for closed #1, 2 & 3

[Jessica Fenlon]

Shot in Bloomfield a block or two from the Crazy Mocha on Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh.

An odd synchronicity about this photograph : on the TV series "Law & Order" and its spinoffs, the criminal is always hiding in "Room 213" in the hotel/motel.

There is something oddly criminal, or connected to the criminal, about the fallout of the financial misbehaviors of those rotten banks. It makes it easier to look away from the actual loss being suffered by people if one chooses to argue over the semantics of "how this is going to be solved" (or not). That whole set of arguments becomes a rabbit trail to a garbage dump of language and legality that stops us from paying attention to the length of lines at soup kitchens, the risks of personal losses, the threat to our own financial lives.