to protest our government's enthusiasm for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
My shiny leopard-skin-effect shopping trolley was used to ship pots of paint to the billboards. I unpacked it mostly without incident but pulling out the last pot of paint made the lid came off and the contents emptied into the trolley. I pushed it over a drain expecting the paint to leak away - it didn't but neither could I tip the paint out of the trolley without making very big white mess on the brand-spanking-new-multi-million pound pedestrian surface so I let the trolley be a paint kettle which was ungainly.
The underpass (where I was painting), attracts people who need to do a bit of public shouting - the morning was spent with three Friends of Jesus and a sound system and the End of Days. They moved on and the drunks who normally live close to my house came to sit and watch me and then an American-girl-with-a-guitar arrived, she was lovely and friendly but she only knew Empire State of Mind which she sang in the voice of Kermit-the-Frog - the drunks howled along like Youtube huskies.
I have to go back and finish the job tomorrow
Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Another post about an interesting translator: Michael S. Rosenwald at the
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5 hours ago
I wish we were neighbors. I should write something brilliant but I have chocolate sickness.
ReplyDeletexo
I wish we were neighbours - you'd like Bristol xx
DeleteCool. Will we get to see the finished piece?
ReplyDeleteMildred: Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
Johnny: Whadda you got?
The Wild One
mmmaybe - Love that quote xx
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