Fled the suburbs to see @Girlinacoma at the Echo. Plex. As in nop. But where to park the SUV? As luck would have it, Echo Park is walled off for construction. Which means, I can actually park here! Otherwise I would still be driving around, looking for a parking space.  I love the Zone of Perpetual Construction! Nonetheless the park was walled off during the evening of April 27 2012 and I found a legal place to park on the street. End of sad story. (I never parked that close to Echo Park Lake Park ever, in my entire life! Personal Best! (high fives)).

After parking the SUV, while walking North along on Echo Park Avenue, I paused beneath a tree while an airship (i.e. the Goodyear Blimp) was passing by overhead. I briefly entertained the thought that I had crossed over to the other side of the Fringe universe. As I made my way toward the venue, the airship passed by a bunch of fireworks in the sky.

Although the airship, the lighted display, and the fireworks were ostensibly for the spectators at Dodger Stadium, I knew that these things were intended for my enjoyment alone. Eventually I arrived at the nightclub in time to hear, and sing along with, a few songs from PinataProtest. Driving around and finding a place to park took up an hour of time, so I didn't see the full set. Note to Yahoo Maps: Sunset Boulevard and Glendale boulevard is a bridge, not an intersection! Get it right!

The place is very dark inside, but I brought a flashlight with me. Girl In A Coma took the stage at Eleven P.M. (it is a night club)  and entertained for an hour and a half including a few solo songs from Nina Diaz. To begin with, I was carefully shining the flashlight onto the floor which got me from here:

To here! Cell phone camera works OK from close up. Blogger wants me to put a GirlInAComa
hyperlink here.

For some reason I had a really good time. Anyhow...


In the old days there was a vacant lot where we could park our cars. Nowadays, we can't even park in our own neighborhood. Once upon a time, we could park on our own parking lot on Echo Park Avenue. Our parking Lot on Echo Park was a vacant .lot.


Song Fu, "write a song for something that you lost and will never get back." I am changing the subject, here is a Song Fu HYPERLINK from " PROMPT #3 via AMANDA PALMER " "Write a song about the thing you lost that you know you’ll never get back. I’d recommend starting with an object & then possibly veering into the metaphysical. Any style you choose."   ",  and here's a song.

My Vacant Lot's Not Vacant Anymore
(Sung to the tune of Secret Love as sung by Frank Sinatra ) Frank Sinatra Music et. al..

Once I had a vacant lot
A place where I could park the car
Grownups took my vacant lot
They said they won it in a war

So I told a friendly bar
The way that drinkers often do
Just the way to park a car
And why the sober driver do
Now I tweet it from the lowest hill
I can't even log in to Tumblr
At last my blog's an open door
My vacant lot's not vacant anymore

Now I tweet it from the lowest hill
I can't even log in to Tumblr
At last my blog's an open door
My vacant lot's not vacant anymore
My vacant lot's not vacant
My vacant lot's not vacant anymore


Also rhymes with days of yore, nevermore, more s'mores…

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