Kevin's Watch

well, i can tell you where i was that weekend.

my beloved grandmother, Lucy Mae, was ill. she'd been in the hospital
twice in the 3 months prior to april and everyone was worried she was
on her way to "the other shore" and ger said to me "you'd better go now."
and my dad said to me he thought she was waiting for me to come home and see her. so i went.

i went to see her at the skilled care facility where she'd been placed after coming out of the hospital. that was on the saturday.
we talked for a long time. she said she wasn't long for the world and she'd be glad to go. she was tired. and i said i was pretty sure they were gonna have a job for her up in heaven. (she hadn't been the same since she'd been forced to retire 10 year prior) and we sang some of her favorite hymns together. and we laughed and talked a long time and i told her that she was the person in my life who been the most constant support and source of love. i told her all the things she meant to me in my life. i wanted her to know how much she meant to me and how much i loved and admired her.
it was a good moment for both of us i think.
the following day was sunday and i don't remember what i did or where i went but ger called me from SF that evening to tell me about the riots and that there were police on the street talking on bullhorns in our neighborhood. he was afraid there were going to be riots here. there were people gathering in the civic center area, just 4 blocks from our house. there were protests going on. it's san francisco, after all.

i stayed in kentucky a few more days. i didn't see my grandmother again and i went home on the wednesday.

she died three weeks later in may of '92.

thats what i remember.

I was playing Super Nintendo and being seven years old. Silly riots.

Funny, I was playing Super Nintendo and being 14. I distinctly remember seeing it on the news over at my friend Stacy's house (and pretty much all we did at Stacy's house was play Nintendo). I was amazed that there were riots in "Reno fucking Nevada," even if they were pretty small scale - some demonstration at a church, IIRC.

So yeah, put me in the "sitting at home watching your TV" crowd.

Syl wrote:Funny, I was playing Super Nintendo and being 14. I distinctly remember seeing it on the news over at my friend Stacy's house (and pretty much all we did at Stacy's house was play Nintendo). I was amazed that there were riots in "Reno fucking Nevada," even if they were pretty small scale - some demonstration at a church, IIRC.

So yeah, put me in the "sitting at home watching your TV" crowd.

I don't think I heard about it, really, until In Living Color did a skit about Reginald Denny, and even then I had hardly little idea what the deal was.

Sorry for grave digging - but I was 22 and alos playing Nintendo (probably Zelda 3). I remember seeing it on the news ands I certainly remember Ice-T infamous Bodycount album "Copkiller" ("F*** the police for Rodney King" - it all sounds so immature now.)

I remember watching the news at my friends house; my wife and I were in his band and were supposed to be practicing, but that kind of took precedence that day.