Thought of the Day

There have been more than a handful of bands doing benefit albums a la “We Are the World” for train wrecks such as Sudan and Uganda and such. This is fine and good. I am just wondering when the rock-a-billy kids are going to get their shit together and start doing benefits for the auto industry.

SE Clinton & 28th

Springwater Trail Series, pt 4

And looky here... Radio made it up.

Springwater Trail Series, pt 3

This is all up the berry bramble slope from the Springwater Trail under the overhang of a small section of the 99E heading south. I have been wanting to get up here for awhile as I could only see a bit from the trail, enough to know that I had to get up there and also that I'd probably be murdered if I went at night as it would appear to be home to folks who I assume aren't keen to unannounced visitors. Remember that movie theater scene in 12 Monkeys where Bruce Willis beats that one guy to death who attacks him and his doctor? This is the outdoor version. At least my mind try to tell me this. Luckily it was uninhabited on this bright sunny beery afternoon.

Springwater Trail Series, pt 2

Rather?

Remember when Dan Rather got jumped and as he was getting punched all he could hear was the attacker saying "What's the frequency, Kenneth?!" Well, if you have a hankering to jump him, maybe you could yell this, though he might just think you mistook him for thee Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein.
How did such a weird fucking event end up as such a shitty REM song?

Springwater Trail Series, pt 1

Good stuff out on the bike path along the river. And this HTB cat doesn't have a very imaginative tag, but the son of a bitch is like Spider Man. I have seen it in some anti-gravity-type locations.

N Lombard & Portsmouth

Beer makes silly on an otherwise blighted corner.

N Wiedler & Williams

Roller Disco/Couch Disco... Who has the bong?

Rale found the light, we brought the beer, Fellini was on the TV.
One pic by Windy W.

NW 21st & Wilson

Vinyl Kill at the Jack in the Box

Chevron Gas Station- NE MLK & Fremont

Very Activist:

Very Racist:

Very Banksy:

JUJO!

Here is a stenciled record I made for Mary on her birthday. Jujo is, obviously, her dog and he, obviously, has an attitude.

NE MLK & Buffalo

N Hodge-ish and Lombard

This was almost right in my backyard. Good stuff. I like the abstract quality of it. Is it a LSD-addled cow jumping over a moon? Who knows.

N Lombard & Portsmouth

This phonebooth has been hit in a pretty fun way. Stickers and MD 20/20 so far. Someone came through the other day and scraped the stickers away. Of course, they weren't fully dedicated to the "beautification" so they didn't take the time to get all the sticky white backing off. Now it just looks like a mess rather than a mini-art gallery for the urbanus interruptus crew of Lombard and Portsmouth (Anal, Debug, Umlaut, TME, someone indecipherable). Something tells me they'll be back to rectify the situation.

722 E. Burnside

Way to get some elevation!

Random Traincar

If I owned a traincar company I'd just open the yard to graffiti kids. It's gonna happen anyway and if they aren't rushed maybe something good like this will come of it. I know it says SOMETHING, but I haven't gotten good enough to decipher these things yet. Any ideas?

605 NE 21st Ave, aka The Mercury Headquarters

Sorry to say that Diana AND Punks are both dead. I know, it's a hard pill to swallow, but choke it down already.

Punx not dead?

I like punk too, but you gotta admit, they stopped trying in, like, 1988.

N Williams & Skidmore

Next to the Pummeled Ghost, this is my favorite pictographer.
Radio, we'll call them.