It seems this column has become enamored with chickens of late. Previously we wrote about chickens raised in Chicago’s backyards; this week it’s a ’73 Volkswagen Beetle with an identity crisis.
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“Chicky” is owned by comedian, painter, and Hideout barback Amy Gard. She got the spray-painted Bug in LA, where she was living in an arty neighborhood up till about a year ago. There she knew a semifamous graffiti artist called Cache, whose oeuvre, if you can call it that, was painting stoic, Angry Birds-esque chickens on mudslide-preventing sidewalls around town. “We’d both spray-paint with our bandit masks on in the middle of the night,” said Gard, explaining that’s sort of how they knew each other.
Well, almost unique. Gard had spray-painted her first car, back in Missouri, too. The design? A fried egg.
