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.

Iraq Out Now - Part 3

So whoever was putting these things up around Washington Square Park last year is also responsible for the tiny "Iraq Out Now" stickers.

Found on the fence of St. Mark's Church.

Are you an indecisive SHMUCK that can't think for yourself?

Do I really want advice from someone with such poor spelling, grammar and typography skills?

Found on 6th Avenue, between 14th and 23rd Streets.

Leviticus - Part 22: Leviticus Explained

In his own words:

"Leviticus is a world famous artist producing superior quality oil paintings, public street art, philosophy books, builds "experiential" art venues, creates "experiential" orchestras and performs in "freestyle" concerts.

Leviticus produces hundreds of public street art pieces in New York City intended for public consumption and critique. This work is funded by the sale of his oil paintings.

Leviticus is changing the modern paradigms of music making by expanding the formal band structure, making it a more freeform experience, an all inclusive multi medium orchestra, utilizing all forms of human expression to harness explosive group creativity, while eliminating the audience dynamic completely.

Leviticus creates his own venues to produce his orchestras. The venue changes as the orchestra evolves and creates itself. The orchestra turns the venue into a living sculpture. The venue is than made available to the public to be used by promoters, event planners, and various groups that need superior space to house their agendas.

In 2004 Leviticus opened the Glass House Gallery in New York City. Leviticus closed it down in 2006 after recording 40 Glasshouse Orchestra albums. These recorded videos can be seen on Glasshouse Orchestra YOU TUBE."

I found this on Broadway, hanging from a traffic light post.

Leviticus - Part 21: Global President 2008

Leviticus throws his hat in the ring for the Global Presidency. The bottom was torn off before I found this poster but his message to the people includes the words "drowning", "dead + forgotten" and "nightmare."

Lost {My} Marbles=!!!!

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

Found on 4th Avenue.

Penpal Wanted

The text reads,

"write me a letter:

lola
1394 Lerner Hall
2920 Broadway
NY, NY 10027-7004

then i'll write you back, and if you feel so inclined, you may write me again, and so on and so forth until we tire of it."

Lerner Hall is the student center of Columbia University. I found the flyer in Union Square

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.

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.

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.

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."

!!! 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.

Leviticus - Part 20: Crucified

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

LOST DOG!!!!!!

Hell hath no fury like a an illiterate woman scorned.

Found on 4th Avenue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You Said You Have Brown Hair 203-432-1050

Another poke from The Bureau of General Inquiry.

Found in Long Island City.

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.