37th Street Freeze-Out

3737 West Ashland. After a fire that took a day and a million gallons of water to put out. The building owner has been in jail since bribing an alderman.

Those Cock-Knocking Birds

On my front lawn, in the trees facing my yard, in the tree branches hanging over my garage. Why? Why?

Artifacts That I Own

GHOST LOVE REDUX

Back in January of 2010, I posted about the Insane Unknowns. All I really had to offer was that, as a decades-old gang on the northside, they coined a very unique name. Today I received three emails that I put in my spam folder (based on the user profile bein new and without information). Here's the contents:

TO THE LINCOLN & WRIGHTWOOD SET OF INSANE UNKNOWNS...GET IN TOUCH WITH ME BY E-MAIL...CHINO,SPEEDY,MIDGET,SPANKY,SHAFT,MAMA UNKNOWNS-ORTEGA

INSANE TO THE BRAIN-UNKNOWNS TO THE HEART...THATS WHAT US SR A.I.U.K.N. WAS ABOUT FROM LINCOLN,WRIGHWOOD,SHEFFIELD SET...WE HAD INSANE FUN DOING AWAY WITH THEM WANNA BE PBC'S TRYING TO WEAR OUR BLACK & WHITE COLORS...CHINO,BENJY,SPEEDY,BOO-BOO,POPEYE,COWBOY,TOKYO,MIDGET,MANUEL,NONO,BIG BIRD,PIRATE,MOBY,CASPER,HORSE,FLACO,BUBBA'S,MAMA UNKNOWN-ORTEGA...REMEMBER US AS WE STILL DO CAPONE...ONCE IUK...ALWAYS IUK

INSANE TO THE BRAIN...UNKNOWNS TO THE HEART...THATS WHAT US UNKNOWS FROM LINCOLN, WRIGHTWOOD, SHEFFIELD WHERE ABOUT...CHINO,BENJY, BOO BOO, POPEYE,SPEEDY,CASPER,MIDGET,CRAZY HORSE,MOBY,PIRATE,TOYKO,FLACO...COWBOY,NONO,BIG BIRD,RED,MAMA UNKNOWN-ORTEGA...AND MANY MORE...WHAT AN INSANE TIME WE HAD...BREAKING DOWN THEM WANNABE PBC'S...(PUNKS,BITCHES,CUNTS)...CALIFORNIA? 










Gang life, everybody.

Main Street Mansions, Shelbyville

This last house sure had a lot of outdoor seating.

More of Main Street, Shelbyville

More photos from my trip to Kentucky last month. Ivy and wreaths on houses, broken down railroad trestles.

Shelbyvilly, Kentucky

I have more photos that I need to shrink down in size, but these are a start. The day of my Auntie Emma's wake, I walked along Main Street, downhill from Shannon's Funeral Home. You know me and my train tracks. I'll post more photos soon.

The Kate Bolduan Experiment

Aside from the last two, these are photos I took with my old Walgreens digital off of CNN. Out of curiosity, I want to see if this link shows up on Google soon and also, if it pops up when I type my name in. I've had the strangest blog entries pop up in Google Images.