Friday, September 17, 2010

Ballpark District graffiti adheres strictly to Roman alphabet in subversive call to arms

If you found the cry of the subaltern somewhat underwhelming here , you are not alone. The above graffiti has, however, inspired in me the desire to do an "installment" on a local warehouse wall, wherein I will inscribe placeholder text across the length of the facade: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. And so on. The defiant sprays of pidgin Latin will at once underscore man's inability to adequately communicate, forced as he is to use the imperfect written signifiers of the Roman alphabet as a medium, as well as the shallowness which with his words - now assembled into hopeful phrases - do wash over and by his fellow man, who wonders if "i'm" [sic] should have been capitalized, or if the lack of capitalization was a deliberate and cunning refusal to accommodate "the rules."

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