RIP B-I-N-G-O

L.A. Weekly columnist Seven McDonald wrote a wonderful eulogy to everyone's favorite dachshund, the recently deceased Bingo. Anyone who had spent any quality time in Silver Lake's Sunset Junction area -- or even just a fleeting moment -- fell in love with the bacon-loving Bingo. (Bingo was given one of L.A. Woman' s Choice People Awards in 2007 as he brightened our days as much as any two-legged, life-loving Angeleno!)

Officially the charge of Sarah Dale, proprietor of the hipster boutique Pull My Daisy, Bingo soon became everyone's beloved pet (especially if you fed him bacon from the once packed, now-closed EAT WELL restaurant next door!) Sadly, Bingo was getting older and his judgment must have been impaired the day he darted into the street. His death was quick but his memory will last as long as those of us who adopted Bingo are still eating bacon (now the tempeh variety down the steet at the popular new vegan hang-out Flore).

Bingo's memory will also live as long as Annie Sperling's fabulous mural (in the photos below) lasts. Elliot Smith isn't the only one with an enduring spontaneous memorial in Silver Lake! (Except his doesn't feature meat products.) Rest in Peace Bingo. W hope that in rock 'n' roll heaven they have a helluva lot of (tempeh) bacon!

(Photos via L.A. Weekly. Top pic by Joe Keeper; bottom pics by Stephan MacDougall.)