HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WIZARD? — also, about Silver Lake last weekend

The universe must be very aware that I have a penchant for MISSING/LOST fliers and strange, unusual things.  I was jogging (no worries, I don’t do it very often) around Los Feliz/Hollywood when I came across posters for what looked like a magician’s version of a garden gnome.  The actual flier is as follows:

I’m hoping the errant owner doesn’t mind that I did not Photoshop his phone number out of there.  I’m assuming that he DOES want to be contacted in the case that someone stumbles upon Dumbledore’s evil cousin.

Yes, evil.  And I’m sure it’s not just me who finds the wizard just a tad sinister-looking.  Must be the beady little eyes.

To be honest, I’m not sure who would want to kidnap this wizard or how that would even be possible.  I’m assuming  the wiz has been schooled in simple disarmament charms like expelliarmus and wingardium leviosa .  But perhaps he lost his wand in a knife fight.  Who knows?  Hollywood can be a dangerous place.

I wish I knew the wizard’s back story.  What is his name?  What is his modus operandi?  It certainly would make for an even more compelling LOST poster.

At least I think so…

So yes.  Please report back if possible.  Because nothing should come in between a boy and his wizard.  NOTHING.

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On a more serious note, ABOUT SILVER LAKE LAST SATURDAY.

I’ve gotten a few tweets and comment about us busting loose a little early at the 4100 Bar and I’m here to address them. As it stands, the neighborhood’s changed a bit since the last time we parked there and the story goes down as such: another food vendor was angry that we were trespassing on ‘his’ corner, though my contact tells me that he had contacted the bar owner previously and received his okay for Kogi to park there.  (I also find it interesting that he considers the corner his, as we were the first food truck to park there in years and have parked there quite regularly for over a year and a half, but whatevers.)  The food vendor was physically trying to fight our Kogi staff and letting loose a lot of threats. It got very intense very quickly and our contact for the bar could not be reached by phone during the attempt at a scuffle.  Our director of operations told our guys to close down and get out of there before something serious happened.

Again, we apologize for leaving early last Saturday.  It was a strange and unnecessarily heated situation and we decided to leave to protect our crew.  As badass as they are, they just weren’t looking for a bar fight that night.  Just to serve a few tacos.  I hope y’all can understand!

Love, tacos and errant holiday magic,
Aliiiiiiiiiiice