Toni Le Busque's stories.

This episode of This American Life is one of my favourites so far.

I have always wanted to talk like a Southerner.
Now, after having heard this, I feel a bit ashamed of myself because even though I have been to The South, I still imagine all Southerners sounding like Scarlett O’Hara or Belle Wattling from Gone With the Wind.
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The above is a drawing of the Mercer/Williams house that I did while I was in Savannah, Georgia.
I had read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and gone on a tour of the house, seeing the very spot the shooting took place.
(Read the book. DO NOT see the film. It’s woeful)

The drawing is soft pastel on A4 black paper and hangs in the downstairs toilet of my home.

Below is a story I wrote of what occurred while I was doing the drawing-

While I was drawing this a man came up and started talking to me and, after some small talk, got on to the subject of God.
He was a big fan of God and he talked to me for quite a while on the topic until he he told me he too was an artist and had drawn a comic book, which he then took out of his backpack and showed me.
I told him it looked very good and good luck with it.
Then he told me that he didn’t have a job, that he lived on the street and did odd jobs for people.
I felt like asking him why, if God was so amazing, he didn’t get him a job and his own house.
But I didn’t.