04.02.12
Take some more pictures of blight, DD
A perfect visual metaphor for our listless country: A broken piece of circuit board from a worthless bit of consumer electronics, made in China for Sony, amid leaves and litter on a concrete bridge over the pitiless super-highway bisecting Pasadena. Unless someone picks it up or strong wind blows it away, it could be there for the next ninety years, immutable.
When things have turned so rancid the regular news on food is how it is found to be chock full of antibiotics and stuff to sterilize it, “Our chickens don’t do drugs” on a dingy van with the hubcaps fallen off becomes a winning sales slogan.
On the same baking el Molino Street bridge with the broken circuit board, an enterprising band with no audience has put a sticker on a traffic light box. That’s probably cause for a $500 fine and/or five days in jail.
The sign conceals a small horrid-looking park where I’ve never seen anyone, put in place of a house that was abandoned ca. 2007-2008. Depreciative capital in action. No one will build anything worth seeing or using here in the rest of my lifetime.
I’ve never seen a blessed person in the place.
The future’s so bright, ya gotta wear shades. Black plastic made-in-China gadget made this song, written by Link Wray. DD’s coffee table creche kitsch.
Insults from the Bard. The only appropriate response, don’t you think?
Mark Smollin said,
April 3, 2012 at 12:11 am
I knew you were up to something.
George Smith said,
April 3, 2012 at 6:47 am
Actually I’m trying to figure out how I can best use it for a quick video.