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A sign on Brunswick St on Sat 5 December. I started wandering down Argyle St but found no garage sale.

For readers over 30, I"ll translate this sign: Black Pearl wishes to advise customers that the wearing of football team attire (and the primitive tribal behaviour it encourages) is aesthetically undesirable and is not allowed in our sophisticated establishment. Thank you for your cooperation.

More Rose St philosophy.

This trike is for sale out the front of the Penny Rose Boutique. It"s got some unexplained electrical feature.

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The legal dispute rant on Johnston St continues to amuse me. The offended party keeps posting rants and the building"s owners keep removing them. Recently some cool street art was added that seemed oddly appropriate.

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When I first saw this on the bin outside the kebab shop next door to the Brunswick St gallery I thought it was a comment on the state of the bin but then I realised it is a guerrilla advertisement for the fashion shop I like You on Johnston St.

A different take on graffiti at the Fitzroy nursery on Brunswick St.

I"ve been following the slow progress of the Everfresh studio on the Night Cat wall on Young St, as has Galerie Montmartre. In my last post I said I was impatient about it and was criticised for that, but now I know I"m not alone. This note was spotted on the wall yesterday.

The human conscience loses out to human nature according to this poster on Smith St.

It is comforting to know that whenever an incoherent whinger on Johnston St resorts to poetry there is a freelance vigilante editor available to help them.

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