“Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.” Lord Chesterfield
I walk past this piece of graffiti on my way to work sometimes:
I was thinking about it last week. On the 16th a guy was hurrying trying to catch a muni streetcar. He didn’t make […]
Most public artwork is awful. Here in San Francisco, my favorite big pile of suck is the Vaillancourt Fountain on the Embarcadero. It was famously described by the San Francisco Chronicle’s architecture critic, Allan Temko, as resembling something “deposited by a concrete dog with square intestines.” (photo credit goes to elston from […]
Cable Cars run on cables: Duh, but wait, I’m going somewhere with this. Cable cars have no on board power, which is fine because they move, after all, by grabbing the cables beneath the streets. The cars also spend a fair amount of time “off rope,” meaning that they are rolling along without […]
Different places have different strengths and weaknesses but, when you are talking about men’s room graffiti, liberal cities rule. The combination of Hipsters and beer is a potent one, compelling use of the men’s room and thus offering superior opportunities for the application of stickers and judicious use of magic markers in what can […]
