old school photo time

Jason got in touch with me about an old photo of mine from something like 2006. There is an area in Birmingham called Gate City and it is not a place I'd like to find myself after dark, or really near dark. The area is known to me as a place that is not only a set a of Projects, but one with only one way in and out. Anyway...this was nearby said projects and, in fact, it is still around today and just as impacting. So since I dug out the negative and rescanned it I figured I'd post it too.

I still have no idea what the sign is in reference to. I will never ask.

It reads (for the sake of it being text on the page instead of just an image):

WE BEG YOU WITH TEARS IN OUR EYES TO PLEASE LEAVE US ALONE

Day 319

MISTER BRANDON. THIS IS FOR YOU! (mister brandon has a blog called "Sign here, here, and here" that is all about photos of signs. its pretty brilliant.

this is a handmade sign in the yard of my friend winslow's neighbor who apparently had some stuff stolen out of their [truly strange] yard. i will write it out, just in case. make sure to notice the creepy mannequins all over the place.

to view it larger, please see this URL:

www.theordinary.org/photos/tothebadseed_large.jpg

it reads:

To the BAD SEED
Who has Stolen from Me
With the Power of the Sun And
Aided by the mysteries of the MOON
And Through the Spirit of all Hallows eve
May you and the ground you walk on

BE CURSED

May your Dreams All Be nightmares

May a Plague of warts, Boils
and carbunkles cover you Body

WE NOT Say
LET it Be Done