All quiet on the Western Front - By N.L. Belardes
Downtown is eerily silent. I'm awaiting the 5:30 sirens in downtown Bakersfield. Something is amiss and I hear it entails an artistic sarcastic vision of cleaning up Bakersfield from its current dirty swooshing slogan.
By the way, the Bakersfield sign outside of town looks like the remains of a German pillbox with Charlie Brown's grafitti on it. Am I alone here? It's an ugly cement monolith. Even the druids of Stonehenge wouldn't allow it to be one of their mysterious pillars.
Hi. I am a sign with no pizzazz.
By the way, the Bakersfield sign outside of town looks like the remains of a German pillbox with Charlie Brown's grafitti on it. Am I alone here? It's an ugly cement monolith. Even the druids of Stonehenge wouldn't allow it to be one of their mysterious pillars.
Hi. I am a sign with no pizzazz.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006.
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hideous monument for a hideous town.
I agree that the sign is ugly. When they were first going up, I wondered what the ugly thing was going to be, never dreaming that it would actually turn out to be our welcome sign. However, I have to say that though I find the sqiggle as our emblem to be stupid, the leaf with our new "life as it should be" slogan even more ridiculous.
It's a half-asleep squiggle from some washed up athlete who is tired while signing baseball cards...
I don't know why y'all have such a big problem with the sign.
Hell, it's the only reason I moved here in the first place.
Okay, just kidding.
I think we should kidnap our town's welcoming committee, tie them all to the front of that sign and one by one cut their throats for them. Then we leave their bodies be and allow Mother nature to take it's course via Vultures and other flesh eating vermin.
How's that for some pizzazz?
I wanna put my ass in the circle there and take a picture.... MUAAHAH!!!!
hey!!! that's supposed to be my signature... sux if you don't like it. lol...
Maybe it's a shark fin...
..........quiet?
Not for long.
the squiggle represents the heartbeat on an EKG, then it goes flatline. the red dot is the scorching sun...we live in the flatline under a constant heat.and the hole is a visionary porthole, where travellers can view a new life dehydrated in a rotted almond orchard.
Now that had me out of my chair and on the floor...
Somebody PLEASE call me when they have the contest to replace that thing . . . I have some killer ideas . . . mwahahahah.
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