Dang Kids Didn’t Mouth Off So Much Either
I must be well on my way to becoming an old fart — I’m starting to get pissed off a lot more at the little things like graffiti.
It’s not like this area of the city is Graffiti Central, and there’s actually been fairly little in the time I’ve lived around here, but it’s been on the rise lately. The sides of the LRT walkway bridge, the pedestrian overpass, and the bridge supports at the ends have been particularly favourite targets. The city occasionally comes out and paints over it, but lately it seems to come right back again.
This latest round even seems to be directly mocking the efforts to stop it: on one large wall they’ve written “DON’T LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT” in large letters, and along the walkway they’ve scribbled brief sentences along the lines of “they suppress what they can’t control.”
Well that’s all fine and dandy…except they’re not really saying anything. Spraypainting vague little platitudes that everyone already knows doesn’t make you a freedom fighter, it makes you a bored little punk who wants attention.
Down with the bored little punks who want way too much attention! ;-)
Comment by Jenn — 6/1/2005 @ 6:54 am
*look at me*
*LOOK AT ME*
I’m posting… LOOK!
.. Hi. :)
Comment by wade — 6/1/2005 @ 1:54 pm
Fuck you.
So what if they desecrate your stone prison? You and your sucking off of the man can blow me when you’re done with him. You whore. At least someone stands up — as best they can considering the alternatives.
You wish you had balls
No, just a fucking panzy in a glass cage. The worth of the glass preventing you from swinging the hammer.
Comment by Anonymous — 6/11/2005 @ 10:40 am
Those are pseudo-powerful words coming from someone too afraid to step out from behind the safety of anonymity. I would have been inclined to partly agree — I think graffiti is a negative term describing something that is quite positive — but the owner of this page is nothing you accuse him of being.
You speak as if graffiti is some form of anarchy or rebellion. It’s not. It’s the unbound, uncontrolled free-form artistic expression of a couple generations of oppressed people. You wanna swing a hammer so bad? LEARN HOW, junior. It ain’t by playin’ the game the man does, I agree, but you’re way off nonetheless.
Whoever you may be, “Anonymous”, you’re certainly not one with balls of your own… now are you? :-) Damn shame. Your aggression could be useful if it wasn’t so misdirected.
Comment by Paul The UnixCentric — 6/11/2005 @ 4:04 pm
I’m sure the graffiti strikes fear into “the man” every time he sees it. Give me a break, Anonymous.
Comment by Matt — 6/12/2005 @ 1:02 am