Seen in St. Louis

If only we could get them to do our windows.

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One thing that is an adjustment for us moving to St. Louis is how many of the people you talk to on the street might be carrying a concealed firearm. This is heavy NRA country, and people imagine that carrying a gun will help prevent violence. We are constantly reminded of how many people might have guns on them by all these signs we see in doorways and windows: “No Firearms Allowed.” This is one of my favorites, on the window of one of our favorite watering holes in Laclede’s Landing, The Feisty Bulldog.

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Over the past week or so I’ve started hanging out at the Bread Co. downtown working on my masters thesis while D.J. stays at our place at the Syndicate and does his day job (mostly teleconferencing with other people from the think-tank he works at; sometimes it seems all they ever do is talk, lol). I am in love with the vibe of BreadCo as we call it (the free WiFi helps). While I’ve been to many Panera Bread locations from Buffalo to Tampa, here in St. Louis (where the chain originated and is still called St. Louis Bread Co.) it has a hometown, locally-owned-and-operated feel that makes their over 50 locations in the area real neighborhood hot spots.

Over the next few weeks, I will continue to spend some time here working and enjoying the atmosphere and hopefully I can get some good old-fashioned blogging in as well.

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Some of my favorite memories of New York City include the virtuosity of the street performers, especially late at night on the weekends in the subways. (Buffalo doesn’t really have a busking culture.) Some of the performers in New York City are far above the kitsch variety artists (frozen statues, moving mannequins, etc.) that we have witnessed around the Louvre in Paris or on the streets of London or Rome.

Well, St. Louis has its own virtuoso, replete with his own product-line. Meet Bill Richardson, who plays jazz on his saxophone on the streets of downtown many weekdays. Today, D.J. and I saw him around lunchtime outside of the downtown Kinkos. This picture was worth the tip we gave him.

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