We took Tiny to his cousin’s birthday party at one of those indoor playland arcade places – no, not the one that serves pizza and terror; where a kid can be a kid whose dreams are haunted by animatronic rats in cheerleader outfits – another place. I think it’s local. He had a blast. We had a blast.

I also had a lot of fun photographing the little shake-a-kid-for-a-minute rides. There were some particularly horrifying paint jobs. The pink elephant and the puple deer, which I’m sure in some mythology must carry souls to the land of the dead, were my particular favorites.