Some Real American Graffiti

I got my tired, loopy out of shape ass out of the house today and went for a walk!  Good news, bad news.  First, the Good News.  I got to walk a whole mile.  The Bad News, when I got home I knelt down to feed the dog, lost my weakened balance and did a face-plant right onto, fortunately, the carpet just missing the 5 pound Pomeranian we have and sending the bowl of dogfood flying across the living room.  I got up, collected my thoughts, “Am I OK?  I didn’t get dizzy, I just lost my balance and made a fool out of myself in front of both of our dogs”.  I’m sure even dogs would laugh at what I did if they could.  Come to think of it, they bolted out of the kitchen area and hid for at least an hour.  Shit, I didn’t even swear when it happened.  Good Ativan and Zoloft! No harm no foul.

So I did take that walk down McHenry Avenue,  a sprawling 8 lane thoroughfare with every fast food outlet known to man on one end near all the car lots and the old part of town at the other end.  My little sojourn out today put me at the far north end near the car lots and fast food places and one of the Walmarts.  Yes, there are two Walmarts in this dinkly little town.  Somehow, this makes sense in Modesto.

I wanted to take some pictures on the street during my walk.  For the most part, I centered on getting shots of graffiti, very prevalent in this town.  There is a Graffiti Taskforce that I see out and about painting over new graffiti on brick walls, giving the little shitball graffitists a fresh, brand new canvas to deface again next week.  It’s just hard to keep up with little or no budget. Regarding the graffiti itself…it’s of horrible sub-quality.  Yeah, that’s right…it’s even shitty graffiti done mostly by local neighborhood terds trying to show their girlfriend what marvelous, ballsy aritistes they are!  They should have their pea-sized nutsacks squeezed off and handed to their parents, “Did you have any idea that your worthless little Johnny was doing this?”

So,  it wasn’t a very productive day as you can see.  At this point in my career as a photographer and human being…I’m just trying to keep my head above water.  When I finally get this crap out of my system I can really assess the whole deal…me.  In the meantime I do the best I can do at this point in time.  Including getting motivated to write something here.

By the way, these few graffiti shots on McHenry are from a one block section on one side of the street.  All the good stuff is on the bridges and overpasses.