Entries Tagged as 'graffiti'

Gee, that’ll show ’em

November 17th, 2009 · 94 Comments

Exhibit a) The “urban” example, from the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A…

Exhibit b) The equally ineffectual suburban cousin of exhibit a, from “a quiet, small community in San Diego where the residents are basically all over 50.”

related: bleak house

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Tags: california · garbage · graffiti · los angeles · questionable logic · san diego

Be informed, Homeland Security will be

November 6th, 2007 · 199 Comments

PES picked this note out of an apartment building in Newark, New Jersey in 2004 because he loved the third paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. Add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.

related: Your to lazy
extra credit: For more deliciousness, be sure to check out [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · gloriously redundant · graffiti · jersey · landlord · loitering · newark · not-so-veiled threats · questionable logic · shameless meme-mongering · smoking · vandalism

u will be sorry

August 26th, 2007 · 66 Comments

one of our regular trouble makers, boggywoggy (a.k.a. val in oregon) took some time off from the comments section this weekend to go fishing, and decided to grab a quick bite at waldport, oregon’s, er, finest, the flounder inn. val spotted this note on one of the restroom stalls.

adds val, “i thought about putting [...]

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Tags: bathroom · graffiti · im-speak · more aggressive than passive · not-so-veiled threats · oregon · spelling and grammar police

post-punctuationism

August 21st, 2007 · 83 Comments

explains sarah in new york city: “one lab in the building where i work has covered the walls outside their lab with candid photos of the lab members. over time, some of these photos got some ‘modifications’ from passers-by, such as a mustache or horns here or there. mature, I know. today, i [...]

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Tags: excessive underlining · graffiti · more aggressive than passive · new york · nonsensical spacing · not-so-veiled threats · office · signed with love · spelling and grammar police