Standing at Astoria Boulevard and 35th Street. This is across the street from a precinct.
I’m out here looking for God. I found PRAY in Astoria yesterday. So I’m canvassing what’s left of the payphones around to see if I can find more. I think I’m just going to have to stick to the one I got. It is the hardest thing to get a picture of for some reason, but I’m going to get video instead. It’s amazing…
Someone was nice enough to send me an essay that somebody wrote for a street art convention that’s going on in Los Angeles. It was an essay about PRAY. It was somebody who comes to just about the same conclusions I do, or as any observer does. Well, it comes to the same lack of conclusion, that is. Was it really just one person? That seems to be the conventional wisdom but maybe we just want to believe that. Was it a family? He asked was it an “outlaw church?” I never heard of that.
I never thought of it but it would be interesting if she was ever arrested, or even just ticketed for it. But if she was it wouldn’t be like they wrote her up as PRAY. I mean if they did and it was somehow possible to discern that somebody was arrested for SCRATCHITI or WRITING as they called it… But you’d have to pore through countless police records from the 1970s and 80s. The essay asked that question: Would she ever have been arrested for it? He interviewed a high-ranking law enforcement officer who was like, “No way.” Nobody was going to arrest an old lady for something like that. He’d be ridiculed to no end.
So I’m happy to have found what I found yesterday, and I going to go get some better video of that.
This is a standalone phone, by the way. These are pretty uncommon.
