to mandarin in london
Wednesday 24 January 2007 | someone left a cookie
Because only she will properly appreciate the poignant beauty of the Stray Shopping Cart Project, for the sake of which a methodical gentleman by the name of Julian Montague has “worked for the past six years to develop a system of identification for stray shopping carts. Unlike a Linaean taxonomy, which is based on the shared physical characteristics of living things, this system works by defining the various states and situations in which stray shopping carts can be found.” He divides them initially into Classes A and B, True and False Strays…and it just gets more bizarrely engrossing from there.
I’ve seen several fine specimens stranded in the snow here of late, in particular three left to languish outside DeVargas in an unintentional ice pond, but never seem to have my cellphone on me when I pass them, these lost Grizabellas, these abandoned girls. There were some tragic ones in México, too, though I didn’t get any pictures. So from the SSC Project website, then, these portraits of lost trolleys, especially for my travelling murcielago.
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I love this. I will get some batteries for the camera and see if I can spot any more while I am here in Londres. I have not actually left the house since arriving but expect to go up to Finchley tomorrow, which is not actually known for its wayward trolleys. Love to you!