Monday, October 22, 2007

NO MAN

So a few days ago I came home to this flyer on my door . Yes, Universal pictures is basically shutting down Echo Park for three days and requiring that we cannot park on our streets and our compensation is..... FREE TACOS! Never mind that the film will probably cost about 80 million and be a major tent pole pic starring Jim Carey. Never mind that this smacks mildly of racism [just give the Mexicans some tacos and they'll comply!] given the neighborhood. We have received what? A two week notice? Why wasn't this translated into Spanish? If it were shooting in Compton would the catering services provide colored greens and fried chicken? Egg rolls in Chinatown? Boy did they mess with the wrong building. We are now thanks to gentrification a group of white, liberal, over educated under employed mid twenties kids with something to prove. We won't stand for it!

2 comments:

Arnold Lozano said...

i understand where you're coming from. all the same, i wont lie, i could use some free tacos at this moment in my life. for me, it'd be a tough call.

Kavita said...

O.M.G.