Friday, July 31, 2009
From the exhaustive Bathroom Graffiti Project, here's a bunch of humorous scribblings on bathroom walls. Remember bathroom graffiti? It was the outlet for cranks and smart asses in those hoary days before anonymous internet comments. Now it's kind of a lost art form. Thankfully, we still have purists with sharpies out there in the waste elimination world. Like vinyl collectors and people who hate the Irish, they're keeping an antiquated tradition alive.
One of these days I'll go around Lawrence and collect local examples (if you have any rococo crappers in mind, please suggest them in the comments below). Until then, from cans around the country, enjoy the lowest form of human expression besides Insane Clown Posse.
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alm77 (anonymous) says…
Gavon - Ladies rooms in The Replay (of course), and Louises downtown. Try not to get thrown in jail! xoxo
megiddo (anonymous) says…
Bacon is BEST!
oliveoyl (anonymous) says…
Replay, Harbour Lights and Louises!
jimmyjms (anonymous) says…
Anybody else watch the ICP video?
Seriously, it makes your brain hurt.
dolores2175 (April Fleming) says…
http://www.lawrence.com/weblogs/sludg...
ah, dirty bathrooms.
lacadmin (anonymous) says…
this is great, especially bacon at the taproom!
DOTDOT (anonymous) says…
Since eldotcom is one big ol dirty bathroom wall, and this blog is about dirty bathroom walls, I shall serenade ya'll with this nugget (pun, you'll see) of weirdly self referential shithouse graffiti:
Those who write on bathroom walls
roll their shit in little balls.
Those who read these words of wit
eat these little balls of shit.
(So, yeah, it's been done before but gimme a break. I'm no better at generating original ideas than Laessig is, but at least I don't get paid not to.)
gavon (Gavon Laessig) says…
Thank you all for the suggestions! I shall commence upon this grand anthropological endeavor post-haste. I'm like the Margaret Mead of shitters.
Oooh! Ooooh! Here's a great bit of bathroom graffiti I just thought of:
Those who write on bathroom walls
roll their shit in little balls.
Those who read these words of wit
eat these little balls of shit.
Completely made that up on the spot! With all of these fantastic original ideas I'm generating, why bother reporting on things other people are doing? No wonder I get paid the big bucks!
postfactumproductions (anonymous) says…
do you remember Bryan Stupareks 3D art show at the Pig? it was all stuff in lawrence. My two favorites were the mens and womens replay bathrooms. truely excellent.
the best part...in one of the pictures you could read 'fuck paul flinders' written on the womens room in mascara. brilliant. Paul loved it!