The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports today on a new graffiti studies program and archive at the University of Washington. The UW library's Urban Archives Database is divided into several sections; the political graffiti portfolio has 89 pix; and now we can safely say there is a photographic record for posterity of Bush Derangement Disorder (BDD) in Seattle. Remember Rock Against Bush? Bowl Against Bush? Or the celebrated theater production "Laura's Bush," which depicted her as a lesbian and was reviewed by the P-I and the New York Times, among others? Well, none of that can hold a candle to Seattle's graffitio rage for W., so lovingly documented for posterity by our state's leading public university. Bravo, UW, you've done us proud again.
Of course, the lengthy P-I article itself makes no mention of the flaming anti-Bush meme in the political graffiti archive at U.W. Perhaps this is what "Post-Intelligencer" is supposed to mean: they've moved beyond actual data. (Ken Bunting: you need a real ombudsperson now! Good news, too - I'm available: $85K per annum and a guaranteed five-year contract even if you fold before then). Anyway, from UW we've got Bush The War Criminal; Bush = Armageddon; Fear of Bush and the New World Order; The New Iraq = Torture Of Insurgent Prisoners; End The Occupation; Blood for Oil; and anti-Bush sneakers.
Then for good measure: communist graffiti in Bologna; and Police White People.
Finally, my favorite: someone defaces a building with white spray paint to declaim, "The Trees Never Hurt Anyone!" And to think some people doubt there's a future for Republicans in Seattle.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 08, 2005 01:05 PM | Email ThisYah--except when they fall on people's houses or cars and kill/injure the occupants!
Posted by: Michele on December 8, 2005 01:31 PMWhat garbage! "adorn" and "available to..." How about vandalizes side of brick building. They make out these generous vandals make their masterpieces easily accessible (as everyone is clamoring to see them) to not only pedestrians but persons, as opposed to dogs, in traffic. So civic minded!
Posted by: fred on December 8, 2005 02:05 PMIf your property were vandalized would you have the same response?
Posted by: fred on December 8, 2005 02:56 PMSmear more feces on yourself morons . . . yay!!!
Posted by: Amused by liberals on December 8, 2005 03:18 PMI've extended an invite to you to step outside of your little liberal echo chamber that is Seattle - so you can see the rest of the country where Republicans own the White House, House and Senate, and the Supreme Court. Who says we're not winning elections?
Sure, you've managed to hijack the Governor's mansion in this state for at least 3 more years - but can that REALLY compare to Justice Roberts and Justice Alito? What will you do when Brennan retires next year, and Bush replaces him with yet ANOTHER staunch Conservative?
But we wouldn't keep you from practicing your BDD (Bush Derangement Disorder), at least through 2008. What is your party going to do when you finally realize that GWB isn't running in 2008?
Said in my best Nelson voice (from the Simpsons): HA HA
Posted by: Larry on December 8, 2005 03:27 PMI'm talking about here, you bozo. Not freaking Toutle or Twisp or Tenino or wherever you live.
Posted by: Ivan on December 8, 2005 03:37 PM
You ought not bring up election complainers, lest you are ready to give it a rest about PRESIDENT Bush.
Posted by: pbj on December 8, 2005 04:21 PMGo on denigrating people that live in the suburbs and rural areas. Who cares about the poor benighted little people that live in Puyallup, Poulsbo or the Palouse. What does Eatonville, Ellensburg, Euphrata have to offer? Or Orting, Othello or Onalaska? After moving up here to Seattle from wherever you came from Ivan, no doubt you feel very superior to those poor bastards living in Bothell, Briar and Bellevue.
In fact that should be the new Democrat slogan for this state. We moved to Seattle so the rest of you can go to Hell.
Posted by: Reporterward on December 8, 2005 04:23 PMI live on Queen Anne hill in Seattle. I often see Jim McDermott in the morning (at Pat's On The Ave) while getting my coffee.
I'm also talking about where I live - in the United States of America. You're familiar with the U.S.A., right? The White House, where Republicans have presided during 5 of the last 7 terms? The Congress, where both houses have a Republican majority?
I know the Supreme Court of the United States SEEMS like it's a long way away, Ivan Bolshevitski, because you live in a state that has more statues of Vladimir Lenin than Abraham Lincoln. But it's closer than you think and it's going to be Conservative for a long, long time.
I just think that it's funny that you strut and trumpet about winning the small stuff while losing to the big boys. Sure, you won a few in Double-A ball (barely), but we still own the Major Leagues.
I've seen your comments, Ivan. You act all high and mighty, and then you descend into comments about kicking our butts all over King County. Well, bully for you! Stay here in King County, because that's the only place libs like you will be winning elections in the near future. There's a great big world out there, and you chose John Kerry to run it. HA HA. Been outside King County much lately? Are you scared? I hope so.
Who says winning elections doesn't matter?
HA HA
ps. I await your next comment about the lack of civil discourse in the country and how we WINNERS should be reaching out to you LOSERS.
Posted by: Larry on December 8, 2005 04:24 PMGreat comments to Ivan above!
Here's what a world-class city does with its graffiti:
http://www.kcb.org/kcb_cleanups.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_Blasters
Chicago started the Graffiti Blasters program 10 years ago, and I saw up close (when I lived there from 1995-2000) exactly how effective it was.
If the libs here in Seattle want to keep the city beautiful - why not start here? Clean up the graffiti, please property owners, and get rid of the riff-raff.
Posted by: Larry on December 8, 2005 04:40 PMSorry, I couldn't resist the chance at a cheap shot.
Posted by: Libertarian on December 8, 2005 04:43 PMWe keep on dragging out Strawman Liberal in order to keep your guys' Strawman Neo-Con, Strawman Religious Right and Strawman Gun-nut company.
Funny you should mention Puyallup. I am very active there, and a member of the 25th District Democrats. Y'all have a nice day working yourselves into a lather about graffiti now.
Posted by: Ivan on December 8, 2005 05:21 PMDO NOT ever chase these CLOWNS away or attempt to silence them. They always go off the deep-end. Besides, it's good for all of us to have some litmus test to compare our thinking against. If you find yourself agreeing more than 2% of the time with Kerry and Dean, you know you are going nuts!
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on December 8, 2005 05:25 PMThe UW has way too many dumb programs, employees (who may or may not be dumb), and too many tired old liberals with tenure.
That's another reason why I don't vote for any tax increases. It just goes to shore up such stupidity & waste.
Posted by: Clean House on December 8, 2005 06:35 PMThis is what they mean when they say: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." At the UW, in the Grafitti Studies program.
Posted by: Jeff B. on December 8, 2005 09:51 PMReally. Considering you live in the 34th, I find that interesting.
Posted by: jimg on December 8, 2005 09:55 PMFirst Moonbat: So what did you major in at the U?
Second Moonbat: Grafitti Studies.
First Moonbat: So why did you join the corps?
Second Moonbat: I tried to get a job all last summer and fall, and then I gave up an joined the corps.
First Moonbat: Well you are probably doing more good over here anyway, what with all the damage the US Soldiers have done.
Second Moonbat: Yeah, I f---ing hate Bush. I'm glad to be out of the country.
First Moonbat: So whadaya gonna do when you get back stateside.
Second Moonbat: Dunno? Barista, maybe.
Posted by: Jeff B. on December 8, 2005 09:57 PMThe world is a circus and it WILL be run by the clowns! Your fear of buckets of cold water thrown in your face will prove to be only tiny speckles of thousands of shards of your fractured mind.
Posted by: Apache Fog on December 8, 2005 10:56 PMYour blowhard Democrat pride of association is far smaller consolation than you imagine. Smugness about happy insanity is nothing to be proud of. You live and promote your empty ideology among fools just like yourself, too many of who will vote Democrat no matter what kind of semi-slick liberal degenerates run for office. Taking economic good fortune for granted is very foolish. Democrat dominance in your environs is hardly surprising, especially considering how decadent they have become. Don’t worry though, WHEN IT COUNTS, Democrats are going to get every bit of the leadership they voted for. Unfortunately the rest of us must go along for the ride.
What are you going to do:
What will you do when one or more of those Democrats (you are so proud of) that easily seized power through electoral corruption, uses more of the very same corruption to consolidate it? When they hold power long enough to thoroughly bilk the system, walk away leaving you and I to pay the bills and reconstruct our economy, what will you do? 1.) Cover-up for them. 2.) File for public assistance and Social Security, enjoy the poverty, and trumpet victim status and cover-up for them. 3.) Blame George W. Bush, enjoy the poverty, trumpet victim status and cover-up for them?
Liberal answer: # 3 of course, that’s your game.
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When elements of Al Quaida in your neighborhoods get pi$$ed because you are not compliant enough to them (by removing all Christmas trees) and start burning your cars, what will you do? 1.) Sell your car to Christine Gregoire. 2.) Use your car as a garbage receptacle (see above) 3.) Write off your (hopelessly over financed) Hybrid joke, declare bankruptcy, ride the bus (if there is one still running) to the Social Security office/food bank. 4.) Show the burning on television, blame it on George W. Bush, demand Federal Disaster Relief, and apologize to Al Quaida by burning a Catholic Church or a few crèches.
Liberal answer: All of the above.
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When a natural disaster breaks Seattle’s infrastructure and forces masses of liberal urbanites to subsist on the largesse of their neighbors, what will you do? 1.) Attempt to steal survival supplies from a conservative and get your dumb a$$ shot. 2.) Steal “survival supplies” by looting TV’s, DVD’s, portable CD players, and the like from local stores and from other hapless unprepared liberals and get you’re a$$ kissed. 3.) Name your dog (or wife) Katrina, blame the looting on black people, accuse George W. Bush of racism, absurdly blame him for causing the disaster, and demand Federal Relief Funding.
Liberal answer: Not 1, you’ll run. #’s 2, and 3 just like New Orleans.
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When some of these less friendly masses of liberal urbanites (criminals) insist on having fun at your expense, what will you do? 1.) Lay back and enjoy it. 2.) Join in.
Liberal answer: Various alternating combinations of #’s 1 and 2. Then you can always blame your newly acquired AIDS on George W. Bush for failure to provide condoms, and demand Federal Relief Funding.
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When so many high school students unable to read, write, or cipher, rebel by burning the neighborhoods and schools that housed them, assaulting the pathetic liberal teachers and administrators who ripped them of with liberal bull$hit, and occupying what’s left of their neighborhoods in gangs that prey on the public? 1.) Lay back and enjoy it. 2.) Join in. 3.)
Liberal answer: Various alternating combinations of #’s 1 and 2. Then you can always blame your burning neighborhoods on George W. Bush for failure to provide Federal Troops, and demand Federal Relief Funding.
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When an ultra conservative developer condemns your family home, compensates you 25 cents on the dollar so he can make a 20 Million $ profit by building a Wal-Mart there and all because pointy headed liberal bozos like Justice Bobby Bridge follow the evil trend of judicial activism, what will you do? 1.) Hide inside Wall-Mart and sleep in boxes. 2.) Burn your own house down in protest, blame it on blacks, and file a civil rights suit against Walt-Mart for racism. 3.) Pay off your back taxes and loan sharks, and use what’s left over ($1,500 or so) for a bus tour of your Mecca-Haight-Ashbury.
Liberal answer: #1 after you do #’s 2 and 3.
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When typically lazy a$$ Democrats get tired of over-regulation and simply start dumping their garbage in the streets, what will you do? 1.) Make another more stringent garbage combing regulation 2.) Cover up the garbage. 3.) Make another more stringent regulation, spend huge amounts of public money on television ads lecturing people to abide by the regulations, and continue to cover up the garbage. Fete joyously with your tolerant diversity-conscious liberal friends over the fact that your neighborhood smells just like Beirut.
Liberal answer: # 3, what else?
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When your tax and spend economics based around patching together multiple revenue streams simply dry up and local businesses are ruined, were will your neighbors work? 1.) For Ron Sims (King County Elections). 2.) For Ivan Weiss. 3.) For Ron Sims, Ivan Weiss and draw Social Security Disability benefits while campaigning for Democrats.
Liberal answer: None of the above, but you can always beg.
Ivan, everyone who reads your comments knows that you are an unapologetic partisan liberal hack, but regaling your party’s happy insanity as virtuous is more darkly amusing than anything else. Getting elected (like selling dope) is one thing. Understanding its consequences is quite another. People like you prove every day that they have no clue about how to deal with anything (other than happy talk con jobs for bubbas) let alone leading the government of our Greater Seattle area.
Thanks as usual just for being you.
The story:
deltamikecharlie.blogspot.com/2005/12/if-democrats-arent-anti-christian-then.html
Posted by: starboardhelm on December 10, 2005 10:18 AMFirst, there is no "Graffiti Studies" program. Secondly, we currently have no funding. And third, graffiti is only one small piece of the puzzle. We also have images of old advertisements and we are planning to have images of contemporary street scenes.
Finally, I'd be happy to include graffiti that might be more palatable to You Et Al.'s tastes (perhaps I'll include part of my personal collection of religious pamphlets) if I ran across more of it. After all, amongst my all-time favorites was a sticker on a hand-dryer in New Mexico that read "Push here for 30 seconds of Bill Clinton"... as well as a note in a Polish bathroom stall that read "Here we produce cheese for the USSR". Anyway, one might expect that a lot of the current political graffiti is in reaction to the current administration. And, guess what, one would be correct.
/tom
Posted by: tom on December 12, 2005 06:26 PMAnd it would still be crap that isn't suitable for anything but lining a birdcage.....
Posted by: alphabet soup on December 13, 2005 08:11 AMAnother generation of pseudo-intellectuals fully capable of barista duty anywhere (as long as their customers speak English ;'}
BTW: if I see anyone "whining" (besides the usual gaggle of brain-dead liberals), I'll let them know....
Posted by: alphabet soup on December 14, 2005 09:35 AMI'd happily discuss the larger project in person over a beer. (The original poster or Mr. Sharkansky sound like they might be reasonable fellows). Or we could save ourselves the trouble and just burn all the libraries and archives because we all don't agree with some of their content. That would be charmingly Stalinist.
Mr.alphabet soup, I give the floor to you for the final say... since you seem to like having the last word. Good day.