“We’ll see. This is all just guessing and hope right now. But there is a possibility we won’t suck quite as bad this year.”
Spending my morning reading about the Browns.
cleveland
OK, so the former Cuyahoga County Commissioner, Jimmy Dimora, is on trial facing corruption charges & the hearings are taking place in a federal court with no cameras… So every night local news has been acting out a portion of the day’s testimony with puppets and calling it “The Puppet’s Court.” I am not even kidding right now.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“1st of tha Month” by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
I wasn’t on tumblr at all yesterday, so couldn’t reblog this on the actual first.
Who cares though? I’m in Cleveland everyday, so I’ll reblog Bone Thugs whenever I feel like it!
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HotChaCha, “It’s Hard to Be a White Boy in 1992”
File Under: Song Names I Sure Wish I Had Thought Of
![[Illustration of the Hot Sauce Williams on Carnegie and E. 79th — a blue BBQ joint with pink trim. The drawing focuses on the building & its accompanying road sign, the background and surrounding area are filled in with minimal color and details (a few powerlines and buses, a hint of the cityscape in the background.]
juliaincleveland:
Day 15/100
Hot Sauce Williams
You can’t miss this turquoise and pink building on Carnegie and e.79th. The place is so famous for its soul food that it was featured on Anthony Bourdains’ No Reservations. My favorite time to go is Sunday lunch, when everyone comes to eat after their church service dressed in their Sunday best. You’ll see snakeskin shoes, fedoras, and pocket squares on the gentlemen and huge hats with flowers and feathers on the ladies.
I like drawing these locations on the spot, but there are some exceptions where I have to use a photo. I had trouble with HSW because there were no good views in the direct parking lot, so I drove back and forth past the restaurant using one hand to snap photos. Yeah, that wasn’t very safe driving.
I looked through this entire blog (ok, so it’s only 4 pages, whatever) trying to pick out which illustration I would use to accompany a post about how excited I am that aprilmarches will be in Cleveland in three short weeks. While the Cedar Lee and Phoenix on Coventry and Lakeview cemetery and On the Rise are all just moments from my house, I couldn’t not blog this drawing of Hot Sauce Williams because if there’s anywhere I want to end up with April, it’s stuffing our faces with amazing BBQ on Carnegie surrounded by people in their churchgoing finery.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkzupsE91m1qjrf0xo1_1280.jpg)
[Illustration of the Hot Sauce Williams on Carnegie and E. 79th — a blue BBQ joint with pink trim. The drawing focuses on the building & its accompanying road sign, the background and surrounding area are filled in with minimal color and details (a few powerlines and buses, a hint of the cityscape in the background.]
Day 15/100
Hot Sauce Williams
You can’t miss this turquoise and pink building on Carnegie and e.79th. The place is so famous for its soul food that it was featured on Anthony Bourdains’ No Reservations. My favorite time to go is Sunday lunch, when everyone comes to eat after their church service dressed in their Sunday best. You’ll see snakeskin shoes, fedoras, and pocket squares on the gentlemen and huge hats with flowers and feathers on the ladies.
I like drawing these locations on the spot, but there are some exceptions where I have to use a photo. I had trouble with HSW because there were no good views in the direct parking lot, so I drove back and forth past the restaurant using one hand to snap photos. Yeah, that wasn’t very safe driving.
I looked through this entire blog (ok, so it’s only 4 pages, whatever) trying to pick out which illustration I would use to accompany a post about how excited I am that aprilmarches will be in Cleveland in three short weeks. While the Cedar Lee and Phoenix on Coventry and Lakeview cemetery and On the Rise are all just moments from my house, I couldn’t not blog this drawing of Hot Sauce Williams because if there’s anywhere I want to end up with April, it’s stuffing our faces with amazing BBQ on Carnegie surrounded by people in their churchgoing finery.
Coffinberry, “No Cure”
Songs that will always make one feel better: “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen
ohhh come take my hand, we’re riding out tonight to case the promised land
So, when I went to see The Promise last week, one of the things I really loved was hearing Bruce talking about the difference between Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town. He described Born to Run as an album about wanting to escape where you’re from, wanting to get away from the places and people who have defined your life up to that point & build a new life for yourself on your own terms, whereas Darkness on the Edge of Town was an album about honoring where you’re from, about acknowledging how the people you grew up with and the place you grow up in leave a powerful mark on you, help you develop your sense of self, your moral code…
& I guess I feel all of that really, really deeply. I know that home is railroad bridges and train tracks and the rush of the Cuyahoga and Chagrin rivers and packing boxes to make a living and bars that open at 4am and abandoned buildings for the Slovenian Daily News and I feel like such a sap for even saying any of this, but sometimes all I can think about is how hard everyone I know has to work just to get by and how when I went away to school I felt like my socioeconomic status was visibly inscribed by me, especially on the first day of class when professors would make you say your name and where you’re from.
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bone thugs-n-harmony: tha crossroads
Duh, auto-reblog. I am 100% on board with Pitchfork when they say that their performance of “Tha Crossroads” at the ‘96 VMA’s was “the last truly clutch performance by a Cleveland team.” You can watch it here.
