“scrape ’em if you got ’em” sixer

i set a goal for myself on this one…

…and i think i accomplished it.

i love street art. really good graffitti is something i enjoy. where harold’s studio used to be in san marcos there was an art gallery towards the end there next door that had a lot of framed graff stuff i always swore i’d get. i may have to go looking for it. but the stuff in the streets, when done right, i really appreciate. like this one…

for those who can’t read the “font” it says “keeping austin healthy”. the mildly observant will notice it has a bird and a bee on either side – which is due to this mural being outside of a planned parenthood office, which is where things got weird.

and annoying.

i’ve always seen the mural and always wanted a picture of it – but i’ve never stopped. i’ve also noticed that there’s always cars in their parking lot, but you don’t often see PEOPLE around.

i now know why…

in the five minutes i was in the parking lots taking pictures (i took several with my camera phone to frame it up right, get lighting right, etc) i got honked at, yelled, at, and harassed. did i LOOK pregnant? is there actually a level of jerk-off that would let his woman go in solo while he takes pictures outside? apparently these idiots who were yelling at me thought so, but given their stupidity about the way the world works i guess that balances out…

to make matters worse, on my way BACK to my car i stepped in gum. honestly – who spits gum out in a parking lot anymore? i decided i had to list off things that people just shouldn’t do ’cause they should know better. since i came up with it while scraping big red off my shoe, i came up with the above title…

…wait – you didn’t think that was some kind of tacky-assed abortion reference due to me being at planned parenthood did you? if so, get therapy. not even I’M tacky enough to try and do some humor / abortion bit.

but if i was…
six things i would put in an abortion-themed bit if i was actually tacky enough to do one…

1. ali g – have you seen the routine where he goes to an abortion rally and asks the protestors if they have ever had one? when they respond, “no”, he asks how they can be against something they’ve never tried, since he used to “be against burger king, but then me tried the flame-broiled whopper and it was, like, AWESOME!!!”

2. “supporting stem cell research since ’73” – i honestly don’t know if the research was around back when roe v. wade went through, but it sounded funny when i’d been drinking…

3. this image i made would probably be the header…

4. dogma – the wonderful scene where jay admits he and silent bob are scouting for girls outside an abortion clinic “because you know they put out…”.

5. if barbara bush had had the option, where would the world be now? (yeah, i voted for him…he was the lesser of two evils. but still…)

6. insert name here – “you ever notice the women who are against abortion are always women you wouldn’t wanna f**k anyway?” – who said that? google blocked me at work on this one…