Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Next stop....53
In honor of my birthday, here's an ancient historical photo from the last century. That's me and my parents getting off a train in 1961 or so; I'm not sure where. I was a big boy...dad is carrying me and my mom has his briefcase. A cigarette is dangling from his mouth. Oddly this is probably the only picture I have of the three of us together; most of my childhood photos, and there were never many of them, disappeared after my parents divorced in one of our many moves. They split when I was 9 or 10, and we never stayed in one apartment or house more than three years and usually much less; my father lived in six different states over the next ten years. This photo was probably taken by my grandmother.
Happy birthday me!
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Hey, happy birthday ish!
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ReplyDeleteAnd of course, a very happy birthday Ian.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jon!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday ish. i'm sorry to hear that you have unfortunate memories on your birthday, but if i know you, you'll have a good day.
ReplyDeleteHey freebones, thanks. I actually didn't mean it to come across that way at all...I was just trying to put the photo in context.
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