Kid, You're Hooked. Heavy as Lead.

Now, Cogs was a good straight boy to begin with but there was bad blood
In him; someway he got into the magic bullets that lead straight to the Devil's work, just like Motorola leads to Hasselblad.

I have for many years laboured under a number of misapprehensions around this fine Waits/Burroughs work. I now understand it to be a clear and unambiguous description of a young man's descent into the netherworld of Blipfoto.

LauraH gave me my first taste late last year. Within weeks I was blipping every day - the phone was always in my pocket, what harm could it do? By January I was looking at real cameras...but looking wasn’t enough, I wanted to hold, to feel. I wanted to be able to manipulate my focal length. I opened incognito windows checking out prices, spec, reviews. By March I was explaining to Mrs Cogs how €509 was actually a bargain.
               
I guess old Cogs didn't rightly know what he was getting himself into….