Monday. Class prep. Emails. Working on websites.
Saw this in a restaurant last night. We had Italian in the middle of nowhere. The restaurant was tacked onto this building that housed knick knacks and bric-a-brac. By the restroom, which had a sketch of Bobby Jones and another of Jesus, there was a display case full of coins and Zippos and knifes and confederate money and a head shot of George Wallace. It was almost everything you might need to try to understand the culture of a middle of nowhere place.
Above it all was this picture of Barney Fife. What the case couldn’t give you in playing armchair sociologist, this photograph might. It is clearly a promotional poster. VIP Printing and Graphics is a firm in Georgia. All of this explains itself.
The lady that ran the restaurant said she was from upstate New York. She’d been in the South for a few years. I wonder if she’s been able to make sense of it all.
I’m still trying to figure out why Bobby Jones’ backswing was hanging in the restroom.
