Spitball Army

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This vintage postcard pictures a “storm, Oceanside, Calif.,” and is prettified with green and blue washes of watercolor. Storms at sea are quite a bit darker than this, but I imagine there wouldn’t be much of a market for a postcard that had dark and forbidding beaches on its front. The postmark on the back of the postcard is 1 September 1913 – for a look at a storm at the Oceanside Pier nearly a decade later, see the shot I took – below – in December of last year.

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Tomorrow the print version of The New York Times will run a story entitled “36 Hours in Birmingham, Ala.” written by Jim Noles, but today it is up on the newspaper’s website. Noles hit many of the high points – the bragging points – of our city, including Frank Stitt’s Highlands Bar & Grill and the Hot & Hot Fish Club, Vulcan Park, Workplay, the Civil Rights Museum. All of the photographs are by my neighbor, fellow Crestwoodian Gary Tramontina.

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Seen on Georgia Road, East Birmingham:

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You’ll dig this: a video mash-up of M.O.P.’s “Ante Up” with footage of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street.

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The Orchestra Rocks;
celery;
interactive journalism

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It was rooted in the corner of a corner lot, dwarfing the Spanish-style bungalow next to it. Its branches extended high and far out over the street in all directions, safely out of danger from the automobile traffic below, and sheltering the pedestrians and others, like me, on bicycles. I would slow my pedaling to marvel at this tree whenever I rode up the hill to Laurel Road, and would slow my coasting when I returned on the downhill route to Laguna Street. The tree’s age and size seemed to engender respect automatically. I called it “Old Man Tree.”

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