THANK you! I was trying to figure out why that weird-looking frog looked familiar.
I always thought that thing was ugly.
Has the frog been known to sing “Hello, my baby, hello, my sweetness/hello, my ragtime doll!”?
But only when no one but you is looking.
But seriously . . . what’s up with the weeds growing higher than the newspaper boxes? Even Phoenix takes care of itself better than that.
Funny, considering how Daniel Johnston certainly has more experience fighting Satan than whoever put up that cross ever will.
[snerk] We’re just happy that something appears to be growing in the heat in the middle of the drought.
My office is about 200 yards from the old Sound Exchange/Crave restaurant. I wonder how long it’s been there; I was just there a few days ago and didn’t notice it.
I’ve been told it’s a “Lady Bird thing”; it’s natural, better for the environment when they’re left to grow and not killed with pesticides, and so on. Seriously. In Austin and the surrounding suburbs weeds grow quite high in curbs, medians, tree lawns, and similar areas, and unlike other cities I’ve lived in, they’re almost never trimmed. It really makes the region seem unkempt and dirty. It also makes me shudder at the thought of what Austin women are like … 
Just went to Crave on the Drag and the duct tape is gone. Shit, I’m sure the tape peeled off from the heat.
I miss Austin. Ah well, I should be back by next Spring.
Are you serious? You can just take the damn tape off.
On the one hand I strongly disapprove of evandalical vangelism on principle. On the other hand, on the scale from “OH MY FSM THEY DESTROYED IT” to “vandalism? What? Where?”…
Huh?
Oh my flying spaghetti monster.
If only they had duct taped Jesus to the cross instead of nailing him.
If I was there and you pointed at that wall and said “Oh no, vandalism!” I’d assume you meant the frog, not the duct tape.
Ditto, and can I just say that I think Daniel Johnston is WAAAAY overrated.
Oh, y’all shoulda seen the shitstorm a few years ago when the restaurant that’s there now opened up. The owner was going to tear down the wall and put in a window. When people got wind of it, the pickets came out. The owner realized that if he didn’t change his plans (and incur significant financial hardship in the process), his restaurant probably wasn’t going to do so well.
I am glad to hear that all they did was duct tape it and that no damage was done.
Wow. I think I saw the guy do this. I was on the drag and walked past a guy with a roll of duct tape standing by the frog. I didn’t really think anything of it. Wow.
So, do you think this was a premeditated thing – “You know, I think I’ll go out today and duct-tape a cross on ol’ Jeremiah!” – or more of a spontaneous confluxion of opportunity, concept, and duct tape – he was just walking down the street, his trusty roll of duct tape at his side, when suddenly, he had an idea?