As if Santa Fe isn't sweet enough! I know SF isn't the only place that hangs shoes from telephone wires, and I know there are all kinds of legends as to why it happens (gang signs, WWII traditions, and SW country lingo to name a few), but for us to see them was completely magical. It's more fun to consider them in context of Tim Burton's Big Fish (the town whose citizens try to steal your shoes so you can never leave), and that was how we understood them. A few months later--shortly after having moved to Albuqerque, I saw this hanging from a telephone pole.
Fo sho. I saw it hanging in front of the Motor Vehicles Department.
It looked very deliberate and yet accidental. I can't make up my mind. Collaborative speculations from my 2 readers would be welcome.
And in the meantime, I will return to the thesis. So close and yet so far.
10 comments:
what is that thing?
Can anyone guess where the picture was taken?
I believe it's a space suit.
Mrs. J... I like that...
Here's what I think:
A hitchhiking ragdoll, who just couldn't take it anymore...
It looks... painful...
You shouldn't post stuff like that.
Kelly, I wish I knew. Sometimes I'm tempted to go see if it's still there.
Oliver, I don't think I could find the location if I tried. I think I was caught in a time-space-continuem nexus bordering on a tesseract. If it is a spacesuit I think we can all confirm that it is not a human one.
Anonymous, your guess is totally the most poetic.
Keep tryin' ya'll.
i remember those shoes. Perhaps that thing is some type of vodoo doll thrown there by angry indians. i love you dear sister. i miss you.
Whoa, Boo, I believe you mean to say Native Americans. Let's not get my blog on the mean blogs list the first week of its little life.
But Voodoo is a possibility. In fact, I have some pictures of Haitian Voodoo too (taken from my days maintaining the nature trail at the Adventure Learning Centre in Nassau, Bahamas). I should post them for examination.
As always, elf, you have inspired another post. Pure genius you are.
It's most likely an alien. And, by virtue of that fact, I would say that the picture was taken in Roswell (to answer OJ's question). And I think the alien twisted himself into a giant red AIDS ribbon that has now been weathered into...into a weathered alien AIDS ribbon.
Summ, I am missing you so much over here!!! Arrrgghh. Best friend I ever had. No doubt the two of us could do even better- something from the peak of St. Peter's perhaps? (Irrev). Ummm... are they ski pants?
Ps. I miss you.
Katie: I should have known that was you!
Yo mama: I like the way you extended the hypothesis
Huck: I wish I was there too complaining about Bach and sleeping through all the important stuff.
"Bach, what were you thinking?"
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