{"id":8421,"date":"2015-01-25T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2015-01-25T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:13:56","slug":"urbanscapes-2014-the-democratic-mayors-republic-of-north-bangsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=8421","title":{"rendered":"Urbanscapes 2014: The Democratic Mayor’s Republic Of North Bangsar"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n6th December 2014: Urbanscapes 2014<\/a>, at Awana Horse Ranch, Genting Highlands! I took so many pictures that I had to split this blog post into two parts.<\/p>\n


\nBut first, a look at The Democratic Mayor’s Republic Of North Bangsar<\/b>, a gigantic walk-in parody full of puns and comics, all for picture-taking and laughing. Oh, and Zunar.<\/p>\n


\nA road burial site.<\/p>\n


\nOh so punny!<\/p>\n


\nSee if you can figure out which section of Bangsar this is supposed to rhyme with.<\/p>\n


\nThis, too!<\/p>\n


\nThey’re on a roll here.<\/p>\n


\nAn iconic staple of Bangsar, of course…<\/p>\n


\nAnother place I know in Bangsar.<\/p>\n


\nInside, posters with Jon Mayor adorn the place.<\/p>\n


\nThey even have their own doctor, and their own hospital.<\/p>\n


\nA gym, too!<\/p>\n


\nThe inside.<\/p>\n


\nMore great portraits of Jon Mayor, Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n


\nHis biography, spotted on a lighted cube.<\/p>\n


\nThe other side.<\/p>\n


\nYup, his pet car Pony Eusoff.<\/p>\n


\nMore glorious representations of the Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n


\nA mural.<\/p>\n


\nA cinema, showing posters of movies he was featured in!<\/p>\n


\nSadly, I did not get to watch any of them.<\/p>\n


\nOn the plus side, they did show his artwork.<\/p>\n


\nSome wild animals captured, on display.<\/p>\n


\nJon Mayor, with Tenacious D.<\/p>\n


\nJon Mayor takes a selfie, like all good politicians out there in touch with their citizens.<\/p>\n


\nThrough a peekhole.<\/p>\n


\nPerhaps it was time I went to see the Mayor!<\/p>\n


\nThere he was, upstairs, approachable as always. I kissed his hand for good measure, as a sign of respect and submission.<\/p>\n


\nThere was music! Lawrence Graham<\/b> had a DJ set.<\/p>\n


\nThere were YouTube superstars!<\/p>\n


\nThere was poetry and spoken word!<\/p>\n


\nFreedom of speech!<\/p>\n


\nSheena, not the punk rocker.<\/p>\n


\nThe crowd was colorful.<\/p>\n


\n+2db +Jon Mayor (who’d later have a DJ set, which I missed.)<\/p>\n


\nI did not, however, miss his speech. This was the beginning of Comedy Hour – Kuah Jenhan & Rakan Rakan<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nHe truly believes in multi-racial representation, with a token Indian comedian…<\/p>\n


\n…and a token Malay one, who is also female! Sharmaine would also point out the postcode of North Bangsar is a cheeky 80085.<\/p>\n


\nAnd, of course, an educated doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6th December 2014: Urbanscapes 2014, at Awana Horse Ranch, Genting Highlands! I took so many pictures that I had to split this blog post into two parts. But first, a look at The Democratic Mayor’s Republic Of North Bangsar, a gigantic walk-in parody full of puns and comics, all for picture-taking and laughing. Oh, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}