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Here’s me:

You will sink in a mire. You like to think you’re
normal, but deep down you really just want to
strip off your clothes and roll around in
chicken fat.

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?

I’m making this costume for an upcoming party.

I have the head-mounted circular sawblade so far…

any other suggestions?

~ Connor

Elisabeth won a fifth of rum from me, simply by submitting her page and a half on pirates vs. ninja. (Last months blog game.)

I will be posting my rebuttal shortly.

Here it is:

* * * * *

Definitely pirate.

A couple points first:

~ If the photos here seem to be better than what I usually post here, it’s becaue they’re not mine. I took my camera to California, but wasn’t able to procure any film until the last day.

It’s been awhile since I straight up said what’s happened lately.

The last time I really wrote in detail was around the end of July, when I got back from Flint. It already seems to have been a long time ago.

Just to reorientate yourselves, I’m posting this at 8:38, though for most of you who will read this, the time is now 10:40 or 11:40.

I’m in Ojai, California. At the Ojai Playwrights Conference.

I’m pretty much busy dawn to dusk, but I still think it’s likely I’ll be able to slip in here and post something new (I got pulled away by the whole Canaryville thing for awhile).

EUPHEMISM. Part 6. “Carlotta Tames the Wild Onion” Chapter 40. Section B. aka

CANARYVILLE BLUES

FIRST REVISION

CHARACTERS

Patrick O’Connell, white* male, 22

Katie “Kidd” Finn, Irish American female, 19

Mary “Sis” Finn, Irish American female, 10

Bridgett “Mom” Finn, Irish American female, 38

Patty “Gramps” Finn, Irish American male, 62

Carlotta, white female, early 30s

Maurice “Cranks” “Leavitt” Branson, black male, 72

Marcos Ortubez, Mexican American male, 18

Katherine O’Toole, Irish American female, 20

Cassidy Freeman, white female, 28

Pat Keening, white male, 20

Bridgit Rodriguez, mixed female, 21

Ricardo Campi, Colombian American male, 22

Maria Sanchez, Mexican American female, 19

SYNOPSIS

ACT ONE

Scene One: Monday afternoon

Scene Two: Monday evening

Scene Three: Monday night

ACT TWO

Scene One: Wednesday afternoon

Scene Two: Wednesday evening

Scene Three: Wednesday night

SETTING

Time: October 2002.

The pictures featured in the last post were taken on Tuesday, July 27th.

I walked to Canaryville via McKinley Park, Pershing, Racine, and Exchange. I photographed the Stockyards Arch and Bank, walked south on Halsted photographing the International Amphitheatre, Hart Plaza, and the remnants, than wove my way east and west, heading back north to the tracks.

EDIT: This post contains my personal impressions of Canaryville as collected through July 2004 by visiting the neighborhood, reading, and interviewing residents. I undertstand that there are some factual errors here, but as this is not a project I am actively working on, I have not made changes.

The pilot of the Orange Line drifted a bit when pulling into the Halsted Street stop.  He pulled up on the brakes suddenly to avoid shooting past the end of the platform, and we well went stumbling to the floor.