Isn't this the same piece of art that was going to be in the Seattle City Hall, but was rejected?

Those City Council members have dirty minds.

You want obscene? Look at Sound Transit's profligate spending on its marginally-useful megaprojects . . . .

Lakewood ("incorporated 1997!") is, hands down, the most embarrassing city to live in this side of the cascades. Every time we make the news it's for something hilarious/ridiculous. What does it say that, years after incorporation, my family still refuses print their address as "Lakewood" over "Tacoma"?

That place is a hot, hot mess. Does have pretty gardens tho.

That's the problem with art... it's too subjective. Someone with a dirty, dirty mind always assumes it's a cock or a titty.

I think we should do away with all art. Except for the Vegitales. Who could look at that erect cucumber and nice full tomato and see anything other than the clean family art that God intended?

I hope somebody pointed out the sculpture's other obvious drawback - it's f'ugly.

"GOD! I just wanna RAPE that statue!" -- david cross

LOL THEY think it's a wang and a boob. I think THEY'RE the ones being obscene.

I mean, you could easily say that a skyscraper is a giant dildo, if you wanted to go that way.

It IS fugly, but the only people who could possibly think it's a cock and a boob are people who haven't had a good look at either in quite some time. Including their own. "Submissions in either cylindrical or rounded forms will not be considered; cubes only, please".

What it actually looks like is a toilet plunger or possibly a toilet brush in a holder. The other thing is a lump of shit.

So? What wrong with a wang and hooter in public art? OH RIGHT, the puritanical dicatatorship... gottcha.

I'll write "Budvase and an upside down tulip" on the white board 50 times. natch'.

And another blatant example of how some members of our society - especially those of the elected variety - are determined to sexualize EVERYTHING.

Hm, those things also look suspitiously like the Washington Monument and The Liberty Bell, which of course must mean that even our cherished national icons are dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

Can someone back east please find John Ashcroft's big blue tarps and cover up those offending ojects?

Please? For the children?

i had the misfortune to grow up in lakewood. nothing good ever gets accomplished by that council. this is the area who keeps sending idiots like mike carrell & gigi talcott to represent them in the state legislature.

sharon is right. the town, and especially its elected leaders, are embarrassing.

Apprently that Lakewood is full of people with janky, mis-shapen "special" parts. If you drop trow, or lift your shirt and anything resembling that appears, you are a ringer for the freak show.

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This thing is ugly. If it takes dirty thoughts to get rid of it, I'm all for it. Replace it with a greco-roman nude with missing arms.