Hold your nose. Hold your breath.
1. EXETER, New Hampshire, 1986
Ah! How to beat a precociously sexualized child for the purest and most distilled of the hhebie jeebies? I'm a slow and uncertain photographer. The little girl struck the vamp pose a nanosecond before I pressed the shutter.
New Hampshire still gives me the willies -- reddest necks anywhere. They really, really dig NASCAR and campaigning there made Ed Muskie cry.
Enough said.
2. LOS ANGELES, 1994
These kids were the children of Russian mobsters, neighbors of my brother-in-law in a basically forfitified and unassailable compound across the street from the La Brea tar pits,
Creepy Kids, Bicoastal
right around the corner from the LA Museum of Art. There was either a Von's or a Ralph's where I could buy Rye whiskey at 7:00 AM.
The kids posed themselves. The three darker-toned brothers wer Chechens and the more colorful two so-called Muscovites. Their parents later told me they were from Siberia -- Kemorovo -- which Russians call "Little Chicago." The mobstera were nice after shaking me down. Gave me well over an ounce of fresh (not the canned stuff) Beluga.
The kids posed themselves. The three darker-toned brothers wer Chechens and the more colorful two so-called Muscovites. Their parents later told me they were from Siberia -- Kemorovo -- which Russians call "Little Chicago." The mobstera were nice after shaking me down. Gave me well over an ounce of fresh (not the canned stuff) Beluga.
These children oozed birth-right threat and they made me wish I hailed from Neptune. Chances are fair that they're still alive. Drive carefully.
3. THE SANTA MONICA PIER, 1996
"Hey man: Smoke some O?"
The offer was genuinely enticing, but I'd have to go to the water's edge, under the pier, to take delivery. I declined.
Then, as now, I figure them lef to right:
The chick was prepped to bite hard and holler RAPE; middle dude was the real muscle, unarmed; the guffawing Jim Varney/Ernest lookalike had a blade just as surely as normal babies aren't born with teeth.
My Wonderful World! And welcome to it.
GNWms
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Saturday, 15 November 2008
Whatever is wrong with you is the most comfortable suit of all, superseding seersucker and all the trimmings. I tip my hat to you, Mr. Weeyums: it is a better world with you in it than behind it.
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Hey, like in the Three Lies Game (and why don't you introduce it to the Lies Page here) all three of those pictures creep me the fuck out -- and there's not even a slight stretching of the truth involved. Those malevolent-looking, albeit sunwashed, Southern California kids with every expensive play-gadget on Earth, really _were_ children of the Russkya Mafia, living across the street from the Tar Pits -- (a seriously high-dollar address). The Night Fiends were pretty much homeless thugs working the shadows beneath the Santi Monica pier. And the two slightly normal-ish kids at the picnic table are my children. That's Laura's back turned toward the camera, eating ice cream. The Vamp and her younger dimbulb of a brother (joined the Marines because he could get a free snowboard as recruitment bait!) standing on the table are the children of friends. And that picture creeps me silly.
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