1999mar05. Yes, my little web-kittens, it is Friday. And what is Friday if it is not “Friday Free-Day"? That is a good question. You are quite the smarty-smart!
Our first exhibit is a photograph of Chicago, Illinois, taken in January of 1993. In some ways, I think this photo adequately captures the best and worst of Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago, Illinois. January 1993.
Now I will tell a story. Doc was watching a program about The Nazis the other day, and tried to make a dollar bet with me.
If you know anything about Doc, it’s to never take a bet with him – see, for instance, this or this.
So we’re chatting via ICQ, as people are wont to do nowadays, and out of the blue he says:
i’ll give you a dollar if anyone mentions “nazi pants.” i get a dollar from you if anyone mentions “nifty” and “nazis”
The “nifty"/"nazis” was a callback to an earlier conversation. “Nazi pants” was a lame joke I made roughly a year ago:
Hitler put his pants on one leg at a time, like everyone else.
But they were NAZI PANTS
This may be one of the very few times that Doc has offered to bet on something for which he does not know the outcome. Or ... DOES he? I refuse. Twenty minutes into the program, he transcribes the most recent sentence:
“Hitler was fond of chocolates and sweets, and was fond of wearing NAZI PANTS”
Should have taken that damned Nazi bet. (2006: He finally mentioned that he was lying. See, my defenses are legion, but if you’re on my side of the wall, I’m just a big pushover)
Our last piece is a shopkeeper’s “Open” sign. These signs cost seventy-nine cents at my local hardware store. The actual design is very old, and no one really knows who created the original sign. It is one of those things.
Open sign.
Perhaps next week the “Closed” sign will be available for viewing. Perhaps my hardware store will have it in stock by then. It’s very Californian to just stay open all the time, I guess.
Also, if you have read this far, perhaps you would be interested in the new All About entry into the All About Gallery. It sort of snuck in when nobody was looking.