Charles Eicher at Disinfotainment has a wonderful story about and the fauna of LA’s Chinatown.

As we approached, I saw about 30 cats standing around the back of the store, yowling, scrambling around by a fence, keeping them from the dumpster which was overflowing with waste. I’d never seen anything like it. We tried to avoid that scene, I told my friend to peek in the front window. He looked through the grimy window and started screaming and freaking out. He asked me if it was always like this. I said, “what? It’s just some chickens in cages.”…

It ends in a scene of medieval warfare. Yeah, I know that feeling. But this sort of thing is more well-hidden these days. Hopefully, Yee Mee Loo’s is also just very well-hidden, but I fear that a bar this good must have met same fate as those poor chickens yearning to be free.

Posted by zota at 02:19 AM

There’s an old conspiracy theory/secret history/urban legend narrativized in the form of a book catalog.

(Oh yeah, it’s true — disinfo has all the dirt on Ong’s Hat , if you’re sure you want to know. But that’s a whole other story. )

Using epiphenomenal commercial structures to create an ambient narrative through accretion. That was the genre used by Henry Raddick, star Amazon Reviewer, who became a famous [1-2-3] for being tangental in review comments. For example his take on the book God, Why Did Dad Lose His Job?

A truly wonderful guide which has enabled me to explain my recent sacking for vandalising company property to my children in terms of a minor act of redemption. First rate.

Stories told through marketing ephemera and graffiti. Stories told in the background through an accretion of evidence and seemingly random misdirection….

Posted by zota at 11:05 PM