Famous LA commuters

Considering it's been 18 days since my last post, I guess I've been slacking. One of the many things I've been doing all this time will soon produce something I can show you. But in the meantime, a circuitous journey through the World Wide Web via my telephone and my computing machine has taken me from silent comedy star Ben Turpin (birthday yesterday) to the strangely contemporary-looking gaze of Charlie Chaplin (center) to vintage postcards of movie stars' homes. (Followed, like the tip of an ice-plant-berg, by a bunch of other vintage LA pictures, which would lead me down a whole other path.) On the one hand, it's appalling that there were actual postcards of these people's houses. But on the other hand, I'm glad these were made because they're a perfect mesh of time, subject, and medium. More on this later.