Lee Lee Go Pee Pee

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as ...

It's heartening to see a tagger take that first step toward poetry -- especially with such well-formed script -- but I'm still upset the Williamsburg Bridge maintenance crew saw fit to erase the Chance Mexico Map above (before left, after right) but preserve lee lee go pee pee, right.

I'd like to thank TV, the Internet, and the Academy for the gutter I find myself swimming.

Titillation and humiliation rule Culture, and I am just a lowly entertainer, a spastic dervish clown dancing for your pleasure, spinning faster and faster, turning redder and redder, slipping and flopping but never stopping.

Forget the tree falling in a forest; do I exist when you stop looking at me?

Visitors

I've had more friends visit New York this year than ever before.

Mike, Terri and Rocco were here not long ago, and I like these pictures so much I had to post them (and give them a title: The Active Family).

We went to the Met, to Central Park, to B&H; we stopped at places I pass by all the time.

I'm glad I live in a place discriminating people like to visit.  Let's just hope the luxury blandification of NYC is choked off before that changes.

Related 4

Above, free speech -- that is, corporate marketing -- in the park.  On the left, a Hollywood Squares promo for a bank in Bryant Park; on the right: Ikea's "studio apartment in a box" at Union Square.  The young marketeers must be embarrassed in those dorky uniforms, but the real value of a first job is teaching Rebel Youth that all that stuff they heard about being unique individuals was just advertising.


Above, two pictures from nearly the same spot on the Greenpoint Ave. Bridge.  Left is early April, right early May.

Below, a few digital-looking hex paths.


And finally, below right, an "optical delusion" of puniness on McCarren Park that nearly matches the one in Queens on the left.

Fixing Karl Fischer 1

To fix this Karl Fischer monstrosity, lurking like a one eyed pervert at the edge of McCarren Park:

Find the oiliest strain of ivy you can find, plant it on top, and grow a massive, verdant Jheri curl (plus extensions on the side).

Sorry, I know it's not the greatest illustration.  But digital animators in Hollywood have spent billions trying to simulate realistic hair and it still looks phony, so I would be an idiot to waste any more time on this than I already have.

[ Fixing Karl Fischer 2 ]
[ Karl Fischer in The Showerhead ]