Three things

[paulhope]

1. I should read more books.
   
2. When I began this -ive-ournal, part of my plan was to post photographs of bathroom and other graffiti and comment on it. I remembered this today, and realized that if I did this, it would be better to have a dedicated blog for it. New hobby?
   
3. I'm trying out an ordered list this time because I think it communicates the

Comments

[polishcyclist]

There's a stephen king book, I think, where a character traces bathroom graffiti from around the country. Or records it. Or something. Anyway, rings a bell.

[paulhope]

Right, I'm that guy.

Although I think I'm going to work on graffiti from other places as well. Library carrels have a lot of neat stuff--existential crises of the exhausted late-night studier, etc.

shitcan philosophy

[anonymous]

seb, ive been wanting to chronicle the bathroom graffiti ive seen at U of W.
one stall really struck me.
i'm in there, reading the usual obligatory penis references and what not, bush-bashing etc. when i come across this little scrawling declaring "SHIT-CAN PHILOSOPHY STRIKES AGAIN!"
i didnt really think anything of this, but then as i was flushing i looked above the toilet and in massive red black letters stands : " READ ANN RAYND"

Re: shitcan philosophy

[paulhope]

I'm going to say a little prayer right now that that was actually how the graffiti spelt her name and not your typo; not because typos in general are shameful, but because it makes the idea of an Ayn Rand enthusiast scrawling in a bathroom stall so much more complete.

Anyway, I'm glad to see her name where it belongs.

--oh snap!--

Do you want to join me on this web project? I took some digital photos already. I think I just need to trim them, shrink them, and maybe filter them so that the writing is clear before posting them to probably a Blogger/blogspot blog--I think they have free image hosting. What do you say?

As I mentioned above, I'm not sticking only to bathroom graffiti, by the way. But I want the tone to be the same--a cogent message scrawled somewhere either to be funny or out of urgency or because nobody would listen to the person otherwise...

I wonder what Indian graffiti is like.

[ombilic_des]

"part of my plan was to post photographs of bathroom and other graffiti and comment on it."

Well you have been commenting on Wikipedia....

Checking my site's traffic numbers again, I saw a surge since the night before. A lot of it originated from my own Wikipedia entry. (Yes, I added an entry on myself to Wikipedia. Why haven't you?) Clicking through, I saw that the greenlighters had replaced my boring "technology journalist living in Oakland" entry with a detailed sexual fantasy involving ... a Wookiee. I read as far as "Chewie reached down with his jaw and grasped the jeans and knickers, tugging them down savagely" before taking the story down. They responded by adding a clumsy Photoshop job of me accepting a Pulitzer Prize from a Wookiee. I tried to undo it. Someone else added a British tabloid page marked up to depict me as a terrorist.

[paulhope]

Yes, I added an entry on myself to Wikipedia. Why haven't you?

Because such things ("vanity pages") are not appreciated in the wider Wikipedia community, especially since they let you make a user page. Unless what you're talking about it a user page....

I'm starting a new revolutionary society I think you might want to be a part of. More on this later.