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OLD PHOTOS HAVE RETURNED!!!!
This one, from 2 long (and oh so eventful and horrible and fun and wild and moody and depressing and surprising and sexy and awkward and hysterical) years ago.
Olivia Wright, ex-LA resident, during our first meet.
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WEEKEND ROLL CALL:
My blog, where I post pictures, music, stuff around the internet that is simply to die for: blog.louobedlam.com
Because money is good, and giving me money is better: BUY MY BOOK!!!!
Hub of my internet empire: MY WEBSITE!!!!!!
Where I am either a)funny or b)very close to funny, in 140 characters or less: TWITTER
And last but not least, 5 people telling 1 story using 5 different mediums: The 5Lights Project
THANK YOU. END OF LINE.
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O' BLOG!!!!!
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Dad got breakfast at Roscoe's this week, so I'll use this Father's Day for the dead.
Fortunately, unlike Quantum Leap, the way way back machine can go beyond my own lifetime.
My grandfather didn't talk about the war much, definitely never talked about the horrors of war i've read about, the things seen in films, talked about by the dwindling number of survivors.
He did talk about how easy French women were, how seeing the survivors at Buchenwald convinced him, sixty years before I came to the same conclusion, that there was no god. He talked about how the black soldiers were just as good as the white soldiers, a fact I think he might have come to retroactively, after helping to raise li'l old me. He talked about driving for Patton, and the value of cigarettes in a continent ravaged by war.
He also told me about how he acquired his first camera. That story's HERE
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Looking back through the photos of his I found after his death, there's little of War. There're snapshots of Europe, of women they met along the way, of German soldiers surrendering, of a concert held for the allied troops at Nuremburg stadium. Of his fellow soldiers. And, though I can't figure out exactly how he came by them, what appear to be two or three shots from a Nazi soldier's camera, of Nazi troops marching in parade formation.
I take a lot of pictures. Do a fair job of documenting my life. But it does make me wonder, knowing how much of my life I don't capture with my camera, what exactly he saw out there. What did he bring back that existed only in his memory.
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One more, because this shit cracks me up.
No idea how old I was, or where I was. But my mom and nana (behind me) sure did seem proud of the fact that I could balance precariously on my feet, mouth agape. These were the two main ladies in my life, and there's not a day I don't think about one or both of 'em. Which is both a blessing and a curse.
My grandmother taught me canasta. Bridge. Tennis. Yiddish. Monopoly. She'd take me to buy comic books, even after my mom had grounded me from such purchases. She'd baby-sit me until my mom got home from work. It would often be li'l Lou O' Bedlam and a living room full of grandmothers as they gossiped and tried out destroy each other at cards. And they all just adored me, because, hell, I was goddamned adorable.
These two ladies surrounded me with unconditional love until the day I split for college.
Which, is both a blessing and a curse.
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