Silver Lake

07/14/2008

Naked Transportation, a Downtown and Hollywood Journey...Being Supportive

Outside your car and on your feet you get to experience the glamorous bottom floor of Los Angeles. And it has quite a bit of square footage.

I took the 770 Express from 5th and Olive to Cesar E Chavez and Rowan to support Self Help Graphics in their fight to not die from a Catholic Church assisted gentrified death. I guess Roger Mahony and company are tired of just fucking little boys.

I saw Gloria Molina who I feel is amazingly brilliant.

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Do I agree with her completely politically, not exactly but I have to honor her bad assedness.

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11/03/2007

Lost pet collection...

. . . but it the day after the Day of The Dead, so what do you expect?

To honour the lost of Los Feliz, Silver lake and the surrounding area, I had the Busbenchers surrender their favourite "Lost. . . " flyers lest they were to have spent today posting their own "Lost: left limb and two toes" flyers. (There is nothing like a bottle of scotch in one hand and a machete in the other, to illustrate the advantage of two well-connected hands!)

Have a gander at our best bits of the collection collected over the last 15 months.

The well-known, first in a series of three:

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One wonders about this bird. . .

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. . . and why there is no photo for the cat, the flyer of which were found on the other side of the post:

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There is the muppet-dog whose mug is done via a colour inkjet even as his naughty bits are no longer so colourful:

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Only a Cat lover could love this bastard:

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What in any hell could be in this case, that curries so much cause for alarm? (Seeing as it is eLAy, perhaps it is the soul of some lost Tarrantino fan whose own neck bears a strange Band-Aid?)

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And just in case one is looking to be economical in the pursuit of photography work, there is this poor lost pup whose truancy might well pave they way for a new puppy:

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But back to the drawing board. We are sure this is a schoolteacher, owing to the bottom right-hand date:

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There is that which will be sent up the river:

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and the same possible loss, albeit in spanish:

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The simply lost:

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and the largest of all (with a scale provided by my own bigfoot big-assed foot, which means the poster is nearly three feet in height), is this odd bit, which was no doubt done by a teacher: it were mounted on Foamcore, made ready by a strap from a biycllce helmet, and found in droves throughout the area immediately south of Los Feliz between Vermont and Hillhurst:

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