Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (sorta)

One of my favorite things about living in an undeveloped country is the relative disregard for trademarks and copyright, as compared to the U.S. For instance, a tour of any neighborhood in Bangalore will take you past several bootleg dvd vendors, and usually a bootleg book seller, too. In my neighborhood, though, there also seems to be a curious number of misappropriated celebrity images! Especially on beauty parlor signs. It's weird to be walking down the street and to look up and see Zac Efron or Kate Hudson smiling down, luring Indian patrons in with the promise of their white Western good looks. I am basically the only white lady in these parts, and yet, there is not one beauty parlor nearby that has a picture of an Indian lady outside of it! I went walking through my 'hood today with the express purpose of photographing these celeb images for my blog. But, of course, there were a lot of other interesting sights to capture as well, so this is just a mix of shit I saw today while walking around.



Kate Hudson?




Resume booster or resume killer? I'm thinking of asking for a course catalogue.....





There is also a "European Fried Chicken" KFC rip-off further away.




Baby cutting?!?!




Excessively fly-covered cow friend number one



Posh Spice?



Zac Efron...I'm ashamed to admit that I actually know who he is.




Bunny and chicken friends waiting to become someone's dinner. Sad times.




Even sadder times!! Deformed ox-like something or other being led around by beggar. I gave the guy money because I felt sorry for the animal, but I'm kinda thinking the guy made the poor thing look like that to begin with. Ugh.





Very proud and somewhat hostile cow friend number two



This guy isn't a Western celeb, but damn, he should be!



Goat friend



Hot.




David Beckham




Jared Leto and gunshots! This is where Tim gets his beard trimmed, so maybe the only one of these places that actually has a white customer.



We asked that guy if those big hangy things were testicles. He said they were not, then grabbed the testicles of that goat carcass and kept pointing at them and saying "balls, balls, you want?" He was really disappointed we didn't buy any.






Charlize Theron?



Cow friend number three




The Happy Shoppy! It's the place to go for all of your hideous pink stuffed animal/plastic flower needs.





Yum.






Mariah, Heather, and Jenny. Jenny's features "sheep foetus extract."