Another day, another walk in Hollywood, and a day of faces, some
looking down, some looking up from the sidewalk. Some (as it were human) some less so.
A minimalist Lou Reed from his Transformer era. I mean, I’m pretty sure it’s Lou Reed, but it
does look a bit like Michael Bolton:
A comparatively detailed face signed by Klassy:
And then what at first I thought was best of all, a stencil of our soon
to be Fearless Leader:
“Pendejo,” as I understand it, means a fool or an idiot, though it also
(and simultaneously) means a single pubic hair.
Good knockabout, activist stuff you might think, but it turns out that “Ilegal
Mescal” is just a brand of liquor which rather spoils the “guerilla” effect.
And meanwhile high above it all on Hollywood Boulevard, in Thai Town, not
so much looking down as looking beyond, four golden statues of Apsoni, a mythical half-woman, half-lion, which appear thoroughly
unimpressed by what’s going on below. We’re
all in the gutter, right?