Hey Diddle Diddle!

Links qualify as light, let's close two before shutting down& moving things around.

Unlike many of the tourist traps passing from the Hollywood scene, I have visited the Cat & Fiddle, & more than once. ('Though, like all the rest, not for a while.)

The soon-to-be-dispossessed owners warn us all:

HOLLYWOOD, we are worried for your fate, overdeveloped & overpriced. Out of town landlords who are worried about their pockets and not their souls. It's a sad place to be.

Also bummed? Morrissey:

The Morrissey online zine True to You has the singer's reaction to news that L.A. pub The Cat and Fiddle is closing in December:

The earth dies screaming

A large part of me dies at news that the pillowy bosom of the Cat And Fiddle is to close down on December 15th, making the universe all wrong. A beacon of light will soon be a headstone, and where will we now go to chew each other's fat? Yes, life is fragile and we all end up as worm chow, but the Cat And Fiddle is one of the Great Drinkers of The 20th Century, and is as stable and rooted a part of the Strip as number 77. We are all orphaned.

with funeral pace
Morrissey
Florence, Italy, 22 Ottobre 2014.

I'm only going to say that if you use Ottobre, type Firenze, Italia as well. Oh, also, the Cat isn't on the "Sunset Strip," & "77" never existed. It was imagined at 8524 Sunset, but it's history now.

In M. Bouffant history, lived across the street at 8497 Sunset OVER 40 YRS. AGO!!