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BSA Writer’s Bench : “Why Monuments?” by Carlo McCormick
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by Carlo McCormick
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I was sitting in a pub in Oxford outside one of the posh colleges. I needed a crap and went to the loo. On closing the toilet door I noticed the graffiti was a little different to normal. Being Oxford someone had written a rather moving love poem down the door. Being Oxford there was something more: someone else had added a detailed poetry critique. Complete with references and footnotes. Oh those wacky students eh?
(Can you beat that? Best / funniest stories will be used for B3ta radio.)
always used a gag from dennis norden's (i think) book of humorous graffiti to start a speech
[edit] on a fence overlooking the M40 (just before Junction 1 westbound), somebody has painted "why do i do this everyday?", which is certainly the most apt graffiti i've ever seen, since it's my route home from work
what a good idea
(rob, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 13:17, archived)And there's various other bits of multicoloured stuff too small to read as you zip past.
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As rain falls on Tampa Bay, sidewalk chalk art melts away
Just past our front step sat Chewbacca, Baby Yoda and a porg. Down the sidewalk to the left, an Ewok. To the right, my 3-year-old son’s stuffed tigers, Bobby and Tony.
Between them, my wife and 7-year-old daughter had chalked out messages for our neighbors:
Wash hands
Hug your pets
Take lots of walks
May the force be with you!
For the month we’ve been in quarantine, our corner lot has been our canvas, a dozen squares of sidewalk chalked up for our neighbors and ourselves. We’re hardly alone. Sidewalk chalk drawings have helped spread cheer and, let’s face it, pass time for families socially distancing across Tampa Bay.
And within about 24 hours on Wednesday and Thursday, rainy weather had wiped them all clean.
Related: Rain pours in and cools off Tampa Bay. But how long will it last?
It often feels like time has stopped during the coronavirus pandemic. No one knows what day it is, what week it is, when “work” and “school” are supposed to begin and end.
The lack of recent rain might have something to do with that. See, chalk art is meant to be ephemeral. No one’s preserving their kid’s unicorns and daisies beneath plexiglass. It’s there for a few days, and then comes a cloudburst, and if you didn’t tak