicular encounter. Animals are not born with an instinctive understanding of humanity and its ways. None of us kids had pets nor knew anyone who did. I don't remember anyone having or anyway ever expressing feelings about any of this.
napping in the rough (Columbus Park Golf Course). 5701 W. Jackson [South Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 1 June 2017
fair skies over fairway. 1st hole fairway at Columbus Park, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd. [Austin, Chicago, Illinois]: photo by curtis locke, 27 June 2016
Do The Right Thing. Stockton, CA.: photo by Billy, 2 September 2016
Los Angeles. Freeway close.: photo by Andrew Murr, 14 October 2016
[Victorville, CA.]: photo by Ape Flavored 10 October 2015
Sad Happy Liquor. Fresno, CA.: photo by Jim Johnson, 24 June 2017
Sad Happy Liquor. Fresno, CA.: photo by Jim Johnson, 24 June 2017
Sad Happy Liquor. Fresno, CA.: photo by Jim Johnson, 24 June 2017
Tattoos [Jackson, Mississippi]: photo by Andrew Murr, 24 June 2017
Lucy in the Sky. Stockton, CA.: photo by Billy, 24 June 2017
Brown dodge tattoo [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 23 June 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2017
Green River [Utah]: photo by Andrew Murr, 31 May 2017
Put a Bird On It. Stockton, CA.: photo by Billy, 29 May 2017
Wisconsin: photo by John, 14 June 2017
Do Go [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 18 June 2017
North 59th Avenue. Glendale, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 6 May 2017
North 59th Avenue. Glendale, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 6 May 2017
North 59th Avenue. Glendale, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 6 May 2017
Night ladder [eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 22 June 2017
Untitled [south LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 22 June 2017
Death of a Salesman. Stockton, CA.: photo by Billy, 6 June 2017
Dresser in Bedroom Abandoned Time Capsule: photo by Freaktography, 28 May 2017
Saddle & Spur Tavern. Douglas, AZ.: photo by Debra Ann Seltzer, 7 June 2017
Spanish Trail Motel. Tucson, AZ.: photo by Debra Ann Seltzer, 7 June 2017
Towne Crier Steakhouse. Abilene, TX.: photo by Debra Ann Seltzer, 11 June 2017
[Route 66, Barstow, CA,]: photo by Ape Flavored 10 October 2015
[Route 66, Barstow, CA,]: photo by Ape Flavored 10 October 2015
[Route 66, Barstow, CA,]: photo by Ape Flavored 10 October 2015
Carry Out [Baltimore]: photo by Andrew Murr, 16 June 2017
Algodones, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2016
Algodones, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2016
Algodones, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, June 2016
Two parked Caddies, one dead leaf [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 19 June 2017
Gray [Portland]: photo by bnnzai9, 10 June 2017
Untitled [Portland]: photo by bnnzai9, 24 June 2017
Clarksdale, Saturday night [Mississippi]: photo by Andrew Murr, 24 June 2017
TOWER POWER. St. George, Utah.: photo by akahawkeyefan, 21 June 2017
TOWER POWER. St. George, Utah.: photo by akahawkeyefan, 21 June 2017
TOWER POWER. St. George, Utah.: photo by akahawkeyefan, 21 June 2017
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