Comments on Chalk It Up to Graffiti

I saw the Jobdango chalk here in Seattle about a year ago. It looked like it was handwritten by 8th grade girls. If there were an "i" in Jobdango I would have expected a tiny heart.

yay finally seattle is being cooler than PDX

Jobdango is the most shite name for a business I think I've ever heard. I suspect it's affiliated with that horrible Fandango, that ran the insufferably unwatchable adverts in the cinemas a year or more ago?

In fact, that whole "dango" suffix makes me break out in a maculopapular rash and causes my eyeballs to bleed. Profusely.

Given that in Seattle you're not supposed to look people in the eye because that means you're one of the crazies about to spare change or Tim Eyman initiative them, it really really sucks that marketers are starting to ad up my sidewalks.

It's dangerous to have sidewalk messages in the NW. You are walking along with your latte in one hand and your iphone in the other, talking away on the phone, and you see the sidewalk message and look down to read it. Then boom, you run into someone. Your latte and iphone go flying. His latte and iphone go flying. Worse yet you have that awkward moment of explaining that of course you really weren't that interested in AIDS testing, not that you aren't gay, not that he is, not that there's anything wrong with that....

Could someone print the address of the CEO and head VPs of the firm that decided to spray paint it, so we can go tag their homes?

It's only fair.

It's not like chalk is going to hurt anything when it gets into the storm sewer. This is really dumb.

But wait, can I sue the city for putting those little chalk marks on my tires when I park on the street?

Just think how much money the city could make selling space on sidewalks for chalk ads.