Rain...

...washes away the dirt and grime. Apparently so, because there has been a startling lack of nefarious traffic in the area recently. I would like to believe that the awareness and/or attention garnered from this blog is the cause of it, but we'll wait for a few clear days before we claim any headway won.

For those of you who are bitching and moaning that I am "picking" on people or am promoting gentrification, let me clarify myself. Come around the neighborhood any cold and/or rainy evening and you will see these kids sleeping under the awning at the church. They bother no one, they pick up after themselves, they stay quiet. Pretty much they sleep, then get up in the morning and go on about their business. Most of the homeless in the area are, in fact, pretty cool people if you take a moment out of your day to chat them up.

Anyway, thanks again to the emails and comments. Keep them coming 'k?

Oh, and a little note to the whiny little eunuch that obsessively keeps trying to post in the comments: I (for the most part) publish every single comment that comes in. Comments that are just an immature little boy using his potty-mouth because the anonymity afforded him by the internet makes him brave are summarily dismissed. Come up with an intelligent post (or, for you, a simple coherent sentence), and you will be greenlit.