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!

[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.

[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

[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 :)

[spatch]

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