Terrible day today but enough of that. I walked most of the way home today, hell of hot but I like walking and seeing the city in ways i’ve never seen it before, and it’s also good for thinking and getting tired so you sleep better because i’ve been doing lots of the first and not so much of the second…thought about what to do with myself and where to go and what I want to be and the best color to paint my toenails and why things are the way they are and how many squirrels it takes to screw in a lightbulb and similar sorts of things. I’ll say now I had no time to eat a damn thing today so I was a bit lightheaded, though a lovely old woman who brings me her mail so i can translate it for her also kindly brought me a mango, I’m eating it later for dessert. She thinks I don’t eat enough, though I don’t know what could give her that idea…
On my journey I saw an old guy in a wheelchair shaded by three very large chinese flowered paper parasols in brilliant shades of yellow, blue and purple. I saw another old homeless man who using a sharpie had written on the back of his jean jacket in very large numbers 007. I walked up the hill on 6th to find downtown spread out before me, and palm trees silhouetted against the blue mirrored glass of skyscrapers. I saw heat rising from the pavement in waves. I saw a man with a sign that said Arab arab = 9/11 and that made me incredibly sad. I saw a tiny little traveling carnival called the Silver Streak with a carousel and a pirate funhouse and a giant bumpy slide…
The good news is that Jesus Christ is coming to Echo Park in a little less than a year. Hooray! About damn time too, he has left us on our own for far too long and christians have become just about unbearable. I hope mohammed and yahweh join him, and whoever the mormons and jehovah’s witnesses believe in comes along as well, and buddha could add a sense of humour to the party. I found these notices wheatpasted along sunset…took a picture but am missing upload capabilities so here are some excerpts, they’re brilliant!
“This is all the words for the return of second time to the world to fix the word. Everyone of Los Angeles is giving God the greenlight to let Jesus Christ to Echo Park lake on 7-7-2007 at 8:00 pm, with a rainbow & 1,000 doves representing angels of god and angels of los angeles to be at echo park.
word-lotus-us-for jesus-ol>Olga prophet and St for christ. he’s going to stop everyone from 40 and up so we can live to see 3007…”
and so on and so on, he’ll also be giving away green cards and clothes, and “heeling” people, not sure what that is, sounds a bit violent actually, but you have to be in echo park on 07-07-07 (ahh, numerology, my favorite exact science) to get them. Think I might go, though absolutely sure that I won’t be living here anymore. Think you can make something happen if you post enough hand written notices along sunset blvd?