PUSSESSED

Think you know what’s happening in L. A.? Wrong!!! There is a movement afoot, right under your nose, and you haven’t been called.

Amidst the trendy shops in the trendy section of Melrose between Fairfax and La Brea, there’s one I hadn’t noticed before. Munky King is located just west of Pointsettia, and the joint is jumpin’. Hundreds of anxious consumers have been lined up since seven o’clock this morning, waiting for the store to open at three this afternoon so they could buy … a toy! A small toy bear called, Pussessed: as in, possessed by the devil.

No one seemed to know the name of the artist who created the toy, but they’ve been waiting for it for three years; Munky King is apparently the only store in town – if not the only one in the universe – that has it; the crowds will continue through at least eleven o’clock this evening; and the “show” – I couldn’t find out what that is, but it has something to do with the toy – will continue for three weeks.

I confess, it’s a bit unnerving to find out that a major art movement is taking place within a few blocks of my house and I was completely in the dark. I’m gonna have to start reading L. A. Weekly or something.