Help yourself to a big, heaping plate of News You Couldn’t Possibly Use.
Since I was unable to spend the morning hours updating Wiki pages, I took in an extra-alarm fire on the 40-something hundred block of W. Who Cares Ave. In this case, they say a woman who was squatting in an abandoned 3-story house had to jump from the top to escape a blaze that not only destroyed the building, but those on either side of it. After a walk-around to snap whatever there was to snap, I ran into my news-photographer buddy in the back alley. “Watch your step!”, he says. With used needles everywhere, it was like spotting a rattlesnake. I froze, wondering aloud: ‘what the hell are we doing here?’ Nobody needed to say: ‘taking pictures you won’t sell of a burning, abandoned drug house that nobody cares about.’ It just was.
