It may have been dubbed “insane” and “beyond troubling” by a New York Times architecture writer and another City Commissioner respectively, but Randy’s Neon Rose(TM) is officially up. 
NEON ROSE: MOUNTED TWO DAYS EARLY…
“Everybody thought it was going up on Friday,” says Commissioner Leonard. “But I was walking across the bridge this morning and I saw them pulling it off the truck and mounting it.”
I think I’m most alarmed that one City Council person can wake up one day and think “I want a big frickin’ neon rose!” and a couple of months later, there it is.
Our council is a bizarre collaboration of tyrants, who fail to keep each other in check. Well. Two tyrants, and three ineffectuals who fail to keep them in check.
As if I needed another reason to avoid the waterfront…
It’ll be a target for vandalism/teenage thefts and I give it less than 6 months.
Crap I ride my bike right past that building on my way to work. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
There should be a neon cowgirl riding that thing.
Beautiful! Now, more than ever, this truly is the City of Roses.
It has a nice lubricity. How many sharks can we jump before it’s finally time to move to Dundee?
It sure is a rose.
Take that, architecture tools.
There’s a sink hole the size of a garbage can in the middle of the street a few blocks away from my house. Been there for at least 3 weeks. Who knows how long it’ll take to get it fixed. But Leonard wants a giant argon-filled rose and BAM, done.
Can we just start over with city hall? Even those of you who don’t support a recall have to admit that any and everything regarding any and everything happening in the council is completely ridiculous.
@CH
You’re talking about the one next to Pho Da Lat aren’t you? It’s bigger than a garbage can. There is a hole starting on the other side of the sidewalk…or should I say bridge?
I tried to post a version of the following earlier- has it been censored?
Ode to a neon rose
there she blows…
a neon rose
from a fireman’s hose
bespeaks our lows…
but that’s how it goes..
a chorus of no’s
yet still these woes
and ribbons and bows
from a fireman’s hose
Humpy HATES poetry……………………………and rightly so
who’s Humpy?
It’s ugly and I hope it’s a rock magnet
god dammit
Just think of it as a JEFF KOONS for a fraction of the price!