these were the theme of my friday night shift...i got in - nothing on the board, so i figured i'd just go feature hunt or something - perhaps go back also to the family i shot a couple weeks ago with all the grandkids - then one of the copy editors came over to relay a call to our head editor about a car sticking out of a dumpster - a local dealer's promo for Monday's launch of the "cash for clunkers" program - it's crazy what a deal people can get, if they can do it before the well runs dry - not sure where all of this money is coming from, nor how Chrysler can possibly afford to match the highest offer from a competitor - essentially doubling the trade-in value they'll give on a new car - just wish i could come up with all that extra money in a cash-strapped world!!!
anyway, on my way back, i saw these guys standing on the corner with signs for a revival at the Full Gospel Church - didn't have a date or time, so i assumed it was tonight....came back to the office to get the clunker pic in, then i looked up the church in the phone book - the only listing was for a small church on the eastside, and i remember seeing tent revivals in a lot in that vicinity in years past, so i headed that way - turns out that's just the Gospel church, not the FULL Gospel Church - but, i knew i'd seen this church before, and i thought it was somewhere south of town, so i went south on Telegraph- but the church i had in mind there was an evangelical one, so i cut farther down and over to S. Dixie, but that was a Baptist church, so i stopped home, googled the place and found it - it was just farther east on the road i'd cut down between the 2 main arteries...so, back i went, and there was nothin there! BOO! what a waste of time, light and gas...and that, my friends, is what constitutes a "wild Gospel (church) chase!"
....now, onto the third part of the equation....
so, back towards town i went, really NOT wanting to go make something of people/kids hanging out in their front yards AGAIN - i mean really, between that and the moonwalks, i feel like i'm living in the movie "Groundhog Day!!"
i remembered that there was "Jazz on the Square" tonight - runs a few Friday's as a prevue to the big jazz festival in a few weeks....spotted this couple and hung out with them for a bit - they were cute - nothing earth-shattering obviously, but still, at least a departure from the norm of my feature hunts of late...and i got to listen to music while doing it - not so bad!
anyway, on my way back, i saw these guys standing on the corner with signs for a revival at the Full Gospel Church - didn't have a date or time, so i assumed it was tonight....came back to the office to get the clunker pic in, then i looked up the church in the phone book - the only listing was for a small church on the eastside, and i remember seeing tent revivals in a lot in that vicinity in years past, so i headed that way - turns out that's just the Gospel church, not the FULL Gospel Church - but, i knew i'd seen this church before, and i thought it was somewhere south of town, so i went south on Telegraph- but the church i had in mind there was an evangelical one, so i cut farther down and over to S. Dixie, but that was a Baptist church, so i stopped home, googled the place and found it - it was just farther east on the road i'd cut down between the 2 main arteries...so, back i went, and there was nothin there! BOO! what a waste of time, light and gas...and that, my friends, is what constitutes a "wild Gospel (church) chase!"
....now, onto the third part of the equation....
so, back towards town i went, really NOT wanting to go make something of people/kids hanging out in their front yards AGAIN - i mean really, between that and the moonwalks, i feel like i'm living in the movie "Groundhog Day!!"
i remembered that there was "Jazz on the Square" tonight - runs a few Friday's as a prevue to the big jazz festival in a few weeks....spotted this couple and hung out with them for a bit - they were cute - nothing earth-shattering obviously, but still, at least a departure from the norm of my feature hunts of late...and i got to listen to music while doing it - not so bad!
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