So Queens Crap had an alarmist update earlier this week about MS-13 graffiti on a construction site in Forest Hills. I didn’t really touch it because the people I hear going on and on about MS-13 tend to be apocalyptic loons like Michael “You Should Only Get AIDS and Die, You Pig” Savage, plus isn’t Central American gang graffiti on a construction site as likely to come from undocumented Central American day laborers as from the nearby high school? Anyway, I filed that away until my commute home today, when I saw this artistically tagged on an otherwise unmemorable poster at the 75th Avenue subway station:

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I hate graffiti, but I’ve always had to admit I kinda like the Forest Hills Sticker Kid. If you spend any time in the more densely populated parts of the Hills, you probably know who I mean: the guy who slaps down stickers all over town saying things like “BUSH = EVIL LIAR” and “BLAIR = bLIAR.” (The Flickr photo linked is somewhat atypical of the Sticker Kid’s body of work, as “BUSH” is not crossed out in a different color of marker.) I continue to hold the unfashionable belief that graffiti is nothing but selfish, landscape-marring vandalism, but political graffiti gets a bit of a pass from me because it’s political, and that’s awesome.

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