Letter To The Editor - Living Next To Toon Town

I sent the following to the local paper, it'll be interesting to see

if they actually print it or not. It's possible that they're getting

kick backs from the group who is abusing grant money to paint the shit

up there in the first place. That's generally the way things run in

this town, everyone buys everyone else off and it's all about who you

know and how much money you have. That's no exaggeration either,

every other month there's some huge new scandal in this town where

it's "revealed" that someone was taking kick backs, or someone was

paying off a health inspector to look the other way, or someone was

raping teenage girls (the police) and the department just ignored

evidence and allegations (until they were made to the police

departments in surrounding cities). That last one was the funniest

btw, when they had police from, I think it was the Tri Cities, who

came here to Walla Walla and arrested some of our police officers. LOL

Anyway, here's the article I sent about the nasti-art they painted on

the building across the street from me:

Living Next To Toon Town

I live at 548 Edith Ave, down the street from Walla Walla

Penitentiary. The other day I woke up, went about my usual routine,

nothing out of the ordinary...until I looked outside. Across the

street from my home is a large warehouse style building. It's

definitely not the most appealing landscape, but I was able to get a

really good deal on the house because of it. Unfortunately for me a

group of so called "artists" has taken it upon themselves to PAINT

this large metal, billboard sized monstrosity. So now, whenever I

open my door, whenever I look out the window, instead of seeing a

large, non-descript metal building...I get to look at giant, brightly

rainbow colored, kitschy, cartoon looking GRAFFITI. Yes, it is

graffiti, it is by no means "art" in my eyes and at no point did

anyone ever bother to ask me, a home owner who lives directly across

the street from it whether or not I would approve of such a

disgusting, eye-piercing slather of infantile coloring.

From my perspective it looks absolutely horrible, no different from a

neighbor suddenly deciding to paint their house hot pink with green

and orange polka-dots. But it's worse than that. Why? Because the

people doing it, the people painting the side of this building with

their "art"...they don't live here. They don't have to wake up

everyday, look outside and be subjected to a Disney style invasion of

the senses. They get to go home when they're done, a home that ISN'T

directly across the street from a giant, billboard sized, rainbow

molesting rendition of the artists favorite birds of paradise in a

shocking, over saturated, blazing Technicolor like palette.

I wonder how these artists would feel if someone went to THEIR

neighborhood and painted the most offensive thing to the artists that

they could think of on the side of their neighbors house. I wonder if

they would be as infuriated as I am. I wonder if they even took the

bother to consider that what THEY think of as "art" may NOT be

considered as pleasing to the eye as those who are being FORCED to

look at it everyday. I mean if my idea of "art" is a giant flaming

skull with blood dripping down off of it, well heck, shouldn't I have

just as much right to paint that on the side of their neighbors house

as they have painted THEIR idea of "art" on the side of mine?

--

Onideus Mad Hatter

mhm ? x ?

http://www.backwater-productions.net

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Hatter Quotes

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"Don't ever fuck with someone who has more creativity than you do."

"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the

best."

"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you

with it."

"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my

bad."

"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity

of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct

that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others

of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start

creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that

they're just born with a soul. snicker ...yeah, like they're just

givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.

So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,

to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly

horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip

their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand

sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible

images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even

properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,

endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you

don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton

tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a

function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.

Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast

indicates an increase in Webtv users."

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gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )