note- back-dated to keep TRUE's post on top.
I hate the word 'blogger' and dislike 'poet', but those are the only words that describe what I spend a lot of time being.
I don't like 'Freewayblog' either, but it fits.
When I was looking for a phrase for a sign, I wanted something 1) short, 2) easy to read, and 3) easy to paint.
I also wanted to combine the concepts of Hurricane Katrina-as-Bush's Waterloo, and the cynical (and continuing) cororate opportunism behind the invasion of Iraq.
Then I read this -(from The Looting of America by George Bush - by Donna Cinelli , via Moxiegrrrl .
"Michael Moore recently sent a 'Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush.' He makes some very good points, but I think he misses the big point when he writes about the 'incompetence' of the government.
No one is 'running the government.' Bushco is so busy figuring out how to make money off the government, how to sell off America piece by piece, how to privatize the next service, milk the next program, that he pays zero attention, and could give a shit less, to who really runs a program like FEMA and how effective they are.
As long as oil prices go up, Halliburton gets the cleanup contract and Bechtel gets the rebuilding contract, it works for him. Hell, incompetence in government makes him more money in the cleanup and the fallout from the disasters created by his 'government.' I'll bet his buddies own the companies that make prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs."
The result -
I had one shot at getting an hour to letter it before going into work on emergency overtime. This was a lucky break, as it gave me access to a frontage road fence that parallels a hella-crowded traffic corridor.
I wanted someone to look up, read the words, and have the meaning resonate in the unguarded, preconscious mind before the thought,"Does hell go with yes!?!?"
Keep giving me your ideas. I just might invest in some Coroplast and new markers.
