Eye on the Street

Decatur Metro | October 26, 2011

Decatur Square, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Tamara)

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17 Responses to “Eye on the Street”

  1. Zanzibar says:
    October 26, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    Who are these people btw? I’m not crazy about the heternormative message this sculpture is sending in a progressive town like Decatur. Where’s the cuddling lesbians?

    • lumpintheroad says:
      October 26, 2011 at 10:36 pm

      Soooo…love is only relevant if the people experiencing it look, believe, and act just like you?

      Thanks for imparting this heartwarming lesson.

    • AnotherRick says:
      October 27, 2011 at 9:00 am

      Why are you not crazy about the message that cuddling sends?

    • Scott says:
      October 27, 2011 at 9:15 am

      Agreed! We must rally against any display of love we don’t relate to personally! Is anyone else bothered by this blatant display of octogenormative values right on the town square? Young people fall in love too, ya know!

      • Zanzibar says:
        October 27, 2011 at 10:25 am

        Hehe I was just joshin’.

        • The Walrus says:
          October 28, 2011 at 9:43 am

          It’s kind of sad they didn’t pick up on that.

          • AnotherRick says:
            October 28, 2011 at 2:55 pm

            I am a big user of irony and satire, in both my spoken and written word. It is dangerous practice however. Many people misunderstand and want to hurt you. If Zanzibar was “just joshing” I did not get it.

  2. Chira says:
    October 26, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    Still creepy after all these years…

  3. Keith F says:
    October 26, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    I love this statue.

  4. Disgruntled says:
    October 26, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    I left my bridal bouquet with them years ago. They are so sweet.

  5. At Home in Decatur says:
    October 27, 2011 at 12:04 am

    Kids love this statue. The other one too–Thomas Jefferson? But they always get confused and think it’s Stephen Decatur.

    • Decatur Metro says:
      October 27, 2011 at 9:26 am

      I guess someone’s kids didn’t have a U.S. Presidents mobile growing up!

      Though the upside is that they don’t have reoccurring night terrors involving William Howard Taft. “Don’t sit on me!” became an all-too-common refrain.

      • At Home in Decatur says:
        October 27, 2011 at 9:40 am

        Oh man. I knew the Baby Einstein mobile I had hanging over the cribs was inadequate! I should have had a U.S. Presidents mobile! We actually do have a U.S. Presidents placemat…and a Spanish words placemat, multiplication placemat, and Roman numerals placemat. I have no evidence that anyone in the family reads them–they probably think they are some Pfaltsgraff motif.

      • C.H.U.D. says:
        October 27, 2011 at 9:43 am

        That may be your oddest comment ever. Hence, it’s my favorite. I could write a whole screen play based on those 3 sentences.

      • Vermont Mom says:
        October 27, 2011 at 5:04 pm

        Seriously??