It’s so cold here in Chicago that the concrete has turned to steel.
“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at least genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. ”
-George Orwell, Down and Out In Paris and London…
Here’s a few hardy Chicagoans keeping warm by a heat vent – Alley Boys.
The guy on the left is Country. He seems to be a pretty easygoing guy. The gentleman on the right is Stutters. Stutters has been living on the streets on-and-off for about fourteen years. The guy in the middle I never met before, but he’s quite the magician.
There’s nothing going on here…
This is Teddy and Stutters staying out of the wind and snow.
Alley Boys Adventure Update 2/7/2013: Country wound up in jail for missing a court date. Stutters says he’ll be in for at least ninety days.
Here’s Country with Teddy the day before Country was arrested.
