Stu Jenks: Fezziwig Photography, Music, and Writing

"Thank You, North Carolina"

"Thank You, North Carolina"

[Thank you, to Mike C., and to all the good folk in the Tarheel State, who gave Senator Barack Obama his impressive victory tonight, in the North Carolina Presidential Primary. Thank You to the state, where I kissed my first girl, saw my first Monet in person at the North Carolina Museum of Art, heard my first live concert (namely the Low Spark tour by Traffic), graduated barely with a fine art degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The state where I loved watching the Tarheels play basketball on the Pilot Life Broadcasting Network (both as a confused child and as a stoned college kid), where I first fell in love with her, and then with another her and then another her. Thank you, North Carolina. Thank you.

Right now, it's 56% to 42%, with 62% of the votes in. North Carolina, you are making me cry tonight. Crying tears of joy. And Mike? Get well soon.]

"Pert, The Pointer" (c) 2008

"Pert, the Pointer" (c) 2008 LanChien Tallent

[John Tallent was one of the best bakers in Chapel Hill in the 1970's. He now lives in Chatham County, North Carolina. This is his prize pointer, Pert. She is four years old. John says that since bird dogs are better at finding birds than we are, AND that they know it, that this gives them a certain dignity. Pert has this in spades. And since I've just returned of late, from a visit to my ancestral South, it seems right to put a very good bird dog on my blog. The photo was taken by John's wife, LanChien. Good dog.]