Hello. I'm very subversive.

So I just got home from the Freddy’s on Hawthorne at SE 39th Ave. I bought a fifty pack of envelopes, ten mini bungee cords, a bottle of wine, and dishwasher soap. (Sidenote: who’s the MacGyver who can make a bong outta that stuff? I know you’re out there.)

Anyway. I’m unpacking my horn of plenty when I see this taped to the back of my Cascade Complete Pacs (brand mentioned because I’m not really sure if this is some faux-guerrilla-art ad campaign):

Hello. Im very subversive.
  • Hello. I’m very subversive.

And on the back of that, there’s this:

And creative.
  • And creative.

Wowzers. That just made me pity sneeze.

Though my gut tells me otherwise, I really hope this is an ad campaign. If not, that poem is to poetry as The Feces Smearer is to empathy. Anybody know anything about this? Or who is responsible? Ad agency? Subversive artiste? And, once apprehended, how should we punish the culprit? (The Geneva Convention says nothing about Crimes Against Writing. I’m at a loss.)

Take it away, Blogtown.

8 replies on “Put a Weird on It: Soap”

  3. Why the “pity sneeze?” You go to great lengths to establish how low and beneath you this free, improvised thing is. But it is apparently interesting enough to post. I think it’s interesting and should not be pissed on.

  4. From your list of purchases, it’s apparent that you’re going to get drunk, write letters to everyone you know, and then endanger your life with a complex (and very slippery) session of autoerotic asphyxiation. Can I have your stereo?

  5. I’m guessing it’s a sort of agit-prop art concerned with the environmental impact of dish soap?

    Re: Head shops on 39th & Hawthorne — Holy shit, that one next to No Fish Go Fish with the giant mural with MLK Jr, Einstein, and Bob Marley (I think) in space. That is some cray-cray right there.

  6. Quick remove the RF id from the dish soap before they find you. This is a viral ad for a Japanese movie where you buy the wrong product, read the poem, then die. It sounds like Todd saw this movie since it always looks like suicide.

  7. Heat the wine bottle in the oven, then straighten and heat one of the wire coil hooks from a bungee cord and use it to make a hole in the bottle. Make a second hole farther up the neck of the bottle for the carb. Take another hook and clip off the hook end, inserting the resulting cone into the first hole. Use chewing gum to seal.

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