Hi e2! I'm not sure how I first came across this site, it's been sitting in my bookmarks bar for a year or two and, in an attempt to get off of other social media platforms, I've decided to dig in. Hell, this website is only a few years younger than me so I'm excited to see what I can find and read.
I'm still a little bit unsure about how to use e2, but I'll learn.

We aren't there yet.  This is her talking, and she means our car,  headed west on 10 into Houston:

a maze of steep exit ramps and billboards:  Hot barbecue- cold beer!

We have to go North some,  then we get off on a small highway  then we are there, almost 

Her instructions were like the rest of her language, non-linear and flavored with drawl  - so "we get off"  sounds like  "we'll git awf"

"I'm only a freak by the standards I reject."
--a hustler

"It's not so much I'm scared of the police. I'm scared of the junkies."
--A dealer

"What is that? Fuckin' Spider-man? I'm talkin' serious. Life. It's not all shit and dope. People do things."
--a junkie

By the early 1970s, it…