Miss Shirley Sees Things

January 24th, 2012:

In which the Ripley’s dinosaur must be getting retrofitted, or something.

I can’t believe how hard it is for me to take pictures in that neighborhood. There’s this shame I feel, like I need a disclaimer: this person is not a tourist, this person is a native, this person lived here when this stretch was still dirty, pre-mall, kindly do not associate this person with any tourist tendencies, just let this person catch her bus without scoffing at her for photographing this flashy, touristy place, please, oh my god, I’m native, I swear.