It's possible that I'm uptight.

It's also possible that the folks who run this bar lack the kind of creativity and positive energy that brings in good & consistent business.

just sayin.

Drop off your girlfriend night?

for real?

not that this surprises me, knowing the history of the Iron Monkey...

but come on Steve.

get it already.

"Grafitti is an art form that, like other art forms, arises out of an attempt to speak -- or an attempt to be heard. As an attempt to exist. We make art, write poems, create sculptures because for some reason, we are compelled to create.

Many people have frowned upon my insistence that NO GRAFFITI IS BAD GRAFFITI, even if the text or images are profane, obscene, hateful, or inciteful. (Most grafitti is not the aforementioned -- but when it is, it calls attention to a person that needs embracing, or it is a call to a community to respond with dignity and strength, which, in general, they do.)

Graffiti makers are sometimes artists (as in http://www.graffiti.org/cinci/cinci_16.html), and sometimes graffiti makers are simply people who have something to say. Maybe the painter wants to say "I exist -- and even though no one seems to see me, or care about me -- I still exist and I am going to write my name on this wall to prove it." Maybe the painter wants to say, "I am so angry about X and I have a need to respond to it in a very public way." Maybe the painter chose this medium out of a love for spray paint, or maybe the painter chose it because oil paints (27$ a tube) are three times the price of a good can of spray paint (8$ a can).

Any artist, actor, musician or poet will tell you, "I am a (writer.) I have no choice." This drive to art exists as frequently and as fervently in multi-racial teenagers from "bad neighborhoods" as it does from white girls from Rochester, NY. My artwork (the books I've recently sent to many of you) has no greater value than the "BAM" tag on the bridge. I write poems because I cannot stop myself. I am constantly attempting to exist in a public way, or at least in a way that forces other people to acknowledge me. The same is true of the graffiti artist."

Text taken from www.readspeakresist.blogspot.com

I believe it's the same person. Can anyone corroborate?

Even though the article refers to the man who hit all those cars as "Tim", everyone called him by the name "Tom".

I'm 75% sure it's the same person.

This is the same guy who crashed into 6 or 7 cars in front of the Light Horse Tavern on Halloween.

Check this article out.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... er_plows_into_cars_m.html

nice guy.