As recently noted, the Golden Circle has expanded its operations to include the selling of doughnut-based art objects and mini-stories, including the image and story below. You can browse the selection here.
The Impossible Stoplight is on the corner of Camden Street and 55th Avenue in Los Besos, California. In the stoplight’s 10 year existence, its machinations have never once proven satisfactory to any of the motorists, pedestrians or bicyclists who have passed through the intersection. Pedestrians find the light short and erratic, leaving them stranded mid-crossing, as impatient motorists, invariably bottlenecked by a succession of cargo trucks attempting to make illegal lefts onto Camden (and into the back parking lot of the ever-popular Tenderfoot’s Home Repair Warehouse) cut into the bike lane, thus aggravating and agitating bicyclists and vice versa. On the northeast corner, said bike lane is very often blocked anyway, as hungry drivers double-park and rush into one of the neighborhood’s most popular Chinese take-out eateries, Magical Lotus Fantasy. Couple all of the above with the havoc caused by a tenacious colony of feral parrots that roost on top of a traffic control switch station near Zenas Park. Despite pest control’s best efforts to eradicate or relocate the birds, their oversized nests of garbage and eucalyptus branches cause frequent fires and shorts in the system, thusly causing the Impossible Stoplight to malfunction and revert to flashing four-way yellows at least once a month for hours at a time.
Apartments near the Impossible Stoplight tend to go for at least one third below the market rate.
