BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Hoopland Part 1

They are the only things that you will find in more bountiful numbers than convenience stores around the country. These basketball courts – makeshift haphazards to specimens of fine engineering -- they mean many different things to many people. But bound by a common love; a rapturous passion, what it does very well is give rise to dreams. That brief moment when man dares to take flight confirms it.

These are stories of flights of fancy. A simple picture essay of playgrounds throughout the country. Watch out for the other parts. (photos taken from GK Molave, Payatas, QC)


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