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Out with the brushfires

In with the mudslides!

Suffer the poor

The man above is extremely ill, both mentally and physically. He is suffering from some kind of cardiovascular disease. That is not fat gathering around his legs; it’s fluid. Edema is the medical term. I took this picture across the street from the Twin Tower (aka L.A. County Jail). This was just a few days ago when I was coming or going to a doctor’s appointment – my poor excuse for a social life. I wonder where this poor soul is sleeping on a night like this. I wonder where he gets his food? How does he even walk?

Home sweet home

I like the glare in the upper left hand corner of this picture. It reminds me of how Hollywood is a place for damaged, fucked up people. It also means to me that Hollywood is not Tinseltown, it’s also just a dot on the map. Wave to the tourists in their double-decker buses everybody!

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I’m back to stir things up!

Some say Hollywood Stinks

You might want to ask this couple what they think. One thing for sure, if you are near the Hollywood and Highland complex, you should feel fairly safe. The gentlemen below are an ever-present fixture. I would suggest that they spend less time lapping up those Starbucks lattés and blueberry scones.

Pick on the black guyThe gentleman that they are hassling is a fixture at H&H. He is a precussionist. There used to be a troop of dancers and he provided a lovely backdrop for their performances. The police seem intent on making Hollywood as safe and sterile as possible.

It’s been a while since I posted a skank of the day. In the interest of fairness, today’s skank is a male:

Skank!

For the record, the day I snapped this shot, it was not even eighty degrees Fahrenheit and it wasn’t that sunny either. My definition of a skank is someone who walks around half naked. The reasons for this behavior should be self-evident – to get laid. Dude, are you that desperate?

Let’s take a look at today’s most pathetic homeless person and then call it a day.

Help them!

The Republicans will tell you that there will always be poor. But why is that? There’s that old saying that if you redistributed all the wealth equally among all the people in the country, then in a few days all that money would be reconcentrated in the same hands. That’s bullshit Capitalist propaganda. I know that if I got an equal piece of that multi-trillion pile, I’d do my best to hold on to it. Investments? Try buying a house, a car and a boat with money hands down! It would destroy the credit system as it exists today. The fact that we don’t even have usery laws in this country says much about our system. Okay, now some of this should be better left said on PoliticoGoGo. Good day and good luck!

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I’ll Never Exhaust My Resources

Dollhouse hat man

I’m talking about all the odd balls, weirdos, heros and monsters that live in my ‘hood, that is Hollywood. The gentleman with the dollhouse hat was eager for me to take his picture. The hat was his way of bringing attention to the tourists of the problem of homelessness, which is particularly severe in Los Angeles.

Poor Dollhouse Hat Man! People don’t come here to solve the world’s many problems. In fact, they come here to forget them. Take your gig to Lafayette Park, in Washington, D.C., dude. They’d love you there! It’s right across from the White House and it’s where citizens go to lay their grievances on the table for the public’s delectation.

Now my next question is, “Did this somebody REALLY run this poor guy over? The tourists seem to find it most engaging.

Rubbernecking tourists

Vehicular manslaughter?

Now here’s the video you’ve been waiting for. The most adorable thing I’ve seen in a long time and it made me change my opinion of the guy with paint buckets for drums at the H&H station.

I think this so great! How can you NOT say, “Aw!”

What’s to be done?


In the morning I see them curled up all around my building. Some of them have bed rolls. Some are on abandoned couches. It’s like Hollywood Pointe Apartments is a ship and they are barnacle clinging to its hull. I’m talking about the homeless wretches of Hollywood. The only place in L.A. that has more bums per sidewalk square inch is Downtown. It’s only natural that an urban zone’s downtown area should harbor the dregs of society, but why Hollywood? I’ll let Steve Lopez cry his heart out for the homeless of downtown. He doesn’t live there, now does he?

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