AIG man gets all the eggs (click to enlarge)
(h/t Wooster Collective)
EASTER AIG HUNT from ABOVE on Vimeo.
Happy Easter, Passover and Springtime to all the LA Eastside readers!
Happy Easter, AIG Style!
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Puppets & Paralegal
La Crisis. Hitting hard but inspiring creativity, and some interesting career mixing. For example:
Majestic Vic at myspace. Magic shows – Face Painting – Balloon Animals – Puppets – Games
& Paralegal Services.
Best of luck to you Majestic Vic.
Highland Park farmers market
So I run into Victoria K. at the library during my super, duper, amazing spring break and we decide to kick it old school at a coffee house in Highland Park. We make pit stops at our pads and make our way over there. I see the farmers market and I tell V to go with me and check it out. These are the pictures that came about from that frolic. I ended up running into artist Sonia Romero and her cohort Tina Rodas, who decided to post up at the market that day to promote this weekends show at Avenue 50. Needless to say it was a great time all around and it was really close to with the metro stop being right in front of it. The market is held every Tuesday from 3 to 8 p.m.
~ This post was made possible by the El Random Hero scholarship fund ~
Cute? A story of MY fire escape.
Baby Rat w/feathers
I went by my girlfriend Noe’s place in Boyle Heights. It used to be my place, but I decided to move downtown.
My girlfriend loves everything and everybody. When I went to her place she was like, “Browne I have something to show you.â€
So she takes me to the fire escape and shows me a baby rat. With feathers. I think some people call them pigeons.
“Isn’t it cute?†Noe.
I just sort of stare, she continues, “The mama was there and then there was an egg, so I couldn’t kick it out. It’s nature. It’s beautiful.â€
An egg is not a bird, apparently she hasn’t been reading her pro-choice literature.
That nest and egg would have been on the sidewalk on the pavement if I still lived there. A sort of lesson to all of the other pigeons to stay off MY fire escape, but the universe works in mysterious ways and Noe lives there not Browne, so a lucky break for the pigeons of Boyle Heights.
Browne Molyneux
Almost Over
It’s almost Easter (it’s some religious holiday where I think some vato rises from the dead?) and there are two fun things you are likely not to do after this Sunday. So this is a heads up; indulge while you can!
First up: the smushing of the hollow chocolate bunnies. Oh, don’t act like you don’t, everyone does it. Maybe it’s revenge for having the reality of the world come crashing down at a young age, realizing that it’s all about illusions and hollowness. Or maybe I’m just a jerk. But how can one not resist exposing a lie? Click ahead for the truth!
Coachella. Layaway. YES YOU CAN!
I’m listening to cheesy 80s music streaming via yahoo and I hear this commercial for Coachella and not that I’m a big Coachella person or get in a car and go to the desert to listen to crappy music kind of person, even in my 20s that was not me. I have always been a read a book, drink a bottle of vodka, go to sleep, wake up at 9pm and go to a dive bar and argue with you kind of person.
But what caught my ear was apparently this year’s Coachella is offering a layaway option.
Layaway to go to sit in the desert where there are all kinds of rules like:
No chairs
No food or beverages (you have to buy the overpriced food and alcohol there, though I didn’t see anything about alcohol and I’m really not seeing the point of an alcohol free festival unless it is a Mormon Music Festival.)
No stuffed animals (what the hell is that “no” for…)
No drugs or drug paraphernalia (to me there is no point in going to the desert without taking drug, if god didn’t want us to use drugs in the desert then why did he make meth grow there?)
No parking overnight. No overnight parking…??!!! Nearest bus stop is three miles away, nearest train station three miles away…so I guess you spend 100 bucks on a hotel to sleep at for five hours. I wonder do the hotels also have layaway? Continue reading
Glassell Park on TV
Does that look like the LAPD to you? Cast of Southland
Northeast LA on TV! First scene of NBC’s new cop drama* Southland has a gang shoot-out in Glassell Park. This is the kinda promotion that makes homeowners groups and neighborhood councils squirm. It means in some Hollywood writer’s eye, Glassell Park is associated with gun toting cholos and shoot-outs. It’s hard to shake a reputation like that.
Don’t expect a show review here, I don’t think I can stand too much more of Southland. I hated the movie Crash and don’t have enough time to waste on watching a watered down reprise on TV. Besides, I just got in a few new episodes of The Riches from Netflix.
Glassell Park shouldn’t feel too sad though, at least they don’t have a whole show named after their neighborhood that has nothing to do with the place they live. For more on the Lincoln Heights TV show debacle, see here.
*If it’s a drama, why I am I laughing? Like cholos are really gonna do a drive-by in tricked out ranfla!
Good Friday in the LA Eastside
Good Friday, Jesus Christ crucified for for speaking the truth to the money changers in the temple, it’s said he died for our sins. Who’s going to die for our latest sins?
Will there be a resurrection this time or is it the end of civilization as we know it? People freaking out all over the country and killing their perceived demons. As an old viejito once said “Society is losing our minds!”
Maybe the old David Bowie song was a clue to our present circumstance.
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El Mercadito
Part of my super, duper, amazing spring break series of post, I stopped by the Mercadito to do what I do best and that’s work son. There’s more than 90 pictures coming at ya so sit down and relax for this one. It wasn’t easy, but I consider this post one of my greatest photo essays to date, not to brag or anything. I knew El Mercadito would be a challenge to shoot, by I went, I saw and I shot. Here’s a post Chavo did a while back ago for some other site. Hmm… looks like there’s a new kid in town eh Chavo ?? 😛 FYI I’m working on a separate post about it’s history and the people there coming soon.
~ This post was made possible in part by the EL Random Hero Scholarship Fund. ~
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JOE: The Origami man.
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joe the origami man
This past Sunday was the first time in a while I wasn’t on a crazy deadline and chained to my computer. With the fantastic weather I wanted to venture out (that’s rare for me). I stay downtown and saw that the Little Tokyo Cherry Blossom Festival was going down until 5pmers. The Argentines, K Pep and her brother Bobby swooped me up to roll out.
A Moment of Comfort
After one year of L.A. EASTSIDE doing it’s thing, some of us here have not failed to notice the painful disappointment we have created among certain Right Wing detractors out there.
Yes, your hate mail has been received and noted. Continue reading
Killer’s Paradise
As many of you know, I have been an art activist against the femicides that have occurred in Ciudad Juarez. My public activism in this has connected me to others that work to change gender injustices occurring all over the world. In 2007, I joined Chapinas Unidas (Los Angeles Guatemalan Women’s Group) who came together to create awareness on the femicides occurring in Guatemala. Again, the international community was faced with extreme injustice by governmental, legal and social networks for victims and their families in Guatemala. In May of 2007, we organized a press conference at Mercado la Paloma in South Central and a conference and art exhibit called “Espejo” at Sol Art in Santa Ana to discuss the femicides in Guatemala.
TODAY April 8th, at 7pm PST a discussion on Feminist Magazine (KPFK radio) about the upcoming Bringing The Circle Together film screening of ‘Killer’s Paradise’. Radio host Melissa Chiprin will speak with Indigenous activists in Los Angeles, Ana Castillo and Azalea Ryckman of Chapinas Unidas, and Olivia Chumacero of Farmlab, who have helped spread awareness about the ongoing femicide in Guatemala. You can listen in Los Angeles on 90.7 FM, on 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara and streaming live on kpfk.org. This show will also be archived if you are unable to tune in that night!  Please tune in to KPFK tonight and click more here to get data on the free screening of ‘Killer’s Paradise’ on Thursday, April 16. Nos vemos alli. Continue reading