Going and coming
On the way to the GR office this morning I noticed that Camden Lock has closed its doors. I'd be lying if I said I walked into the punk and mod boutique on Melrose more than a dozen times, but it used to be the only place to buy Fred Perry, Ben Sherman, and Merc gear in L.A. Nice Creepers and Doc Martens, too. All from England. The woman who worked there was from Japan, and she was really nice. Ironically, the shop was featured in the L.A. Times around a year ago. bummer. I prefer buying clothes in person, but I think you can still buy stuff from them online.
For the last couple nights, I've been hearing a lot of birds outside our bedroom. I mean a lot. It's like there's trees full of them, chirping, tweeting, cawing. It's not a terrible sound--it's kind of like the Tiki Room--but at 2:00 a.m. it can be a real drag. I wonder if they're displaced animals from last week's fire at Griffith Park?
Possibly related is the scraping sounds that have been waking me up in the morning, usually around 5:00 a.m. It's a little creepy, and it's happening right at the foot of the wall where our pillows are. I haven't gone out with a flashlight yet, but I've seen the crumbled sections on exterior plaster base. Haven't seen any feces yet, but I'll take a picture if I see anything. It's probably a burrowing rodent, but part of me wonders if it's something more fortean.
For the last couple nights, I've been hearing a lot of birds outside our bedroom. I mean a lot. It's like there's trees full of them, chirping, tweeting, cawing. It's not a terrible sound--it's kind of like the Tiki Room--but at 2:00 a.m. it can be a real drag. I wonder if they're displaced animals from last week's fire at Griffith Park?
Possibly related is the scraping sounds that have been waking me up in the morning, usually around 5:00 a.m. It's a little creepy, and it's happening right at the foot of the wall where our pillows are. I haven't gone out with a flashlight yet, but I've seen the crumbled sections on exterior plaster base. Haven't seen any feces yet, but I'll take a picture if I see anything. It's probably a burrowing rodent, but part of me wonders if it's something more fortean.
posted by gr at
10:41 AM
You gotta go out there and set off a string of firecrakers and that'll solve your problem. Confucius say: When in doubt fallback on the old skool Chinese way!
oh damn, fortean times is one of my favorite magazines and always in my bathroom. everyone always asks me what the hell i buy that magazine for, but it's a goldmine of information on the fallability of human perception, folkoric transmission, and the fact that our cosmos is not - even to those who are excessively rational - easily explainable
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