FREEEEEEEE Mattress Speech

Street Mattress Art hits HaFoSaFo on this fine garbage day. Inspired by The Nothing Really Mattress:

and the Nothing Else Mattress

This fourth of July brought about much anarchy and mayhem, but the Most Ghetto Party award goes to the Mini Market 99 Cent Art studios for their Sidewalk Barby-Q with an above-ground mobile swimming pool made in the back of the Chevy S10. I suppose it doubled as fire prevention, should the rockets red glare alight too close to home. Walking about LA's East Side around Temple Street is our equivalent of running with the bulls, for danger and its flipside: the thrill of being alive.

Foot Doctor sees Sign Doctor

The Happy Foot / Sad Foot will spin again! Crews were working fervently at 10:00 Tuesday morning to put the spin back into our neighborhood landmark. Workmen assured that nothing will change; they are just repairing the motor. The sign has been immobile for months, but our oracle should soon be back and running (and hobbling)!

Totally Eclipse, Son.

HafoSafo Native Troy Burgos experiences the Solar Eclipse today through 4 pairs of sunglasses. It was awesome. I tried to take a picture of the actual event, but I am sure the internets are full of better images with better technology, but for innovative gazing Low Tech style Troy had it nailed.

Bike Exemption

Looks like the parking signs by the Tropi Cal cafe have a new addendum. It could be read two ways I suppose, either bikes are exempt from ticketing, or someone is luring them into the risk of being swept up...

Ghettobird Southside Playground exposed!

Startling Evidence: Southside HaFoSaFo IS Ghettobird playground!

Residents of the Southside of Sunset in HaFoSaFo,  also referred to as  HafoSafo Sur or Baja Silverlake, who have had reason to suspect, of late, that the neighborhood was some sort of training area or playground for low flying police helicopters -from the species Ornathacanicea, colloquially named Ghettobirds- now have startling evidence. Evidently, some  fledglings left unequivocal proof at the scene. Examining this evidence, Ornathacanics, noted experts in the life cycle and habits of the the Copter, now believe the Southside has been designated by these strange birds as a nursery/training ground.

On a recent bird watching trip through picturesque tumbleweeds and broken masonry, these rare images of an actually Copter plaything were discovered.

Yuppie Meldown

Stymied simmering Stuart stews, storms and strikes!

The elite neighborhood of HaFo SaFo North has been victimized by a crime perpetrated by a former resident. Evidently, choosy white middle class males choose car torching to mete out retribution for perceived slights in on-going disputes with past neighbors.

For years, New Zealand born "I'm-in-the-industry" neighbor Stuart has been sending lawyers after his neighbors, the Matavosians, because their dogs occasionally barked. Other neighbors who testified that the dogs were not a problem joined the hit-list and got hostile Christmas cards(!?!) from Stuart. Both he and the Matavosian family put up security cameras because of ongoing litigation.

Then Stuart et famille moved out of the neighborhood.

Friday night the Matavosian security cameras captured the image of a man attempting to blow up their car. The LAPD was called and came across a belligerent possibly intoxicated Stu lurking on Montana street with the strong smell of kerosene on his clothes. He was taken into custody.

Other unsolved auto(mobile) de feys have been reported in this neighborhood.
We wish the Matavosians peace and hope their legal wrangles have finally come to an end. We also hope Stuart gets some much needed help.