“We need to…WE NEED TO… get -on-the-sidewalk… GET ON THE SIDEWALK%2 

Another Veteran Day contribution. A fellow soldier is the subject of chow time on the Mortar Range. Note the crates of 81mm mortar rounds on the horizon. Hard work placing those on target.

An LA gallery will exhibit what is purported to be the only extant photo of Marilyn Monroe with President John Kennedy. The show, which opens June 1st -Marilyn’s birthday- also features pics shot moments after her performance at JFK’s 45th birthday celebration.

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Maria Callas-Capitol Records Building, Hollywood

To live is - to war with trolls
In the holds of the heart and mind;
To write is - to hold
Judgment Day over the self.
—Henrik Ibsen

We’re catching up on the blur that was the past two weeks, and cut off from the company supply cabinet as we are, that means sorting the loose scraps and cocktail napkins accounting for our meandering across LA’s cityscape. Top of the pile here is a Miller coaster with notes from last night’s opening of LA punk photos circa 1978 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery which was nothing but brilliant boozy illuminating fun. That’s because of our chat with Ruby Ray, the co-founder of San Francisco based Re/Search Mag who captured an iconic image of William Burroughs back in the day. “I had to get a lawyer to file a cease and desist. I’m living in poverty and they’re using my work” Ray told the Legman, rankled about her pic of the Naked Lunch author wielding an automatic-Walther Polizeipistole Kriminellmodell?- being ubiquitously splattered on t-shirts.

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Stepping out for a stroll our neighbor- a medicine man of sorts- has no qualms flaunting a transparent pack, telling us “I got a license. It’s all good.”  Unlike half the elected officials in town, he’s not confused about thelaw.