AM I
I gonna do over in this place? Rewinding his
memory, he reruns his instructions, searching
for the reason of this big trip.
"O.k. kid, here's your plane ticket. Go to
Europe, shoot it, see it, live it, get to know it."
the Editor had said, pointing a big forefinger,
"and I don't want to see your ugly ass around
here until you come back with a story. Hear
what I'm saying kid? Know where I'm coming
from, kid? Good! Now get your ugly image out
of my face before you make me sick and I
vomit all over my desk. Oh, here's a buck, go
run yourself through the car-wash before you
get on the plane. Ha-ha-ha: Leave, get outta
my office, now!"
DOING
ERE?
PHIL BORGOYNE- Crystal Palace:
SOLDIERS WITH FUNNY HATS- Buckingham Palace
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BY YOREL LLON
PHOTOS BY M. FO
ALL DIRECTIONS LOST, MORTAL SIN IN
THE AVENUE
"What am I doing?!", Leroy shouts loudly
inside himself. Sitting there, looking about he
comes to the startling realization that he's
aboard a very large Pan Am jet, England
bound. He has thoughts to himself, his mind is
tired from stressing on worry, recalling the
dangerously recent bouts, many U.S., citizens
abroad have experiences with terrorists (..
the TWA incident in Bierut and the bomb in the
Frankfurt airport) including the many non-ter-
rorist incidents around Europe (i.e. the
mysterious ill-fated JAL plane crash into the
ocean).
Yes, sitting there, he sat. Looking out the
window, across the Antarctic polar ice cap
sunrise-scape he ponders, what in the hell am
A
FLORIAN- Germany
30D- West Bank, London
KEVIN- Cermany
BREATHE TWO-THREE-FOUR
Once past customs, a maze of channels and
hallways meant to confuse ignorant weary
travellers who've been awake for too many
hours on flights from all over the world, Leroy
is met by London skater Steve Douglas. Leroy
is then introduced to the London undergound
railway system, a thing that he would eventu
ally come to dislike, dearly. With close to ninety
pounds of baggage hanging off of his person,
Leroy is not impressed with the need to change
trains so many times, 'up endless stairs' here,
down two escalators' there or 'change trains in
a hurry or you're dead meat' in most places.
After a while the American visitor and
London local find themselves in front of your
basic tourist shopping trap, Kensington Market
with your basic punk wannabee, everything
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