A Few Things

 On my mind:

Urban Renewal

 Babe Ruth’s childhood home is now shallow center field of Camden Yards.

Leonard Nimoy grew up in Boston’s West End, a diverse immigrant neighborhood. What’s there now? MGH and a bunch of fancy shmancy, tall apartment buildings.

Curtis Mayfield comes from Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green projects (its ‘renewal' into mostly posh apartment buildings hasn’t been completed yet). OK, that was just the last of the neighborhoods in which he lived as a child. 

By the by, Cabrini-Green is one of the Chicago neighborhoods I played with the carnival.

TeeVee

Yesterday we watched another ep of Wynnona Earp. This one featured the, not seen before, tip top bad guy. He’s so vile that even the other bad guys hate him (think Ben Chapman or anyone else in baseball with a bad rep versus Ty Cobb). Mr. Evil Dude, Lou, was identical to this weird-ass grad student (named Mark) who ‘taught’ one of my painting classes back in college.  

In one session grad Mark asked me, in a hushed, embarrassed kind of way, to button up my shirt. I said no. 

Two things:

• This was the late ‘70s fer fuck’s sake! Try to remember the fashions back then.
• I modeled for drawing classes (that and the carnival is how I worked my way through college). There wasn’t a student or prof who hadn’t seen me naked. For that matter, at one party, I was chatting with some guy—I recognized him but not vice versa. He remarked ‘oh, I’ve never seen you with your clothes on before.’ He wasn’t trying to be funny or flirty.

So, this grad assistant was just being an uptight skeeve. He went on to become a small box preacher. Not terribly surprising.

The great Big Bad Lou was the spitting image of painting class Mark. //shudder// WAY creepy.

Cold

It’s 22º out at the mo and I’ve the stone audacity to call that cold. Granted, I feel a right to bitch seeing as it’s a balmy 37º in fucking McMurdo, Antarctica. On the other hand in the Arctic Circle, specifically, Inuvik in the Northwest Territories of Canada it’s currently 7º. So, I need to just shut the hell up about it being cold out.

Right?