ZEKE'S PERSONAL HOBBIT HOLE
I have lived here since January 1, 1983 (gaaaah!!): a single room
overlooking the heart of The Castro. These photos are arranged from
left-to-right (or clockwise)...starting with the entry door which
faces north. Both windows face south. My dwelling is also a work in
progress: a living diorama that you may actually enter and stroll
around. (Just as I assigned myself a challenge to make a work of art
out of my website, I did likewise for my room.)
If only I had an artist's grant to preserve my hobbit hole by
filling it up with clear liquid lucite. Once the lucite hardened, the
wall facing the street would be knocked out, so that tourists could
gaze upon my abode, and see "where it all started". ("All of
what started?" you might ask. "The Global Hellenic
Emancipation," I'd reply.)
Please consider my humble
abode as a textbook example of third world living conditions
right here in the USofA. Something which our society still denies.
But you don't have to be dirt poor to be subjected to
substandard conditions...you just have to be on a low income, living
in an expensive city...with corrupt property owners and building
inspectors (like every Amerikan city, town, burg and whistle-
stop).
Note: These photos were all taken in July of
2000. But the descriptions of them were written later: May 3, 2004,
to be precise.