Someone defaced an Austin landmark with a duct-taped cross. The duct-tape crosses are appearing all over The Drag, and sadly the Hello How Are You frog got hit as well.
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Defacing grafitti … how meta.
That duct tape is going to be a bitch to remove.
Especially on a brick wall in texas. How ever will they manage.
How obnoxious! I’m rather fond of that guy.
Still, it should be the work of a few seconds to pull down.
Are you kidding me? It’s duct tape on a brick wall. Just pull it off.
And you can’t even get the name of your important landmark right.
Are you sure Daniel Johnston isn’t just on (or off) his meds? I can’t remember which one results in him being into Satan and which one doesn’t.
It’s the Tentacle-Breast Beast, right?
Maybe Zorro is getting confused in his old age.
That’s what Austin looks like?! Ha ha, what a dump! I knew the boosters were always a bit too enthusiastic.
Still, you’ve got to appreciate the alliteration of “evangelical vandal”; it has a lovely ring to it. A lovely, ironic, self-nullifying ring. . .
While you’re busy removing the cross, perhaps you can do something about all those weeds.
And is that was Texan frogs look like, or did it hop over from Roswell?
The church of Duct Tape Christ where we share the communion shot of WD-40.
It’s actually not graffiti, although it could pass for it. It’s a mural of “Jeremiah the Innocent” done on the old Sound Exchange record store on the Drag by musician Daniel Johnson in return for $100 and all the records he could carry.
I think Daniel Johnston himself is a pretty religious guy; he probably wouldn’t object to that cross on his painting.
If that’s an “Austin landmark”, your town sucks.
Is it just me, or did the cross make it look like the Frog’s mouth was a huge vagina?
On behalf of gynecologists everywhere, I’d like to hope it’s just you.
It’s terrible down there. Bunch of granola eating hippies who don’t know their ass from their elbows and a few whiny Californians who moved in to round out the tax base. You should definitely stay away, far away. Also tell your friends to stay away too.
OP: the vandalism is lame but at least it was pretty much non-destructive. It’s hard to get very upset about this.
Btw, The Devil and Daniel Johnston is an absolutely fascinating documentary about an artist with major mental illness(es). I highly recommend it, and you needn’t know anything about the man before watching it.
That thing looks like a Garg from Commander Keen.