Tell us: What's the best bumper sticker you've seen in L.A.?

Hit the roadworthy successful L.A., and you’re apt to spot a cheeky bumper sticker … oregon 17. As Times contributor Renée Reizman reports, the mean that was erstwhile popularized by Dwight D. Eisenhower’s statesmanlike run has precocious is undergoing a originative renaissance. Rather than simply endorsing a campaigner oregon memorializing one’s sojourn to the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot, the latest question of stickers “is much acrophobic with cracking self-deprecating jokes oregon aligning with a niche fandom,” she writes. “There’s a bumper sticker for everybody. You tin profess your emotion for John Cage, neon art oregon frogs. You tin state your different car is simply a poem, ask drivers not to accent retired your dog oregon claim to beryllium a silly goose.”

As a result, artists, small-business owners and residents are creating their ain iterations, guided by their niche interests and oddball senses of humor. In a somewhat anthropological pursuit, I’ve collected a photograph album’s worthy of notable bumper stickers I’ve seen astir L.A. connected my phone. Their messages include: “ON A QUIET NIGHT YOU CAN HEAR MY BUICK RUST!” “DREAMS HAPPEN,” “MY OTHER RIDE IS MY GIMP” and my idiosyncratic favorite, “I’D RATHER BE SLOWLY CONSUMED BY MOSS.” Individually, they mightiness marque you pause, chuckle, gasp. Together, they marque an outsider creation kaleidoscope, offering a speedy glimpse into our chap metropolis dwellers’ minds.

Perhaps you person your ain photograph album’s worthy of bumper stickers? If so, we astatine The Times privation to spot your implicit favorite. Please capable retired the signifier beneath and taxable a photograph if you person one. You whitethorn beryllium contacted by a Times newsman to larn more.