Friday, May 30, 2008

Private Eyes for Hire!

Sherlock Investigations will locate people, do background checks, conduct surveillance on a cheating spouse and, if the photo is any indications, run across rooftops while up-tempo funk plays in the background.

Found at Joe, on 13th St.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Keep The Ten Commandments

Crazed Christianity - just the way I like it. Both postings insist you to follow the Ten Commandments and listen to Christ Radio at 53AM.

Best line: "Teenages and people in Hell are suffering terrible."

There wasn't an intact posting of this one so I had to capture it in halves.

Best line: "A face of a woman was on a bats face on a front page news."

Found on Broadway above Union Square.

Monday, May 26, 2008

What Do Forced Abortions, Slave Labor, And Asbestos All Have In Common?

What do forced abortions, slave labor, and asbestos all have in common? The comedy genius of Totie Fields, of course.

Found in Washington Square Park.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood

This is the East Village that I remember, or at least how I like to remember it.

According to Reverend Jen's Wikipedia page, she is "an American Performer, underground movie star, writer, prophet, painter, director, preacher, poet, troll museum founder and a self-described 'Patron Saint of the Uncool and Voice of the Downtrodden and Tired' from Manhattan, New York City."

Along with "time travel", "dancing unicorns", and "arts + crafts", the flyer advertises live music by the Clean Teens. On the Clean Teens MySpace page, they describe their sound - "We sing about fried chicken, spaceships, chicks with dicks, coke, and forced sex. You know, life."


Wednesday, May 21, 2008

!!! LOST DOG!!!

I don't think that Simon is lost. I think he got sick of being dressed in stupid outfits that his owner thinks are cute and ran away.

Found in Coldwater Canyon by Rob, our west coast correspondent.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Leviticus - Part 20: Crucified

A promo for one of Leviticus' paintings. Found on St. Mark's Place.

Friday, May 16, 2008

LOST DOG!!!!!!

Hell hath no fury like a an illiterate woman scorned.

Found on 4th Avenue.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Guru Pitka Will Teach You Sitar

Guru Pitka is the main character in "The Love Guru", the latest Mike Myers comedy. I've never been a Mike Myers fan so when I saw him doing improv at the Magnet Theater, I was surprised at how good he was. He didn't do any of the shameless mugging that you see in his movies.

This looks like a take off on the ubiquitous "Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar" fliers.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Tony Alamo Christian Ministries


I remember Tony Alamo. I first read one of his crazy newsletters when I was a kid in Los Angeles. If that's a picture of Tony, it must be an old one.

Handed to me in Union Square.

Friday, May 09, 2008

The Campaign Against Scientology

Someone has it in for Scientology. Through the websites whyweprotest.net and xenu.net , and now fliers, the enemies of Tom Cruise are waging an info war on the house that L. Ron Hubbard built. I found all three of these around Union Square in a week.

I don't know. Which 70s sitcom were you on?

The people who vehemently oppose cults are often as fanatical as the cults themselves. If everyone ignores Scientology, it will go away.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Zumwalt

Friends or suspects?

One found on 4th Avenue, the other on 14th Street. Both were slipped into the display window of a free newspaper boxes.

Monday, May 05, 2008

You Said You Have Brown Hair 203-432-1050

Another poke from The Bureau of General Inquiry.

Found in Long Island City.

Friday, May 02, 2008

Trees Slaughtered By The Bloomberg Administration

The verb slaughter is usually used with animals and sometimes people. It doesn't go with trees.
Also, trees lost the Battle of New York centuries ago and you can't single out Bloomberg as the guy responsible for their absence in the urban landscape. He's the guy that fought so hard for congestion pricing, a way of deterring driving in the city which would have done more to improve the air than planting trees.

Found in Union Square near the statue of Ghandi.