Slynky: When I got my first video camera, I wanted to do
something different with it. Most people tape their kid's
birthday parties, or their trips to Disney Land. I wanted
to do something more gripping, interesting, exciting. So
I took it into the worst, most dangerous part of New Haven.
A garbage strewn street called Howard Ave., in the Hill
section. This was the epicenter of the race riots of the
sixties, mentioned in that old Doors tune which goes "Blood
in the streets of the town of New Haven", etc. It's
currently a neighborhood infested with drug gangs. I'm
genuinely lucky that I didn't get shot. I had one guy yell
at me to "Shut that fucking camera off!!"

So anyway, a dark alley with some crackheads in it is no big
deal. Just snap your flash in their faces and they'll be
blinded for half an hour, at least! :-)

Oh, and "lady"?? What makes you think I'm a woman? I don't
presume that YOU'RE a woman just because you look good in
black fishnets, now do I? :-)