[But this is a city whose appeal, as a place to visit and to live, has always had more to do with an extensive, tightly woven fabric of residential neighborhoods than with architectural icons. Tennessee Williams noted precisely that quality in the stage directions for] A Streetcar Named Desire ... is poor but, unlike corresponding sections of other American cities, it has a raffish charm. |
It's like, Coheed and Cambria meets Beloved, |
ready to film our every move. I had all the vans circle and block their view so they would not have a shot and the jerks moved further up the bridge to get a better look. Four of us held up body bags while four of us got the man in his bag without having it filmed for the world to see. I wanted to go up to them and ask if it would be okay if I came and filmed one of their loved ones being removed from their place of death and splash it all over the world. I have lost total respect for the mass mediia. A poor man being strapped to a pole and decomposing is not news. It is a tragic end to a life and must be respected. CNN bird-dogged us the rest of the afternoon. The Georgia State Patrol guys really wanted to peel off a couple rounds in their general direction - pretty bad considering CNN is headquartered in Atlanta. |