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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 – The Underworld

Superior Glass – that has a nice ring to it. It's actually a glass and mirror shop on the corner of Wilton and Hollywood Boulevard, over in East Hollywood – under the sign that reads Little Armenia and amid all the Thai shops and restaurants – it's a mixed-up neighborhood. And the street art shows it. This is the mural at Superior Glass.

In Greek myth, Charon is the ferryman who carries the souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron, the two rivers that divide the world of the living from the world of the dead – the underworld, Hades. Hades is not the later Christian Hell of course – it's just where everyone, good or bad, ends up, rather bored actually. And a coin to pay Charon for passage was always placed in the mouth of the dead, or a coin on each closed eye. You see, those who could not pay their fee had to wander those river shores for one hundred years, stuck, as they were neither here nor there. And here is an updated Charon, for our age.

And directly under this odd ferryman, what seems to be the underworld –

Are you scared yet?

And above it all, a scholar of Greek myth –

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