Picture This

Random photos...




On my way back from the Porn Warehouse in Austin (you'll have to read the previous entries for an explanation. It wasn't for me, it was for a friend. Honest) I saw this guy at an off-ramp to the I-35. He's photogrpahed in the side-mirror to the van I was driving. He was begging at a stop light. On his backpack (which you can't really see clearly) was a sign that said Free Hugs. I felt very guilty that this man was begging while I'd just been entertaining thoughts of buying expensive sex-toys as a throwaway joke. Even though I was sitting in the car with the money and he was begging I felt right then that he had all the dignity in the world compared to me.




'nuff said already. Nashville, who knew you were into this?




This was a sign in the elevator in the hotel in Nashville (which was staffed, incidentally, by the nicest, most polite people in the world. And you know I'm an authority on politeness....). I wondered what prompted the elevator manufacturer to install a sign like this? Lack of confidence? And to be honest, if you got in an elevator and it had an in-built giant sign that said (effectively) "Dont' Panic" wouldn't that kind of undermine the message?




This soldier standing next to a printing press was on a platform about 12 feet in the air outside a printers. At first I thought it was touching how someone had dressed him up as a soldier - this is the heartland after all and they were probably missing someone sent over to invade Iraq - but when I thought about it some more it scared me. Someone had bought a uniform and dressed a mannequin as a soldier then managed to position him on a platform twelve feet up in the air. It didn't strike me as a yellow ribbon tied round an old oak tree as much as it struck me as a big fuck-you. One would have to be quite angry to go to those lengths.