Hat tip Pam

Ok kids, this photo recalls an erstwhile moderately active wall at the corner of Santa Monica and Virgil circa 2004. The corner here used to be home to the famed Jayburger shack. Jay’s Jayburgers was the place to end your night of revelry in Silver Lake, and many a drunken grizzled hipster ended up here scarfing down an egg-topped cholesterol timebomb come 2am. It’s true. The next time you go out to a bar, look for the oldest alcoholic in the place and ask him about Jayburger, but back to topic. Whenever he wasn’t throwing redbull-and-vodka sponsored DJ parties and art openings in his space next to the Wiltern, Shepard stayed hard at work ’round town. Here we see Angela Davis next to Andre. I also spy the remaining tops of a few Robbie Conal anti-Iraq War posters. The wall itself is not really visible at all now, due to the construction of an incredibly ugly building some years back (helpful Google street view reference map below). Whee!, memory.
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Thanksgiving Weekend
November 2009

I’d been really depressed, which was uncharacteristic. The problem had stemmed from a day job that was helping me to pay off some 14 months of domestic and international travel and, to be completely honest, a whole hell of a lot of dicking off. When it finally came time to pay the piper, I found myself with three viable job offers on the table – in a recession, no less, after having dicked off for a solid 14 months as previously mentioned. I share this not with the intention of boasting, mind you, but to relay the absolute fact that of those offers, I chose the wrong job and, as a result, I quickly became miserable. And for the first time in nearly a decade, I acknowledged that I was depressed. Months passed. Thanksgiving arrived. I discovered that while I had been traveling, a good friend had died. I’d left her voicemails after the fact, knowing nothing about her demise at the time. Life can be so unfair. But that Thanksgiving morning, Robin and I had volunteered at a food bank and then retired to various parties and friend’s feasts to drink our separate days away, and the morning of volunteering had lifted my spirits not inconsiderably. Thanksgiving passed.

I had fixed myself with a blind date to take place early the following Sunday, with a girl from some online dating site or another. I’m not exactly the coffee shop type when it comes to blind dates. That’s too damn easy, for starters, and furthermore, it can quickly make for a bad initial experience: boring conversations, the always-perked ears of curious patrons, unnatural steam blasts from the espresso machine, smooth jazz and coffee jitters. I had convinced this particular girl that we needed to experience the sun rising in Los Angeles, and among numerous idyllic geographic postulations within the county, offered the idea of the Korean Friendship Bell bluff in San Pedro as a viable location, speculating that due to the direction and location of the peninsula, we stood a passable chance of a sunrise over water.

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West Los Angeles 25 May 2011 118pm

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This Has Been A Timely Pico Boulevard Mural Update
(Medusa LA Frontage, 5/11/2011; Pico/Bundy general area)

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This Has Been A Photograph of a Santa Monica Tree Covered in Cacti

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This has been Holy Fucking Shit: That’s a Lot of Staples.
Sunset Blvd circa ’06

It begins…

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