The Vudu Shop was still on my mind. I didn't really believe in Vudu, but I had never seen a place like it. I felt it was calling to me, working its magic, perhaps. I felt the shop was both new and old, open and closed, charming and unsettling. I smiled at my Chicken Man Vudu I picked up the other day. I'd like to tell a story about the world that he must live in. How did he get by? What was his family like? Before I knew it, I was inside the shop and arranging new dolls to bring home.
Vudu #2953 fell in love with Chicken Man many years ago. Her name was Billie, and they met in a small southern town not too far from here. She was always attracted to his work ethic, watching him help his mama farm in the fields. He had always blushed to listen to Billie sing her heart out during services every weekend.
They were young when they married, and they knew what they wanted. A wholesome family and to be part of a community. Billie was named after Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday was an American Jazz and Swing singer. If you have never heard her voice, you should play this album as you read:
Billie Holiday. (This link plays "Strange Fruit") While the Strange Fruit song is tragic, Billie's voice soulfully carries it. A critical commentary on racism in America at the turn of the century, racism America is still trying to conquer.
Billie Baguette sings all of Holidays' songs as she preps the baking for the day. Her voice floating out the back window of the Baguette shop. Her voice in the early morning is so mellow and rich and
her voice at bedtime helped her children sleep soundly. Yeah.
Chicken Man & Billie have two kids.
She is into Cardano and is looking forward to a metaverse gaming platform that will transport her to a place where she can feel safe and free to be herself.
Her generation is tired of gender labels, identity politics; she has never understood why you have to work until you are old in hopes that you can enjoy some of your life doing what you like.
You'll notice that Vicky has no voodoo pins in her; part of that is because she's young. Her mouth is stitched shut because she feels she cannot speak her truth.
She thinks a lot about doing what she likes and making money, but she has been told that's not possible. She wants to learn her way around the NFT space, hoping to find another path than her parents. She is not ashamed of her parents; she just wants to feel free, not tied down to the schedule she has seen them follow every day of her life. Her dad wants her to come work at the baguette shop.
Vicki's younger brother wears his orange cuffs but has the rocky smile of a tumbling risk-taking kid. He doesn't own his own controller yet, but he plans to be a big gamer.
Charlie has no voodoo pins in him either as he is so young.
Voodoo pins can show up in younger Vudu if they have pain in their hearts or bones or heads or if they've upset people, but Charlie is still an average boy and hasn't gotten into too much trouble.
His inherent messaging deals more with his smile, cool shades, and quad cuffs. He still needs the security of a 4 bracing safety net, but he's not risk-averse. He's ready to go! You'll notice he's made of stitched leather. He's probably been stitched together quite a few times, but he's 100% a good boy
As I mentioned earlier, Billy and the Chicken Man can't do it alone. Vicky and Charlie are not quite interested in the baguette business, so Chicken Man has called in his sister Gloria Baguette to come and help.
Loves to sing with her sister-in-law Billie in the morning, adding the harmonies that make them brilliant together.
Gloria herself is an artist, as indicated by the beret. She usually paints and does urban art on the concrete walls between houses, which line the back alleys where the garbage trucks go.
The orange cuffs automatically place her in the Baguette family tree, but you'll notice even though she's an older voodoo, she still has no pins. Her shades keep the sun out of her eyes; she prefers to be more incognito in public.
Her vibrant fuchsia skin means she is happy. Take a closer look at her dress. Do you see the face? That's one of her favorite art pieces, and one of her friends made it into a fabric for her.
What does it mean to be free, as Vicki says?
Is it to believe in your dreams and take those risks like Charlie?
Is it to face the world with your colors, like Gloria?
I like to think about what Billy and Gloria sound like together in the mornings, their lilting voices carrying over the fields at dawn and pulling up the sun.
It seems when you're an artist, and you have children, some of that magic pours into them as well.
Gloria has a son, his name is Matt, and we call him Matt Baguette He's #754
Matt is blue, which indicates an underlying sadness. He wears the skelly shirt as he believes in stripping down all the walls and focusing on the structure of what is underneath, or maybe he is a little nihilistic. While he is a baguette, you'll notice he has a pin instead of those orange cuffs.
He doesn't really feel like part of a family, which hurts. He knows his family loves him. They say they do. It's the feeling part Matt is missing. His blueness of depression and anxieties is offset by the strawberry cap.
The strawberry cap is the façade on the outside that shows you're happy and sweet and fruity and fun, and he has a heart-eye which means he's looking for love. He's looking for it all around him.
He has a green pin. Usually, green means a place that needs healing. For Matt, that pin is a little close to the groin, and so I would say he probably needs healing dealing with his sexuality.
Matt is a sweetheart.
He wears the Skelly shirt also as a representation of his fledgling band. He is forming a family of his musician friends. The Skelly band wants to live past their mortal lifetime, and music comes from deep in their bones. As for the pin in his right shoulder, maybe we'll be able to understand what that's about later in these stories.
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