April 10, 2007

Still-unexplained tiles may or may not have an important message. These are nothing new but apparently are still appearing with some regularity. At any rate, Pennsylvania certainly has its share.

If these are some type of artwork, the artist has done some serious travelling to place them internationally. Have any monkeys seen these?

posted by kinnakeet 17 years ago
  • I am the submitter for the one on Market and 8th Street in St. Louis (under my real name). They are very weird. About the size of a license plate, not paint at all but a sort of rubbery goop, almost like tar.
  • "I'm skeptical of the concept of the dead being physically resurrected on the planet Jupiter," he says. Um . . I'll agree. And "Toynbee" is fun to say over and over. Toynbee . . Toynbee Toynbee
  • The method of placement is astonishingly effective, especially in that the tiles are made permanent and revealed gradually by the cars and people that pass over them. *still wearing hairshirt and soaking in brine to atone for yesterday's double-post* Thanks to you, petebest, my new mantra is Toynbee, Toynbee, Toynbee. Much better than the previous one, Toy Boat.
  • Oh, pish posh. Read the tiles, people It's zombie alien roadworkers from Jupiter. You can tell by the syntax.
  • Hey, another cool thing to learn about my new town. Go Pittsburgh! (and go kinakeet for the post! ))))
  • Thanks meredithea--and good luck in Pittsburgh, hometown for four generations of my family (especially Mount Washington)! It's a great city with LOTS of cool weirdness. My regards to the Mon Incline! Do you say "gumbands" yet?
  • Naw, I still have too much Texas in my accent :)
  • I just found out that Toynbee was an actual person, who did intellectual stuff. Heh.
  • Doynbee! Heh.
  • I don't get it. :o/ But here's some stuff on who I'm talking about. I found Toynbee's name reading this book, which I've been getting through at the rate of about a page per night. An intellectual reader I am not. That Zen book baffled me, and I never did finish it.
  • This may explain and while checking for a reference I found that which states I suspect Groening invented d'oh to mean just like what it sounds like: Homer is about to say "Duh" like an idiot when he interrupts himself by saying "Oh!" as in "what an idiot I am!" or "not again!" Which I had never thought of before. D'oh.
  • For some reason, this creeped me out. I mean, the idea of this guy cutting and gluing and sneaking around because he's so sure his world is straight and everyone else's is tilted.
  • "Doy Hickie"! I completely forgot about that! And, I get it now. :o) I also re-read the article, and apparently I skimmed the part where they mention Toynbee being a historian. D'oh!
  • But your world IS tilted! And there's nothing you can do about it.
  • I'll thank you to not hassle my oblate spheroid, thank you veddy much!
  • *props corner of world up with old phone book* There. Much better.