Squid on a crosswalk
Well, exactly.
Were you reading my mind, Alberta Street stenciler, or my graffiti post from last week?
I practically hopped in excitement: a surreally non sequitur graffito, stenciled in an original location, and — in an admirable display of restraint — just the one.
And did I mention: “squid on a crosswalk“?!?
Squidney (as I have dubbed him) is even biodegradable … or just degradable … whatever.
Point is, after a few months of bicycles and bio-diesel fueled Subarus grinding over him, there won’t be anything left but a faintly tentacled memory.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:58 am
This is one of things that brings me hope for the world. It’s like the STOP signs that have added stickers or stencils like, “STOP driving,” or “STOP vegans.”*
It makes me feel good that there are real, live people in the world doing real, live, random things. It’s good, it’s very good.
*please note, I am a vegan and I think this is funny. I smile every time I see it.
September 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Yeah, when I see something like this I always think “score one for my team”, in which my team is, as you put it, “real, live people in the world doing real, live, random things.”
To my mind this random squid is a pure contribution to the common good.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Richard, I know it’s been a while since you posted this, but I got a kick out of it when I surfed over from Havi’s blog. I thought you might enjoy this picture of a cartoon cop on the end of a guardrail that my dad shot when he went to the coast a few weeks ago.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
That’s hilarious … but what the heck is he holding? Looks a little bit like the Trix rabbit, foiled again!
November 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Good question, I was puzzled by that too. The legs look almost like squid tentacles, but the ears are definitely all rabbit. We’ll just have to enjoy it as one of life’s little mysteries.
By the way, when I said coast I meant Oregon coast, somewhere between Seaside and Lincoln City. I can’t remember where Dad said that they went.