Kevin Reilly Has A Small Dick

When I went to KevinReillyHasASmallDick.info, there wasn't any info about Kevin Reilly, his dick, or anything else, just an place to subscribe to an announcement list.

Found on the 6 subway line.

Save The World; Stop the Breeding

Reducing the population by voluntary means won't solve the world's environmental issues. Underdeveloped countries, like Mexico and India, have the highest birthrates. Developed countries, like Europe and the U.S. have low birthrates. In fact, the population of the U.S would be declining if it weren't for immigration. It would seem then that the way to reduce the world's population would be for all nations to develop their economies to be more like those of the U.S. and Europe. The problem there is that economies like ours use more natural resources per person.

We need to save the earth by figuring out how to make more - energy, food, water, plasma televisions - with fewer natural resources.

Found in the West Village. Big surprise.

Lost {My} Marbles=!!!!

MRtoll's website has pictures of his poems all over the city.

Found on 4th Avenue.

Not So Cool Kids

I saw a flyer for Not So Cool Kids before and thought that they were a band. The Not So Cool Kids web site has this description:

Kings of New York.

Not So Cool Kids were born and bred in New York City. The creative energy behind the line emanates from a design philosophy inspired by the Wheel of Dharma. Not So Cool Kids <3 all the people. Pay it forward.

Using Eastern philosophy as a selling idea, not so cool, kids.

Bi-Coastal Sticker Culture

Two cities separated by 3,000 miles and united by a bi-coastal sticker culture. Thousands of web sites, bands, magazines and causes vying for your attention through the democracy of low-cost promotion. Of course, the L.A. stickers have a glossier surface.

Fuck Yoga

I can understand the backlash against yoga. There's nothing wrong with putting your ankles behind your neck but there is something annoying about walking around with a yoga mat hanging out of your bag. It doesn't make you look like you're seeking Nirvana, more like you're seeking status.

Found on Lafayette Street.

I Am Nothing

Then who put this sticker here?

Found in San Francisco.

Who Are We?

While in Williamsburg this weekend, I found this pr display put on by a real estate development company on Bedford Avenue. Developers aren't looked on favorably anywhere in NYC but they are especially scorned in Williamburg, an area poised to go from hipster central to condoburg if the developers have their way. The purpose of this display is to build neighborly good feelings, starting with the question, "Who are we?"

The adjacent window responds with answers that try too hard:

We are your neighbor
We bring our kids to play at the playground
We wait an hour for really good mac n cheese
We know all the drink specials in town
We stroll around Bedford on a Sunday afternoon
We are standing next to you on the L-train

Really, who waits an hour for mac 'n' cheese, except for a yuppy ready to spend $12 on a plate of food that costs pennies to make? Those little white rectangles are stickers that a local added to answer the question:

We pretend to be like you
We are a nightmare
We are rapacious developers
We are boutique shoppers
We don't have day jobs
We own designer dogs
We trade hedge funds
We are Eurotrash
We care about fancy bathrooms
We care about doormen


Not that any of this will prevent the spread of fancy bathrooms and doormen through Williamsburg. Like I wrote in the Defend Brooklyn post, real estate development is part of NYC. So is moving.

Bush Did It For Oil

For those who still can't get enough conspiracy theories about 9-11 , there's patriotsquestion911.com to answer your need.

Found on 3rd Avenue in the East Village.

Beers For Barcelona Video

This was made at Animoto.com.

Rebuild Us You Cowards

I don't think that it's lack of intestinal fortitude that's preventing anything from being built where the World Trade Center once stood. Even the site of a national tragedy is subject to the same real estate issues that effect any other plot of land in New York.

What I want to know is when those yellow-bellied weasels are going to do right by the victims of 1911 and rebuild the Triangle Waist Company Factory?

East/West Village Border

The East Village is way more tolerant of stickers and flyers than the West Village. We'll see if this changes as the East Village becomes more gentrified.The dividing line is 4th Avenue where I took this photo.

Parade Without A Permit

The Radical Homosexual Agenda has a problem with the city's parade permit rules. You can read all about their issues with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and New York's Finest on their website, but the gist of it is that they don't like it that The Man decides who gets to march and who doesn't.

With a name like The Radical Homosexual Agenda you're just begging to have your permit denied.

W is not healthy for children and other living things.

More from those who think that everything that President Bush says, thinks and does is evil, stupid and unhygienic. It's America's inability to separate personalities from policy that got W elected in the first place - voters preferred Bush over Gore and Kerry because Bush was the guy that they felt that they could sit down with and have a beer.

Prosecute Karl Rove

This takes bumper sticker politics one step smaller. I found this four-and-a-quarter-inch demand on a subway exit in Long Island City.

9-11 Roundup

Tomorrow is the 6th anniversary of 9-11, an event that people still feel strongly about. Here's some of the messages that have been posted around NYC.
I remember the days of "united we stand." That was before the country was divided over the Iraq war. Even the World Trade Center is still a hole in the ground because no one can agree on what to build there.

By the time I found this on a sidewalk in Long Island City, the poster looked like it had taken more of a stamping than terrorism.
For some, 9-11 marks a new era a fascism in this country brought about by the Bush administration when the threat of terrorism is merely a tool to frighten the populace into submission. You can find more stickers and posters ready for printing at www.strike911.org.
And then there are the conspiracy theorists who I wrote about earlier. The activists at NY 9/11 Truth are trying to create an NYC 9/11 ballot initiative enabling residents of NYC to vote for a new, independent investigation of 9/11. I get the feeling that even if there were an independent investigation revealing the conspiracy behind 9-11 there would still be people claiming that the independent investigation was a cover up and that there is an even deeper conspiracy behind the attacks, involving the Vatican, the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve and Home Depot.

Boxer

Sticker found on a lamp post near P.S. 1 in Long Island City. The museum is in the same neighborhood as a lot of artist's studios and is a magnet for this sort of thing.

No Smoking

Any Republican politician who takes a stand on an issue will be compared to Hitler. The comparison has been made so many times that it has become meaningless. So what will we do when the nationalist socialist workers find themselves a new leader?

Corporate Vandals Not Welcome

I too am bothered by street campaigns by big corporations but where do you draw the line? How big can your band, magazine, website or improv theater get before you become a corporate vandal?

Outlaw Books!

I like the typography but don't get the message.