Let's Hear It For--

       

---BANDAGES!   For some reason can't get comments to go higher up, next to first image, but astute reader will have perhaps grasped the day's theme nonetheless.  Recuperation! --a good thing even for a graffiti bear who appears to be missing his lower half.  May we all experience it.

First image: archival newspaper image, c. 1910; second: photo by moi, taken in Mission.  The final image is from an artist's zine I bought at Printed Matter in NYC and though I have the scan, I can't seem to locate the Ding itself, so am unable--at the moment alas--to credit the zine-maker.