What a week...[BONUS EDITION]
This 'birthday week' has been dizzying with weird things happening (like coming face to face with 2 coyotes last night!). There’s been an overwhelming influx of 'signs' and unusual occurrences coming my way everyday (thankfully, with multiple witnesses!)...but THIS ↑, this one takes the cake! The Los Angeles Times chose a random photo I took on 6/13/13 in Hollywood as their featured 'Reader Photo of the Day' at the LA NOW blog! (The title they went with truly amuses me...)
If I could only explain the 'forces' that pulled me to drive out there the evening I took this photo, if only I could put into words how much that exact spot in Hollywood means to me, how many nights of mayhem and debauchery began walking beneath those bronze shoes, how my life literally changed from all of it...if only...
...and the cherry on top is the serendipitous 11:11 screencap. ♥
ADDENDUM
Less than a week after I went out to Hollywood alone that evening to take pics, a woman was stabbed right on the sidewalk in front of everyone near Hollywood & Highland, one of the busiest spots on the Boulevard. :( LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three panhandlers were arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame," Los Angeles police said.
Officers found the 23-year-old woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Homicide detectives say the woman and a friend were taking cell phone pictures in the tourist-packed area where the three suspects were holding signs and panhandling. Police say the photos caused a dispute after the panhandlers demanded $1, and the victim was stabbed in the torso.
The woman later died at a hospital. She was identified late Wednesday as Christine Darlene Calderon. Family members told the Los Angeles Times that Calderon knew the Hollywood area and sometimes spent time there with friends. The area, which saw an increased police presence Wednesday, attracts beggars and costumed street performers who demand cash for posed pictures with tourists.
Her mother, Yolonde Tassin, told the newspaper her daughter had completed her GED and had recently registered for classes at El Camino Community College. "Her plan was to become an engineer," Tassin said. "She didn't want to waste years. She wanted to get in there and do it right."http://omg.yahoo.com/news/woman-stabbed-killed-hollywoods-walk-fame-215507318.html