Spitball Army

Another day off, another mid-day movie, another theater all to myself. Until, that is, the film started and an elderly man (yes, you wise-acre, older than me) came in and, unlike yesterday, sits behind me. He went all the way to the back row, in fact. His loud throat-clearing didn’t bother me at all, as […]

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So, today, on a day off from work, and still needing to avoid sunlight due to last Friday’s PDT (photo-dynamic therapy – I think that’s the translation – for that skin stuff), I decide to take in an 11 A.M. movie. It wasn’t hard to understand why I was the only person in the theater, […]

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The silver Toyota Corolla weaved from lane to lane in its own slow time, without signaling, as if the driver was oblivious to the fact that it was the morning rush hour. Its head and tail lights were off. On the rear window was a decal that originally might have read “Write your love in […]

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All the ball fields in Avondale Park are occupied with games and onlookers; their cars line the surrounding streets. There’s a light pollen haze in the air. White blooming dogwood trees invade one’s line of sight in every direction. There goes a bike. Smoke is snaking from Saw’s barbecue joint. Inside the nearby library, Miss […]

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(photo: spitballarmy.com) A reflection of modernism in the windows of the old Massey Building on Richard Arrington Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama, as seen on 6 April 2011.

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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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