J~
Seeing that (thanks so much for the call!!) was NICE!!
Typing that was about THE SWEETEST THING you could have done for me!
Before our conversation today, I was laid in the shade just ready to devour some blackened redfish & potato casserole @ Wintzell's. http://www.wintzellsoysterhouse.com/

We had a wonderful conversation & it helped me to really enjoy my lunch!

I WANNA OBAMA GOURD 'CAUSE DAT ILLY FOAMED 'FLICTEEFIED BOY definitely beeze a GOURD HEAD!

best,
r

P.S. the rest of this email comes from a post I did in 2005. I includes ELLICOTT plus CONFESSIONS OF A SECTION 8 MAINTENANCE MAN.

Saturday, July 16, 2005

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/surveying/object.cfm?recordnumber=758696
This is the zenith sector Andrew Ellicott used at his astronomical observatory in present day Houston County Alabama in August of 1799.










http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/surveying/objects/640/MAH-77302b.jpg
This is the transit used by Andrew Ellicott in present day Houston County, Alabama in August of 1799.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

ATAMASCO LILY

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

BURIED TREASURE

This blog is also used to remind me of little bits and pieces of stories I can use in my fiction. Well, Robert, don't forget the money under the linoleum[$380, last count], the kinfolks putting grandma in the nursing home before burning her nasty mattress along with their inheritance, the change drawer as a tax dodge and the old bootlegger who stored rolls of one hundred $100 dollar bills in the wall.

Also[by special request]:
THE TOP TEN WAYS YOU KNOW YOUR CHERRY HAS BEEN POPPED AS A SECTION 8 MAINTENANCE MAN!

#10 You come to work in the morning, look in your box and realize you have to call the Poison Control Doctor at the University of Alabama in B'ham immediately.

#9 Your tenant comes to the door casually exposing herself in sleepy disarray and then proceeds to lay on the couch & enjoy herself underneath her blanket while you change out a wall socket.

#8 After you put on your respirator so you can enter the house, you open the kitchen cabinet and find that it is completely filled with boxes of baking soda.

#7 Your tenant goes to court to fight your eviction notice and uses the state attorneys she was given by the Crime Victims Compensation Fund after her teenage daughter was knifed to death by a younger girl who got off on justifiable homicide.

#6 The same tenant threatens to sue your boss because of the snakes that have invaded her bedroom. Because your tenant has spent the previous evening trying to become a Rock Star Without a Guitar and is now higher than a Georgia pine, she neglected to notice that the snake underneath her chest of drawers was her snake print Spandex tights.

#5 You show up for an eviction one hour early only to find a World Class drug deal going down in the apartment of the tenant you are about to evict. When you inform the tenant of the deputy sheriff's anticipated arrival, the tenant says,"Aw, man, I'm cool wid Deputy Green."

#4 With the deputy sheriff in the house of the tenant you are about to evict, you begin to empty the tenant's kitchen cabinets. The tenant objects and says,"My preacher Reverend Cunningham told ya'll I'd be out by tomorrow." As you continue to empty the cabinet, the tenant screams," If you don't get yo' white hands off my shit, Jesus Christ is gonna strike yo' mutha fuckin' white ass dead!"

#3 As you are tearing out the floor of the bathroom of your tenant, you find a Pringle's Potato Chips can filled with individually packaged rocks of crack cocaine. The tenant's adopted son, who had no idea that the floor joists he used to stash his shit underneath the house were also underneath the bathroom floor, enters the bathroom and says,"Give me dat!".

#2 Your tenant, a 46 year old great grandmother who you taught high school biology to in 1977, asks you,"What is Section 8 anyway?" After you explain the features and advantages of living in a privately owned residence supported by Section 8 over the disadvantages of living in a public housing project,the tenant looks at you in a confused way and says," Dat Section 8 don't sound quite right to me. I mean paying for yo' housing, ain't dat what the government 'sposed to do anyway."

And the # 1 way you know you have just had your cherry popped as a Section 8 maintenance man is when you hear your tenant say this to her 50 year old son who still hangs around the family crib:" I don't care how much money yo' friends got. I don't care how big a car they drive. If they come around here, they BLACK ASS BE going to the same place: IN THE GROUND! GOD GUIDES MY HAND! THE LORD JESUS GUIDES MY HAND SO I CAN AIM THIS MOTHA' FUCKIN' PISTOL!