Tanka 'bout Town

The daily challenge
to purchase a drink and snack
and not wait behind
walls of people brandishing
Keno numbers and scratch cards.

Right...

Sometimes I look at a graffiti sticker and get more curious, sometimes I just want to leave it alone. I'm not sure what my decision on this one is yet.

Tanka 'bout Town

Bookstore schedules
Great Pumpkin for appearance,
then he just no-shows.
Oh, Great Pumpkin! You're going
to drive poor Linus crazy!

Thanks, Marianne

A new month, a new sticker from Marianne Radnitzky found on Centre Street. I think I could post one a week for the rest of November. I am spoiled for choice this fall season.
 

Happy Halloween!

Here are two of the better pumpkins I've seen. I call them Evil Cop and Eviler Cop.

Little Deaths of Childhood, Part Thirty-Two

Sad little hat.

I Know, I Know

Someone out there is trying to give me advice. I want them to know I'm really trying to follow it, but it's hard, okay?

Lately

I've seen a lot of police around the Forest Hills T stop lately over the last couple of weeks. Both morning and evening. I wonder what's been happening there?

Now It's Officially Fall

It took a while for Autumn to get going, but we finally got a bunch of new stickers from Marianne Radnitzky all around Jamaica Plain. 

This Week's Friendly Reminder

Message aside, there are groups out there you should consider supporting. 

Yikes

No ghosts this week. Here's a photo of a sticker with a drawing of a scary unicorn. So scary, I clearly couldn't keep my phone camera in focus.

City Haiku

Warm October rains
fail to convince anyone
summer is over. 

Little Deaths of Childhood, Part Thirty-One

At least someone gave this joy a fighting chance, propping it on a pipe.

They're All Just Flockin' the Street

The Turkeys had my back for this meme.

 

They're All Just Flockin' the Street

So happy to see the turkeys come out on such a dreary day.

Why Guy in 2026

This  last"Why" from Why Guy's initial run of graffiti is still holding up. It's actually easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for. The tenth anniversary of Why Guy will be in (roughly) December 2027. I wonder if it will last. 

Tonight

Saw a group of people in the Forest Hills T stop singing. 

One was dressed in a dinosaur costume. 

It's all well and good when spring is in the air.

But fall just...hits different.

Your Weekly Dose of God

Saw this while out and about yesterday. That's the thing about religion. You can't really control who people are going to canonize as saints. Even if it's a joke, it means something. 

On the Other Hand

The "No Ice" graffiti that's been around for a while had it's first big hit in a while with a sticker placed right in the middle of it. Putting the number for the Veterans Crisis Hotline on a graffiti decrying a unregulated paramilitary group is certainly a...look? 

Nice to Know

It was a rough summer for graffiti, but the "No Nazis in JP" writing on this pole is more or less intact. I say "more or less" because it looks like someone took out the "s" in "Nazis." Because it's hard to photography art on a pole, I often miss the "s" and can't tell when this happened.