Spitball Army

In just a two-block area of Avondale, I spied most of these sights. The painted wall advertisement seems to have had a lively life in this small enclave of old brick buildings. Avondale “Center” had, until the past few years, been populated mainly by used car lots, rundown gas stations and crumbling buildings. Things have […]

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Half a block from where I work, a Ninja Fireworks stand sits in the corner of the Raceway filling station. Next door to the Raceway, in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart, a fireworks stand three times the size of the Ninja truck sits. They are called TNT. The fellow at the TNT stand told […]

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An asymptomatic condition of some concern to my primary physician found me sitting in a specialist’s examining room on a recent morning. Pushed up alongside one wall was the examination table: a well-worn piece of equipment with cracking leather corners, faded paint on its legs forcing a resemblance to an abandoned pommel horse base circa […]

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) A burned (and cracked) CD supposedly containing music by the Wu-Tang Clan, discarded and nestled in the crotch of the sidewalk on the Richard Arrington Blvd. bridge, Birmingham, Alabama, as seen on 6 April 2011.

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) The “Temporary Sidewalk Repair” sign has been up for a pretty long time, but not nearly as long as the sidewalk beneath it has been covered “temporarily” with asphalt.  I first noticed the supposedly-interim walkway at least two years ago, and I’m not always quick to notice these kinds of things. Seen off […]

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) A hand-painted relief on the wall of a building along Richard Arrington Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama, as seen on 6 April 2011.

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) The sidewalk on the Richard Arrington Blvd. bridge, Birmingham, Alabama, as seen on 6 April 2011.  There’s some crazy parallax thing going on here…do you see it?

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) As seen from the Richard Arrington Blvd. bridge in Birmingham, Alabama, on 6 April 2011.

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