Photos Beyond the Wall

“Are you tired of seeing you and your family in dozens of photos taken in the Visiting Room over the years…all with the same old boring Visiting Room backdrops? Photos Beyond The Wall now offers what you’ve been waiting for. We take you out of the visiting room and place you “inside” the romantic or exotic location of your choice!”

I caught just a brief mention of this on NPR’s Morning Edition. Kind of a cool idea. I mean, you don’t want to put a photo of mom or dad “gripping the bars,” on your desk, so the folks at Beyond the Wall will alter that reality for you. Some of these are more distrubing than others.

Back stage with the Rolling Stones

XM Ben attended the Rolling Stones concert Monday night (DC) and managed to get backstage where he had his photo taken spooning Ron Wood. I think that qualifies as a Brush with Near Greatness.

It flashed me back to 1964 (my sophomore year in high school) when the Rolling Stones were all over the radio. We had never heard anything remotely like them. How can they possibly be touring 40 years later?

PS: That’s been peeping out from behind Ron Wood

Delta Fair and Livestock Show

They dropped the livestock reference many years ago after a fire broke out and cooked up a lot of beef and pork. But “the fair” is a Kennett tradition and OMIK (Our Man in Kennett), Charles Jolliff, shares his excellent flickr set. These bring back memories of Minnie the Mermaid and riding the Scrambler with Melanie Price, high school hot in her Girl Scout uniform, her chest encrusted with merit badges. Sigh. Where was I? Oh yes, Charles’ photos.