I see something staring us in the eye

[sovay]

Someone has spray-painted a penis in the middle of Wallace Street. derspatchel and I noticed it for the first time on Tuesday night and again this afternoon as we ran our separate errands. I mean, as anatomical graffiti goes, it's not a great penis. It looks kind of like a circumcised rocketship. But it is recognizably the representation of a human phallus, and therefore I have this persistent feeling that I should sneak out in the middle of the night and add wings to it, thus cementing it as a protective symbol for the entire street.

I am not sure it would go over as intended.

It's really tempting.

Comments

[movingfinger]

DOOO ITTTT!


For one thing, wings would shift its register from adolescent wiener-waving to whimsy, which would be rather for the better.

[gaudior]

I mean, as anatomical graffiti goes, it's not a great penis. It looks kind of like a circumcised rocketship.

I love you.

[phi]

You should do it!

[kate_nepveu]

Yes, absolutely.

[genarti]

Agreed!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I would go and do it if it was me.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Do it do it do it! Would give the entire street more class than the present erection.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

If you do, please take documentary pictures. And if it does in fact protect the entire street, will not the neighbors thank you?

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Protective symbols are important. It's a pity the person who did this didn't have the sense to add wings themselves, although I suppose they perhaps didn't know.

It's really tempting.

I can see why. I can't encourage anybody to engage in graffiti, but it seems a very appropriate modification.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Of course, that would guarantee that it would stay.

[sovay]

Do it do it do it! Would give the entire street more class than the present erection.

I would have to procure spray paint. There isn't even chalk in this house.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I was about to suggest finishing its conversion into a rocket ship. :)

Come to think of it, someone added a phallic portrait to the top of our cul-de-sac awhile back, too. Maybe I should give it the rocket treatment. I may even throw in a couple of little green men.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

If you have a deviantart account, Ursula Vernon went on a kick at one point where she drew a bunch of these. Someone compiled a helpful list at http://roxysavage.deviantart.com/journal/Phalloi-Art-by-ursulav-231414835. (You need a deviantart account to view only because they're behind an age-appropriate filter.)

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

If you do it, the next temptation will be to add one of those nonchalant little women riding it with a saddle and bridle. It's kind of cumulative, like "If you give a mouse a cookie..."

Not that there'd be anything wrong with all that.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I have to say, the idea of flying penises makes me feel rather UNsafe. So I am unable to contemplate the subject with the, er, detachment it seems to require.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

A good defence against the evil eye. I forget the phrase in Pliny. Something about a remedy against enviers?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Go for it!

(Do they fly in formation?)

Nine

[sovay]

I forget the phrase in Pliny. Something about a remedy against enviers?

Medicus invidiae! Craig Williams in Roman Homosexuality has a great description of some of the things that fascina do to the evil eye in visual representations, from ejaculating in its eye to sawing it in half. Which is just batshit and awesome.

[sovay]

Come to think of it, someone added a phallic portrait to the top of our cul-de-sac awhile back, too. Maybe I should give it the rocket treatment. I may even throw in a couple of little green men.

Go for it! And supply photographic evidence.

[sovay]

Of course, that would guarantee that it would stay.

I would way rather look at a winged phallus every day on my way into Davis than your run-of-the-mill badly drawn dick.

[sovay]

(You need a deviantart account to view only because they're behind an age-appropriate filter.)

Alas, I do not! Knowing her drawing style, that should have been adorable.

[sovay]

(Do they fly in formation?)

I don't know; that postcard cited in the UCL blog seems to think they were sold out of baskets and had attractive tail feathers, which implies that perhaps they flocked.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

How domestic of them! Cocks of the walk.

Nine

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

WORTH IT

[sovay]

WORTH IT

I'm pretty sure.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

+1

[coraline]

I will be your lookout if you do it :)

(because i'm not certain the world needs more de novo phalloi, but it certainly needs all the random dick graffiti turned into phalloi :)

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

One should strive to avoid ejaculate in the eye.

It stings like a motherfucker.

[spatch]

POSTING FROM THE FUTURE TO SAY
THERE CERTAINLY WAS NO PREMEDITATION INVOLVED
THEY JUST GAVE US THIS SPRAY PAINT

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've seen some of those. Also tiny winged phalloi fighting each other with swords.

[sovay]

Also tiny winged phalloi fighting each other with swords.

THAT IS SUCH METAPHORICAL OVERKILL IT'S AWESOME.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Heh. Pass me a brush.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/2009/11/26/3666/

(Warning: phalloi, vore, things that lend new meaning to certain memes.)

ETA: And I found some re-posts: here and here.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I was just thinking that somebody should take a look through Red Wombat Studio and/or Ursula Vernon's LJ and/or her tumblr.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of that student of C.S. Lewis who referred to the theory of courtly love as a "vast medieval erection." Though of course this would be a classical one.