Friday, 15 June 2007

  • I've Got a Date with A Wire Brush and Solvent

    So I discovered about half an hour ago that my church was tagged by graffitistis.  A few peculiar things:

    1) They tagged us round back, which makes little sense from a Mark Ecko Gettin' Up perspective.  Ain't nobody going to see that thing, kids.  You're not going to rack up any points there.

    2)  There were four tags...and one is the ICTHYS symbol. So...um...you're vandalizing a church with Christian symbols?  They even seem to have gotten the Greek almost right.  Maybe it's our local posse of Young Life Thugz, or another one of those roving bands of Franciscans who made such a mess of the neighborhood a few years back.




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  • GrundlingGoomba

    Probably making fun of you or something... man, that stinks.

    At least they're nice looking, for waht they are, ha.

    Our fence out back used to be the wrogn color- we bought an obnoxious bright pink color to match our obnoxious pink bright shed (which since been replaced, thank goodness), but it was some weird brownish-greyish-pink... thing. Well, someone graffitid it in silver, and Mayor Daley's Graffiti Busters repainted it... in the right color. It was pretty sweet.
  • anonymous

    >shakes fist in the air<

    You (bleep) Franciscans!!

    I do believe I see the word "Crew" up there.  Interesting...I can never read that stuff.
  • newworldview
    Maybe they're honing their art. Not quite ready for prime time.

    RYC: I was thinking about Harold Camping's assertion that we're at the end of the church age, but that's part of his predictions about when Jesus is coming back.
  • ZincWhiskers
    Young Life Thugz?  That's just... funny.  I heard on the news yesterday that  church near here was graffiti vandalized... obscene anti-Christian lyrics from some pop song.  At least yours are artistic?  What if, like tatoos, the whole thing could be turned around in favor of the gospel (I know a guy who can share the gospel from the story on his arms)... there might be room for that as we engage our culture.
  • truthserum
    In addition to the ICTHUS, the tag that is on the far-right of the photo may also be "Christian" themed. The portion shown seems to be the letters NOTW. As soon as I saw them, I thought, hmmmmm, not of this world.

    Then, as is de rigeur in the electronic era, I googled NOTW, and found this: http://www.c28.com/ the webpage for a Christian Tee Company that sponsors the alt-rock group Stellar Kart.
  • truthserum
    Well, this may be like the lady that found the arabic script in the tomato; or the fellow who found the image of Jesus in the mildewed condition of his bathtub, but another peek at that picture leads me to think that the tag just to the left of center reads: Jman crew. The "a" is imposed above the mn letter combination. The crew is crowned. I think the tag is a designation of a kids who see Jesus as King and themselves as part of his crew.

    Should I stop drinking? Should I start drinking?
  • Beloved_Spear
    truth: A good theory...certainly works with the other symbology.

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