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The Found Walrus
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No Jaywalking by The Found Walrus

July 17th, 2008 9:08 AM / Location: 34.065600,-118.4393

INSTRUCTIONS: Follow the traffic signals!

Choose a neighborhood with plenty of traffic signals. Walk a path according to their desires, determined using the following rules:

- If there is one walk signal, cross the street in that direction and continue walking straight ahead until the next corner.
- If there is no walk signal, turn the corner without crossing the street, and keep walking straight ahead until the next corner.
- If there is more than one walk signal, retrace your steps to previous corners until the signals take you in a new, clear direction.
- If there are no traffic signals, cross in the direction that you are already facing and keep walking.

Continue on in this way until you either hit a dead end (i.e. you are supposed to walk straight, but there is no more road) or you find yourself back at a corner that you have already visited.

LA is secretly a Beatles fan, and Westwood has some very strange quirks which I discovered by doing this task. I had not planned to do this, particularly so soon after Loki's excellent completion, but I was walking down through southern UCLA/Westwood this morning after work and suddenly realized what a perfect environment I was in.

Two maxims by which I try to live: 1. If you own a camera, there is no excuse not to be carrying it. 2. If carrying a camera, particularly a digital one, there is no excuse not to be taking pictures.

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I am he as you are he
as you are me
and we are all together.
See how
they run
like pigs from a gun
I'm cryin'.
Sitting on a cornflake
waiting
for the van to come
Corporation t-shirt
stupid bloody
Tuesday
Man
you been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long
Yellow matter custard
dripping from
a dead dog's eye
crabalocker fishwife
pornographic priestess
Boy, you been a naughty girl
and you let your knickers down
Semolina Pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary penguin
singing Hare Krishna
man, you should have seen them
kicking Edgar Allen Poe
I am the Egg Man
Coo coo kachoo?

8 vote(s)

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Adam

 5

Loki

 5

lefthandedsnail

 5

Xena

 5

Rainy

 5

Jagganath

 5

Ben Yamiin

 5

Sparrows Fall


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posted by Loki on July 17th, 2008 7:15 PM

Nice tasking. Declaring the city employee a sign seems very much in keeping with the spirit of the task. (And also, that's the second time a backwards-going bicycle has come up in the last week, which is sort of surprising. Something may have to be done about this.)

(no subject)
posted by lefthandedsnail on July 17th, 2008 7:48 PM

Your protest was on NPR this evening.

(no subject)
posted by Rainy on July 18th, 2008 6:34 AM

Thank you, that was most enjoyable.