Slog - Comments on Beneath the Teletubby Hill, the Reservoir http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir Am I the only one who not-so-secretly likes the neo-situationist /crimethinc.-y chalk-written slogans at Cal Anderson Park: "Is your commute worth your destination?" "Are you rewarding your curiosity?" I mean, they're no "Sous les pavés, la plage!," but they're cute, right?... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 May 2008 10:05:42 -0800 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:57:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by blank12357 I'm with you. Sous la paves is my email signature.

]]> blank12357 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035364 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 10:19:30 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver The commute one reminds me of the installation piece in the Times Square station, "Commuter's Lament" by Norman B. Colp. It's a series of Burma Shave style signs you see as you pass through one of the tunnels,

The poem goes:

Overslept

So tired

If late

Get fired.

Why bother?

Why the pain?

Just go home

Do it again.

The last panel was an image of a bed.

I used to see this every day, when I schlepped in from NJ to my temp job in the Financial District. I can't tell you how dispiriting it was and yet, it summed up exactly how I felt.

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035366 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 10:19:43 -0800 Comment by Eric Grandy The best thing about the "commute" question being written in Cal Anderson is that it targets, who, people like me who walk through the park to work? Because, yeah, that commute is worth my destination.

]]> Eric Grandy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035408 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 10:25:42 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver Ah, the beauty of YouTube. Here's a video of Commuter's Lament. The last panel appears to be missing. I think it was stole awhile ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jyRqVLKtFY

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035410 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 10:25:55 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver Ah, the beauty of YouTube. Here's a video of Commuter's Lament.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jyRqVLKtFY

The last panel appears to be missing. I think it was stolen awhile ago.

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035419 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 10:26:43 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens So you think the Situationist International might be responsible for the graffitos in Cal Andy? Well, that would explain why the fountain never works.

Rimshot!

Guy Debord est mort! Vive Guy Debord!

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035833 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 11:41:00 -0800 Comment by Eric F "Beneath the Teletubby Hill, the Reservoir"--and a crapload of styrofoam.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035859 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035859 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 11:48:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Styrofoam is a necessary evil.

We need the peanuts to make biodiesel ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1035969 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 12:21:54 -0800 Comment by kevbar What would you do if you could do something no one else could do?

]]> kevbar http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1036073 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/beneath_the_teletubby_hill_the_reservoir#c1036073 Politics Fri, 30 May 2008 12:57:00 -0800