Eye on the Street
Decatur Metro | November 19, 2013 | 2:33 pm
Commerce Drive at Sycamore Place, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Squirrel-Headed Bastard)
Commerce Drive at Sycamore Place, Decatur GA (pic submitted by Squirrel-Headed Bastard)
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The Walrus
The Walrus
The Walrus
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Rival
Marty
trish
Scott
Keith
Don the Don
Don the Don
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It’s really too bad that someone steals labels from the Post Office and then defaces the poles in violation of the law and thinks they are cute. I’m sure they use the P.O. labels because they’re very hard to get off.
Thanks Steve. We may not have much in common politically (not really sure) but I agree with you. And it has more to do with just the traditional value of an old geezer supporting the idea of just obeying the law. I sense that there is something happening in Decatur, some thing wrong. I saw it tonight at the ice cream store near Jimmy Johns. Young kids hanging around with nothing to do but hang out on a school night. Goofing off at a business, phones in hand, and looking for something. Open all- night post office, stickers, make a statement that adults don’t understand, why not? Maybe harmless fun but I’m not so sure. When I see kids who look like middle schoolers walking down business Ponce around 8:00 PM, I start to wonder, is something fundamentally wrong in our town?
I’m pretty sure I remember my father saying something similar in 19XX! Where I grew up, every night at 10 PM public service announcements would air: “It’s 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?” At least your encounter tonight occurred at only 8 PM at an ice cream shop! They may have just left the DHS/RMS X-country banquet; it ended about then. If it was 10 PM outside of someplace that sells alcohol, I’d be more worried.
But good that you care! When in doubt, look those kids in the eye with your “I know who you are and how to reach your parents” look. Even if the kids are doing nothing wrong, it doesn’t hurt to remind them that we’re all watching!
If there are girls involved, I bet they wear makeup, too.
It all started when they allowed Twain’s to install those infernal pool tables. Pool spells trouble, we all know that from the movies. And now here we are — a random and isolated act of petty vandalism, kids hanging out, walking down the street, staying out until 8 PM, cats and dogs living together . . . it’s too much to take.
There’s only one solution: a monorail. I’d launch into a song and dance about it, but I know you Decatur types love your trains, so it’s not necessary. We need to build it for the children.
Right here in River City!
With a capital “T”
That rhymes with “P”
And that stands for Pool,
That stands for pool.
We’ve surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figure out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble…
😀
It’s not for us. It’s more of a Shelbyville idea.
we’re lucky it’s only pool tables. imagine what would happen if a place opened up in town with a dance floor.
Maybe if they participated in sport they wouldn’t feel the need to hang around the ice cream store, brandishing their phones after dark.
We should all praise our respective deities daily that these kids’ idea of getting away with something is froyo at 8 pm on a school night. Having lived and taught in various places in GA, I know for a fact that this type of community – one with a small, safe city center offering a variety of benign entertainments – breeds far fewer troubled youth, and I chose to live here specifically so my son could be one of those kids meeting his friends downtown.
Have you considered carrying a patch of sod around with you simply so you can throw it down in front of these amoral hooligans, creating a prime opportunity to shake your fist and yell, “GIT OFF MY LAWN!!!” That’ll learn ’em.
I kid because I love. Keep us honest, Mr. B. 😉
Chris, the scene you describe sounds like something straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, or an episode of Happy Days. The Progressives in this town should be shuddering at the idea….
Wait, is your schtick here some kind of double-reverse-mojo with multiple layers of sarcasm, a post-modern performance art? I’m starting to see a trend – you post something that is flamingly liberal but packaged in right wing radio language to make it seem conservative, and then the supposed leftists in this town react, unwittingly taking up the principles of tradition and convention?
Nicely done if so.
Huh?
Grumpy much? I for one find this “public art” very amusing. It’s not hurting anyone, doesn’t contain profanity & it’s not offensive. Who really cares if there is a yellow cartoon monster on an otherwise ordinary utility pole? Lighten up!
One brings many, that’s why there’s a law. Don’t think you’d feel the same if they were plastered all over poles everywhere. Do you feel the same about graffiti?
Sure do. Good graffiti adds character. This isn’t a gang tag or “Kilroy was here”.
It is exactly “Kilroy was here.” I’m not saying that makes it undesirable (although you implied as much).
Nah, this has an element of expression to it, not simply repeating a meme. I’d rather see something original, personally.
I thought that figure was a known character of some sort, it looks sort of familiar. I could well be mistaken, obviously. In any case, Kilroy graffiti did have an element of expression as each person drew it slightly differently.
Actually, I do appreciate artistic graffiti, as long as it’s not inappropriate for public viewing (like overtly sexual, containing profanity, gang-related, etc.).
How would you like it on your property?
And, what is “artistic”? Way too much there open to subjectivity.
Like a slippery slope?
“…on an otherwise ordinary utility pole? Lighten up!”
Pun intended?
Of course!
So simple and learned in kindergarten-if it isn’t yours, you don’t get to take it or paint it or put ‘art’ on it. This applies equally to coloring books and utility poles and walls.
It’s art.
That’s Number Wang!
As long as they stay off my lawn.
Come on, it’s cute. “Hey Addie?” Young puppy love makes one do silly things. Or so I vaguely remember.
This same style graffiti (likely same artist) has also been spray painted in the past on a wall in the lot by Decatur CD (it was earlier this year, I think it has been removed). So while I do think it is cute, the same artist has also gone to higher levels of painting …
You will find my kids at Swirling Twirling or Yogurt Tap or walking down Ponce past 8pm. Heck – the young one doesn’t get home from gymnastics until after 715. But I think Chris’s point is more about “idle youth looking idle” than the 8pm on a weeknight issue …
or maybe he was into paint-on-walls graffiti and has now downgraded to lower levels of public property defacing. progress!