signs of the times

Though not really. He was more or less given a few days to come up with the final $200 of his rent, and he couldn’t do it.

He’s been here six years.

O. has been here for 6 years. This is the last of his stuff, he's gone now.

A town known for both its indigent population as well as preppy faction.

PS, people, I fixed the image upload problem, now it will work.

hello and welcome to our new authors! 

just dropping in to say i’ve hooked us up with technorati, tho i’ve yet to put up a badge in our sidebar. we also have 13 authors now.

authors, please link from your own blogroll. and it wouldn’t hurt at some point to make a post about the blog. to make it easy, you can also link to my original post.

 i’ll do a little more artification of the whole thang soon. thanks all.

talked to molina on phone ayer. she’s worried about her prescription, cant afford to renew it. said if she had to she’d walk across the street and ask her neighbor to borrow $20. she’s talkin frustratedly about the scary possibility of working at a walmart or something now. this is the chica who right now has a painting being donated to the chicago mexican american museum. who owned an art magazine. bit of a small rock star for a while, way back.

walmart? damn.

mother in law was told last night that her position has been phased out.

this blog is a group effort to chronicle the oncoming economic depression and all its signs and symptoms. just to keep a record. as i imagine it, most of the posts will be short. snippets. fotos. as if writing on a wall, or notes to keep and remember. but there is no hard rule in place.

perhaps action will spring out of it all. maybe this blog can also be a way for people to find work or give away goods or pass on hints and tips. i have a feeling we’re all gonna need each other real soon even more than we do now. despite the positive moves being made by our socialist prez.