It's Not Over Until Everyone Votes!

It's over when your candidate drops out of the race.

Found on 4th Avenue.

Japanese Flyers

Considering how many cultures share NYC, it's remarkable that 99% of the stuff that I find is in English. Here are a couple of postings that make up the other 1%. I have no idea what they say.

Found on 4th Avenue.

Juggling Lessons

I found this right outside my apartment on 11th Street. That's perfect because I need a trainer for the upcoming Eccentric Triathlon. Now if I can only find someone to coach me in the unicycling event.

USSA Hillary

Calling Democrats commies seems like something that would have ended with the Cold War but here it is, this time directed at Hillary Clinton.

As the Senator from New York, Hillary hasn't done anything radically leftist. In fact she hasn't made any sudden moves that could harm her chances at presidency. She even voted for the Iraq War when it seemed politically expedient. In that way, she is very much like the leaders of the former USSR, more interested in accumulating and holding onto power than in fostering a revolution.

If you hate Hillary, you can download this poster, and other anti-Hillary posters at unsavoryagents.com.

Rob found these in Los Angeles.

Ron Paul For President

I posted before about a dollar bill with a Ron Paul message on it. Now his campaign has stepped up to flyers.

The media would like to paint him as a kook but his views aren't that weird. They're just an odd combination of Democrat and Republican positions: "He believes in socialized medicine and Government medical coverage for All" and "Is strongly against big government and believes the government should let Citizens run their own lives."

As of this writing, Ron Paul has 6 delegates. That's 2 less than Fred Thompson and 4 more than Rudy Giuliani.

I Am Nothing

Then who put this sticker here?

Found in San Francisco.

1040WAR

I got this from a group of super lefties that are out in Union Square every weekend protesting Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

This flyer protests the enormous defense budget, specifically how much the U.S. spends on Israeli and their military. You can see a full-size copy of the flyer with all it's facts and figures here.

In a city with a larger Jewish population than Jerusalem, these demonstrations always attract an angry response from passers by .

Splendor & Death

Just as things are slowing down in NYC, Rob, our left coast correspondent, sends some street sightings, this one from 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.

The Flyer King

You would expect someone who calls himself The Flyer King to have a great flyer. Not only is it awkwardly designed, it makes claims that aren't true:

"Flyer advertising is the most effective way to increase your business."

Not if you're a doctor, lawyer or Mercedes dealer.

"The POWER of exposure will triple your operation in no time."

Triple? Where does that number come from? And how long is no time? This statement is somehow vague and inaccurate at the same time.

Lastly, Dan refers to himself as "the flyer man." He can be either Dan the flyer man or Dan the flyer king, but the title has to be consistent.

I doubt that this flyer will triple his operation in no time.

Do You Love The L Train?

When I was reading the story behind Love Bound Train, it reminded me of a flyer from deep in my archives, one that I had collected but not posted. This is the flyer that launched the project. From the "hello" page on the site:

We put up 1,000 flyers along the L train line in NYC with the direct phone number to the love train suggestion hotline. We recieved over 700 calls ranging from love poems to death threats directed towards the train.

Hello Resolver

Part of a promotion for the Love Bound Train, a Brooklyn-based arts project.

When winter comes, the flyer population thins and I was wondering if the changing face of New York was also part of the dearth, but this proves that many creative people still live here. NYC isn't uninteresting yet, merely less interesting.

DieKu

Nick Beef returns with another haiku written with names on tombstones. This one has a chess theme:

Bishop block castle
Knight leap castle spear bishop
Queen downs king, check mate

Found near Union Square.

Kalindi's World Message

This is the cover of a CD I found on Avenue A. Copies had been left on random horizontal surfaces to be picked up.

According to the Gourasana website, "Kalindi was given the destiny by Gourasana to be a spiritual Master for the world and the Voice of God, to speak for Him, to bring His teachings, His guidance, His love, His energy, and the exquisite truth that the world has been crying for."

This is Gourasana, The Golden One. Gourasana is an incarnation of God in the body of a guy named David Swanson. He looks like some dude who thinks he's found a way to make a lot money and bang a lot of chicks with something called Miracle of Love^®, a vaguely Eastern religion.

Sounds like complete horse shit®

ZEPP

Now that Led Zeppelin is playing live again, tribute acts like Zepp will have to compete against the real thing. But without John Bonham, even the reinflated Zeppelin is an imitation of itself.

The Robe

This is ominous.

Calling the number at the bottom gets you Majestic Robe of Santa Monica. Maybe they just sell robes, but maybe they're also murdering teenagers for Satan.

Guitar Lessons!!

Dan Smith isn't the only six-stringer slinger in NYC who teaches. But before you take your first lesson, you can get your blues name at The Blues Name Generator.

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.

Leviticus - Part 14: The Artist At Work

Last Friday evening, the family and I needed to get out of the apartment so we went to the Starbucks at 2nd Avenue and 9th Street, not our usual location. While I was snagging a table, I noticed that, on the table next to us, there were what looked like Leviticus postings, mid-creation. A minute later, the face that I had seen on a few postings returned to the table. He had a large stack of typing paper, the words already written on them in Sharpie, and was going through a fashion magazine, cutting out pictures and taping them below the text.

I went out the next day, looking for one of his creations but couldn't find any. From what I saw, I think they were going to look like this:

Artist's interpretation.

Meet Duchess

At first I thought this was some sort of furry event or American Apparel promotion, or both, but it's for Cats on Broadway, a musical. According to The Bruce High Quality Foundation site, "Set on the border between Bed-Stuy and Bushwick (Broadway, Brooklyn) and performed in the newly renovated Bruce High Quality Foundation Theater (1100 Broadway, Brooklyn), Cats on Broadway brings together an all-volunteer cast of performers, musicians, stagehands, and designers to reflect the emotional conflicts of the gentrification of Brooklyn while satirizing both the utopian reform schemes and self-pitying nihilism often associated with the artists responsible for gentrification’s 'first wave.'”