anger on Normal Avenue
Julie Wonka was quite pissed when she woke up one morning a few weeks ago to discover that all of the Obama yard signs on her block were stolen. So she decided to respond to this rhetorical violence with some rhetoric of her own. She went to Menards (a Home Depot-type store)--a feat in itself, as the last time I went to a home improvement store with the Wonka, I had to respond "yes" when she asked me if this experience made me wonder how she ever made it through the day. Once at Menards, she purchased a massive piece of plywood, some red spray paint, and an entire roll of "private property" yellow tape--you know, like the crime scene tape you see on tv. Getting this piece of plywood into and out of the Rav-4 was no easy task and involved quite a bit of swearing, but she did it, and she made this sign:
She took it down a few days later, when her partner told her that he was having a hard time sleeping for fears of crazies firebombing the house. The smaller sign is still in the yard. But on Wednesday, November 5, we're hoping to pull the plywood sign out again. And then we'll sit around in a circle and drink champagne.Don't fuck with her freedom of speech. Try to silence Julie Wonka, and she'll only respond even more loudly.
posted by aerobil @ 9:11 AM
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We've had a rash of Obama/Biden sign thefts too.
Another interesting yard-sign phenomenon I've noticed--for weeks, Republicans had changed their McCain signs to McCain/Palin signs. I've noticed in the last week or so that almost all of them have been changed back to just McCain signs.
Syracuse TV news reported last night that they've received reports of both demo and repo signs being stolen--though it seems a number of the "stolen" ones were actually removed from public property (e.g., parking strips, etc.). (There was a boatload of Maffei signs down the middle of Erie yesterday, which made me wonder...)
I liked the local demo spokeswoman, who put a positive spin on the situation by suggesting that folks were just so excited to have Obama/Biden signs that they were helping themselves. Of course, it's easy to be that upbeat in a blue state, eh?
Our lawn sign was trashed. And then there's this.
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