# What's on your wall? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623 "2002-11-25T08:43:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/41 "2002-11-26T04:44:34Z")
A watercolor of some redwood trees and a stump and pencil sketch of a mother hugging her little daughter (both by me). ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/42 "2002-11-26T04:57:27Z")
A prototype promotional poster of the New York City Gran Prix that never was, prominently featuring the WTC. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/43 "2002-11-26T05:18:29Z")
Bunch’a walls. At work it’s just pretty much data, maps, cross-sections, notes and a calendar (January 2003). Well, there’re some articles I thought interesting pinned up, as well. At home we’ve got my degree fromm UT, a Norman Rockwell calendar from my insurance agent, a mirror mounted in a hanging picture frame, a Japanese print of some strange fruit, a thermostat, a straw broom, a Micael Priest (some rock nut will appreciate that) original for an album cover (went to his house and had him do it), an oil painting by a friend who’s now an archeologist of the moon through a window with a floating bar (experiment in perspective, I suppose) and a large tree roach that I nailed at a distance with Formula 409 a couple of years ago. He’s high up and of no particular interest anymore, so I haven’t got around to disposing of him. I have a Japanese screen in the far corner of the room. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/44 "2002-11-26T05:52:17Z")
I have an “attach shit to the walls” problem. To my right are two bulletin boards I made into collages of various esoteric magazine cuttings, as well as a colored pencil drawing of bubbles I did with a Richard Brautigan quote twining around the bubbles. I then proceeded to tape, tack and nail as much crap as possible to them, so they now have: a 7" Talking Heads picture record single of “Road to Nowhere,” a beaded egg from Escondido, a whale Christmas ornament, my HS graduation tassel, a The Doors Hot Rockin Steel hotweels car, the tiara from my Statue of Liberty Halloween costume, jelly bracelets and “Risky Business” sunglasses from an '80’s night, as well as a few other pairs of glasses, a Jim Morrison iron on patch, concert and play tickets, my misspelled Fish and Wildlife name tag, a pewter bolo depicting The End of the Trail, and a few SDMB threads I’ve printed, and my 4-H fair picture. I also have a tin Beatle’s Sargent Pepper sign, The Onion calendar, Diva David magnets, an acrylic nude of a girl with her head down and her knees drawn up to her chest, painted by my mother, a horse sketch I did from a Robert Vavra photo, personal photos, mainly of horses and dogs, and a shadow box with various horse figurines. That’s just my bedroom… ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/45 "2002-11-26T06:16:36Z")
Above my monitor is a photo of me, seconds before jumping off a bridge with a big rubber band tied to my ankle. Beside that is Mr Goo’s signed copy of a sketch of Brock in the car he won at Bathurst in 1979 (he owned the same car at one point) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/46 "2002-11-26T06:52:40Z")
Diploma from an archaeological field school. Kelly Brook poster. Blazing Saddles poster. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/47 "2002-11-26T07:09:12Z")
I’ve got a bunch of paintings I bought at thrift stores. I decided that I wanted to support the idea of buying origional art instead of posters, but I can’t even afford to buy lunch half the time. So I keep my eye out for paintings at thrift stores. Something about the idea of hanging completely anonymous art all over my house makes me happy. I’ve also got a bullitin board covered in old photos I’ve bought from thrift stores. It’s amazing how compelling everyday snapshots can be out of context. When I get lonely, I pretend like all the people in the photos are my friends. I think I gotta get out more. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/48 "2002-11-26T07:16:09Z")
A bookshelf, filled with: a James Hetfield action figure with guitar and cymbal a Jeff Hardy action figure with ladder a Lego X-Wing 3 BattleBot replicas (Overkill, Deadblow, and Backlash) a diecast 1955 Chevy stepside truck Anakin Skywalker’s Episode II lightsabre (plastic toy) a drawing by my 12 year old sister a miniature Louisville Slugger bat I need posters. Bad. -brianjedi ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/49 "2002-11-26T07:24:00Z")
On my walls: - a large print of Edward Hopper’s _Nighthawks_ - a couple dozen 8 by 10 black and white photographs by **Gunslinger** (of which the most interesting is probably the 1/24th scale Corvette parked in front of a license plate; people have asked several times whose car that is and where they found such a huge mural of a license plate, and are kinda surprised to find out that, to quote Patsy, “it’s only a model”) - two 3 by 5 black and white Polaroid prints of artsy angles of a '50s Buick, also by **Gunslinger** (from his '50s Speed Graphic press camera)… - a clock - a “No Parking, Fire Lane” sign that my friend gave me out of the blue one day - a calendar from a Chinese restaurant ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/50 "2002-11-26T10:48:46Z")
a co-worker. seriously. we were bored… and we had LOTS of duct tape. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/51 "2002-11-26T11:02:38Z")
A black military-style hat that was worn by a friend of mine when she danced in a music video. Cool hat, cool video, very cool band. And she gave it to me, which is the coolest thing of all. ---
**Author:** ![Dunmurry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/52 "2002-11-26T13:06:36Z")
I used to have a poster of a swan. ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/53 "2002-11-26T14:37:04Z")
At home I have a framed print of the famous photo “Earth Rise”, of the earth rising over the horizon of the moon. At work I have a photo of my dog and one of the Concorde (I work in aviation). ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/54 "2002-11-26T19:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > garius > a co-worker. > > seriously. > > we were bored… > > and we had LOTS of duct tape. Oooooh! I want to get one of those!!! ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/55 "2002-11-26T19:50:32Z")
the blood of my enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/56 "2002-11-26T20:12:40Z")
In my office at work: - a framed print of the Kin Yazhi ruin entitled “Pueblitos of Dinetah” promoting the 1989 New Mexico Historic Preservation Week. It is a bit dated but the picture is incredible. - graduate degree diploma - calendar - bulletin board festooned with various things including pictures of my kids, last year’s christmas card and an “I Love Middle Earth” pin from the Tolkien Society. and my favorite… - a watercolor by my three year old son depicting the two of us surfing and entitled “JB wants to be like Daddy.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/57 "2002-11-26T21:04:15Z")
My dorm room: -A poster of the Coca Cola Bears (you know…the really adorable polar bears?) -A “Chocolat Menier” French poster- with a picture of a little girl painting a sign that says “Drink Chocolat Menier.” Truly adorable. -Another French one- called “Tournee du Chat Noir” with a really evil looking black cat. -A little “Exorcist” poster in B&W ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/58 "2002-11-27T01:31:45Z")
in work, racer x tin poster, picture of a porpoise i took in alaska. at home, “nose shot” of a polar bear i took in churchill. the bear blinked. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/59 "2002-11-27T04:41:24Z")
**fizgig** , which Brautigan quote? (I love his stuff.) I have [9 butterflies](http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~lreed/butterwall.jpg) on the wall next to this computer. It is artfully surrounded by blackberry bits, flung by my bird, my bad bad birdie. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623/60 "2002-11-27T04:50:43Z")
An original Star Wars poster from the 1977 soundtrack release A chalk drawing by Ben Glenn Books, books, books, books, books, books, books A bunch of play posters for productions I have worked on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-wall/138623.md?page=4)