It’s in a “sealed” overpass, so it was good through the afternoon. Here’s how it looked a few hours later.
And from the road.
I figure it’ll last until tomorrow at least. I usually get about three days in that particular spot. It varies. This one was up for eleven days.
If you’re a civilian, getting in requires scaling a fairly easy wall, walking through some abandoned homeless camps and climbing into this place:
Of course if you’re CalTrans you just have to open a padlock. It’s a funny dance we do, CalTrans and I. On one hand I am technically trespassing in an area that’s closed to the public, but on the other hand, they probably want to know if they’re Russian too.
I put this one up about half a mile further.
It’s an open walkway, so it only lasted about an hour, but to quote Edna St. Vincent Millay,
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!
Besides, I got the message out fairly loud and clear on the way up:
In between posting this
and this
I noticed this:
and recognized it as the work of a couple who found me on twitter and who, like me, are closer to sixty than fifty. Y’know, there’s only about a dozen of us who actually do this seriously, and all of us are closer to sixty than fifty.
Funny, isn’t it?
I think it’s fairly clear to most of you that we are currently being attacked by Russia. Fortunately, we live in a nation founded by people who gave us the absolute right to say “We are being attacked by Russia” as loud as we fucking want. Especially when we’re being fucking attacked by Russia.
This morning my brother called me and asked me what I was doing and I said, “I’m in a shitty motel room painting a sign that says ‘We’re being attacked by Russia. Pick a side.’ and there’s nothing at all crazy-sounding about that!” (The questionable status of my sanity has become something of a running joke between me and my brother. And everyone else I know.)
I’ve put this message up in at least 20 major cities now, and even though I’m the only one that’s doing it, I’m still standing firm on this: I’m not the crazy one — the rest of you are crazy for not doing it.
Anyway, the bad news is the President’s a traitor and a stooge for Russia and those, frankly, are his good points. The good news is we live in a country where we have the absolute and unassailable right to point shit like that out — however we want, as many times as we want, to as many of our fellow citizens as we possibly can.
So come on — help me out here.