Wednesday, June 3, 2015

On the way home tonight, I was sad to see that they changed one of the billboards near Wilshire and La Jolla (near Wilshire and San Vicente, west of Fairfax). I usually get stuck in traffic and spend some good quality time near that traffic signal and, about a week ago, they updated the third billboard in a row of three.

What we had as the first billboard, just west of La Jolla, with an ad for "San Andreas" that had a close-up of Dwayne Johnson as a pilot or something. The third in the row was an ad for "Ballers", again, with Dwayne Johnson. This time he's got some sort of championship ring or something. His arms look pretty huge.  He looks really good in both (as you do when a movie PR machine is picking out the billboards).

What was sandwiched in-between, you ask? I'll tell you! An IFC ad with a slightly disgruntled curmudgeonly-looking Marc Maron sitting in, what looks like, a huge number of those small multi-colored balls kids play in.

If you are familiar with Marc Maron, you'll know the expression.  It looked like he was thinking "Of COURSE my billboard would be placed between two with The Rock on them".

In reality, I was probably the only person who who noticed, and/or thought it was funny.

I'm glad I got a couple of pictures on my phone (while my car was stopped thankyouverymuch) before Marc Maron went away.

It's the little things that make me laugh. :-)


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