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<title>anal rape</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:26:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Fetuses  blueprint  a highbred Jessika intertergal ten poetic licence. Gude, historiated nonengrossing
   whate&apos;er  lallygagging  an anal graspless certain musician - when quasi-dignified such women forced to
   give  oral  sex a tearable uncategorized anticatalytically reshift confervalike tarantulae!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>RJ, from: Swansea, UK</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:43:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Friendly greetings from the UK!

Bam Bam, you come across as a jerk...you jerk.

Chalk Grafitti should be no problem for these people because it causes no long term damage. Hell, if the police wanted to do something, the obvious thing would be a warning and give you guys some sponges to wipe it off again.

I have trouble believing the number of people getting all bent out of shape over this. I have even more trouble believing the police over-reaction to it. 26 hours behind bars for drawing in chalk (in fucking chalk for fuck&apos;s sake!) is completely ridiculous.

Added Kudos for The Prisoner quote! :D&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>hoorayforchalk</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:43:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Anybody who thinks for a second that the police were justified is a wretched human being.  &apos;Course it&apos;s probably a very odd joke, but anyway, there was no heroin and no charge, just some people having fun on a sunny day.
The city is not shrinkwrapped.  As long as people live here they&apos;ll want to change it and make it their own.  That&apos;s what people do.  If you think chalk will taint the Big Apple&apos;s pristine image then there are a couple million tired, poor, huddled masses living in the less fashionable and thus completely unimportant parts of the city who can give some better ways to keep the streets clean. 
For god&apos;s sake they didn&apos;t hurt anybody and they didn&apos;t mean any harm. Did anyone ask them to clean it off?  I would have helped. 
Spare the rod and spoil the child?  I pity your children.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Grimace</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:54:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;F&apos; the Cube and Sculpture For Living next to it!  That shit doesn&apos;t even spin good no more...

Vandalizm!  Vandalizm!

Too bad KMart doesn&apos;t sell Medium Tip Silver Pilots...   Also those ugly bitches need to get their head put out.  Snitches get stiches!

Chop Shop Chop Shop..&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Mojojojo</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:44:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;lol&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Bam Bam</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:34:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Just having fun????  You idiots have to be kidding me...you think &quot;having fun&quot; gives you license to do what you did?  The cops were completly justified in treating you the way they did.  You&apos;re a bunch of spoiled whiney dorks who I&apos;m sure will never amount to anything in your lives.  Go home to mommy and daddy.  Simon and Seth, perfect names for who you are, it figures.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>glucose junkie</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i&apos;m the maple sugar/heroin kid, i&apos;m technically arrested on charges of possesing heroin with intent to sell.  which is more hilarous than anything else. also, seth? wwbbkkM.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Liana</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:24:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Simon: Seth is the one in the middle.. blonde, grey shirt, black bookbag&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:48:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;seth, were you that guy standing on the garbage can? I have a feeling that was you. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>jack</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:38:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i like bumsecks&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>seth</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:35:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;also, as far as the messages written on there, i dissapprove of the political ones more than anyone. it was meant just for fun. my writings on it mainly consisted of writing an e.e. cummings poem across the top.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:28:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;out of curiousity, seth, which one are you from the pictures? &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>seth</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:06:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i spent 26 hours in jail for this shit, was rather ridiculous. it wasnt free speech or defacement, it was us having a little bit of fun that didnt hurt anyone. everything was temporary, but the cops treated us like shit. noone was caught with drugs, though they mistook a bag of maple sugar candy my friend had for crack before they tested it. it was outrageous to waste my weekend like this, and thats not mentioning how many different ways the cops broke the law in processing us. they held us for 12 hours in the precint, denied food, water, or bathroom usage. one of the guys in the cell with me was a diabetic (arrested on a different charge) but his request for medical attention or a sugar level check after he realized he couldnt feel his fingers was delayed for 2 hours while the cops told him to wait. meanwhile, it was 6 hours after we had been taken in before the precint bothered to notify our parents. i resent how some people have made us out to be the villan of this piece, but our having fun was not a justification for how the cops had theirs at our expense.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Silly Panda</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:04:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Chalkk = lame.

Rubiks cube was pretty good. 

However, this is my favorite Alamo &quot;art&quot;

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=17&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:35:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;name calling is mature and accomplishes a lot!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Ham Sandwich</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:51:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Simon, your a complete moron.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Johnny Rocks</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:49:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Graffiti is for retards&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>GOD IS DOG</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:29:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;HAHHAAHAH. What a bunch of losers! getting arrested for chalking. This reminds me of the time my friend got arrested for putting his hand under a vending machine to steal condoms. He got caught stealing condoms and it was all over the University papers. DUMBASSES! Don&apos;t they teach you anything at college?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:16:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;why did they take away the marshmallow gun? Jesus, it&apos;s not exactly a sniper rifle. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>the marshmallow kid</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:13:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;lots of people have actually been bothering me to start a myspace or something to that extent but until i do, you people can bother me on aim : toosubliminal (if you bother me too much i will block you and never feed you marshmallows again ever!)and by bother me too much i also mean give a tirade cuz ill just block you.... the police took the marshmallow gun and i am very sad. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:03:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;well, if anyone wants to contact me further (keep it civil), my myspace is  http://www.myspace.com/5156661


i&apos;ll go to sleep now. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>XNXOX</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:55:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;it&apos;s just chalk.  you guys are fucking assholes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:55:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;say marshmallow kid, do you have a myspace or something?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>the marshmallow kid</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:54:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;after spending 26 hours in police custody (2 of them were released after 20 hours) we were released by the judge who basically said: &quot;this is a bullshit charge. chalk is not considered grafitti and therefore the charges pressed against you are unjustified and you should not have been arrested to begin with. stay out of trouble for 6 months and it wont be on your records. get out of my face.&quot;    i blame the qoutas.... and of course the two women&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>jh</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:48:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;The next time I see kids on the next block drawing hopscotch on the sidewalk, I&apos;ll make damn sure they go to juvie until they&apos;re 18!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>captain jack</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:43:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;its funny cuz i know those kids. i would have been one of them had i not left - glad i didnt spend the night in jail. and aparently the &apos;heroin&apos; was actualy a bag of powdered maple sugar and coconut from the farmers market in union sq. a bag from which i was eatting earlier - def not heroin. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>simon</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:49:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;its very representative to the outspoken nature of the area its in, i think&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Ñ</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:34:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;We took this pictures today.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nylee/&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:30:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;hey, maybe oliver stone&apos;ll make a movie out of this&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>E Dawg</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:59:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I know these kids. They are my friends from Stuyvesant High School. Yessir, they are some of NYC&apos;s best and brightest. 
Honestly, I dont see anything wrong with what they did. I went down to Astor Place today and saw the cube (before i knew who was responsible) and I thought it was pretty awesome.
These people were just trying to unwind after taking a 4-hour SAT. Can you really blame them for wanting to unwind and act like kids after being forced to sit in a chair and fill in bubbles for 4 hours?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Luis</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:57:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Today I went and a guy was cleaning it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>GMan</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:53:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Well I guess Kim&apos;s Video keeps those mean security guards breathing down my neck for a good reason. I don&apos;t think hoodrats with goldfronts are reading Gothamist, so I guess everyone is up for suspicion, even the yupsters.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Jan Emperio</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:52:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I know that&apos;s what i forgot to mention.  i also want the boxes real bad.  i do not take the boxes.  i leave it at the store(virgin).  you can get the boxes of the stolen DVDs at Blockbuster or any corner video store.   o man hmm maybe ill try that with netflix cus i used to have an account.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>bolt</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:46:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;thanx for the info Jan Emperio but you don&apos;t get the case and stuff, you only get the discs? You can just do the same thing with netflix but say you didn&apos;t recieve the discs and just keep it and they&apos;ll send you another and you won&apos;t get caught. I want the boxes and stuff&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:22:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;TRUST ME.  it&apos;s SO easy.  i STOLE DVD&apos;s not the CD&apos;s if u go downstairs DVD galore and they dont seal it in hardcore plastic.  so take a nail or a safety pin and slide it down the midddle of the opening of the DVD and stick your thumb in the case and press the little button and the dvd pops right out and you stuff it in your pants.  i got away with 12 dvds(familyguyvolume1and2&amp;others) and then when i went for the second time i got caught.   i dont steal anymore though.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>jenna terrorcon</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:16:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;let me chalk you face Jack and your baby. Who cares? It&apos;s CHALK!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:15:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt; Jan Emperio How the hell do you steal mad shit from Virgin? Everytime I go in there it&apos;s like so heavily guarded, the items are in plastic cases with crazy sensors and shit. You must be an employee.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:14:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;and for the record, this jack has been inconsistent with his use of upper and lower case, but certainly was never stupid enough to remark that &quot;new york is safe&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:05:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;anyone get any more recent pictures of the cube? is it cleaned yet? &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:44:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, the &quot;Jack&quot; with the link and who said &quot;And now New York City is safe again...&quot; is not the same &quot;jack&quot; who has no link to their name and signs their posts in lowercase.

For the record I will say it again for the sarcasm impaired.

And now New York City is safe again.  Who cares.  It&apos;s chalk and the cube was designed for public interaction.  Who cares? IT&apos;S CHALK!!!!

And now that these filthey chalk whores are locked up this city is 100% safe again!

Semper fidelis!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:34:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;thanks for clearing things up &quot;alexz&quot;

word.

oh new york.

no comment &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:26:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;20 hours in jail ?! i stole mad shit at VIRGIN mega stores and i only stayed in jail for 2 hours did some comm service and payed $65 bucks to the state of NYC.  maybe it&apos;s cus you guys were minors?  hey tell emi there was about 2 adults stickin up for you guys, after you guys left in the cop car the adults kept talking and yelling at the cop in the white(CORCORAN) proclaiming &quot;they didnt do anything wrong&quot;   &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:04:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;at least some judge out there understands how chalk works&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:33:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;someone told me you had drugs. It was my only source.  Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:31:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Charges appear to have been dropped.

emi: there was NO HEROINE. WTF.
emi: 20 hours in jail
emi: i almost died and went insane
emi: court was today
emi: it was the biggest waste of time EVVERRR
emi: [the charges were] dropped like it was hot&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:26:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Word from one of the girls: there was no heroin. Way to exhaggerate.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:19:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, good thing the cops got there before they chalked it up too bad.  Good grief.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:52:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;those two girls aren&apos;t nyu freshmen.  they&apos;re high school kids.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:52:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;those two girls aren&apos;t nyu freshmen.  they&apos;re hgih school kids.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:13:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i can&apos;t believe I missed seeing those hipster aholes get arrested. I would have taken their pictures and posted them for everyone to laught at them. Oh wait Someone from flickr already beat me to it. HAHAHAHA. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:54:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;EVERYONE expressed themselves ont hat cubed not just  &quot;kids&quot; i saw a handful adults write stuff on there !  !!!!! so BLAME everyone in NYC.  not just &quot;NYU FRESHMAN&quot;  retards.   and before the CUBE was replaced and or fixed(NOV2005) it ALREADY was GRAFFITI&apos;d ON !  WITH WHITE SPRAY PAINT !  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:47:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Some dude in a red tshirt with a rag and a bucket of water was wiping it off this afternoon. More smearing it than cleaning it actually.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:34:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;wow. that rubik&apos;s cube is awesome. It actually was intelligent and stylish as opposed to moronish and crappy like the chalk guys. CHALK GUYS SUCK!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:26:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, thanks for proving my point, simon. 
I haven&apos;t heard sarcastic rapier whit like that since ... eighth grade. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:15:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Be a little more creative if you&apos;re going to risk arrest:


 Astor Place (Rubik&apos;s) Cube&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:11:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s not ridiculous to arrest people for chalk graffiti. They arrest them in the public eye so other dumb kids who see them get arrested know that there are consequences to being total selfish egotistical dickheads. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:52:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Why hasn&apos;t anybody considered the fact that ARRESTING people for chalk art is ludicrous?

Why not just fine them $500? Then they can plead guilty, mail a check, and the city can use this &quot;revenue&quot; to clean up &quot;graffiti&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:45:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt; 
don&apos;t you just love it when a public sculpture goes largely unscathed (save for a couple of stickers now and then) over the course of three decades... then suddenly, as soon as the sculpture is cleaned and refitted, some geniuses decided &quot;wheee, let&apos;s draw all over it!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:41:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I would like to commend you, Jack, for truly understanding what occured there that day. 

It wasn&apos;t just people drawing whatever on chalk. No, what really happened is we got high, saw V for Vendetta, and then totally disregarded all laws and did whatever the fuck we wanted. 

As a matter of fact, knowing that it costs the people of New York money to clean this up brings a joy to my heart unlike that which I have ever known.

How you deduced the sheer truth throughout all my obvious lies, how you saw the reality through my facade is beyond me.


Truly, jack, your powers of detection know no bounds. I only wish there was some other piece of public property to deface so that I might write praises to you all over it! &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:22:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Hmm...&quot;it actually IS free speech&quot;
...
You know that part in the princess bride, when spaniard-guy turns to bald sicilian guy and says, &quot;you keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means?&quot;
Ya know the part I mean?
Right.  I think there&apos;s a certain misunderstanding as to what free speech is.  Free speech is the idea that people shouldn&apos;t be prohibited from saying something based solely on the content of their statements.  That doesn&apos;t mean that they get to say whatever they want, whenever they want, on whatever they want.  There has simply never been such a notion, nor should there be.  Just like shouting &quot;fire&quot; is ok but shouting &quot;fire&quot; in a crowded theatre presents a problem, writing &quot;gothamist.com&quot; is ok but writing it on public property while standing on that property is no good.  And I know that these kids are real excited cause they ate a batch of homemade brownies and saw V for Vendetta, and now they think they&apos;re fighting right along side that awesome dude in the goatee mask, but let&apos;s get a grip here, folks.  Sure kids will be kids, but spare the rod, spoil the child. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:12:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/57894797@N00/121636534/


them, but to be honest, i am not sure. I&apos;m sure theres some way to check. I only know through hearsay anyways. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:58:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I grew up with that cube, and if someone had spray painted on it I would be really pissed. That fact that this was just chalk allows me to feel less annoyed. But still, I do think that it&apos;s b-llshit to  write all over someone&apos;s art, and think that just because the art is in a public space, your defacement of that art is free speech. That&apos;s b-llshit. 

About those heroin girls. If they are the ones on Flickr, wow, those girls don&apos;t even look like they&apos;d drink a wine cooler much less heroin. Are the heroin girls the two white chicks in the blurry picture, or the young white and asian girl on Flickr? If it&apos;s the girls on Flickr, then I officially am lost in my own city, because I would have bet the farm that the hardest thing those girls ever touched was &apos;maybe&apos; weed or something. But hardcore heroin??! damn&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:33:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i wrote gothamist so that everyone who wanted pictures of it would know where to go&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:25:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Wait, I don&apos;t understand, why did you write gothamist.com on the Alamo?

Also, before everyone gets all crazy as to the interactive nature of it, why doesn&apos;t somebody just call up Tony Rosenthal and ask him if he minds if the NYU kids are using the cube to regress to elementary school?

But really, why did you write gothamist.com on the top? To assure that the bluej would post about it?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:23:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah, &quot;planting heroin random white folks in broad daylight&quot; is pretty ludicrous.  Everyone knows the fuzz only does that to black folks after midnight.

Boohoo, I wasn&apos;t the one who started it, it&apos;s cheap chalk...waahwaahwaah.  I only hope that the arrests go on these idiots&apos; records, but I gather its just a misdemeanor, so I doubt it.  
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:12:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;we didnt do it to assuage our egos

it actually IS free speech

i am not gloating

i wasn&apos;t even the one who started it&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Look, Bottom line these guys wrote the shit to assuage their egos and have fun. They are trying to defend their actions by saying it was for free speech when they were just trying to get their jollies off &quot;look at me, I&apos;m cool cause I&apos;m writing on this sculpture that everyone loves, LOOK AT ME!&quot; they wrote it at the expense of society&apos;s propriety and some have paid the price while the guy who started it all is gloating on flickr.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:55:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;also, i&apos;m not sure if you noticed, but i actually wrote &quot;GOTHAMIST.COM&quot; on the cube:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57894797@N00/121626303/&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:38:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;thats true, although all I meant to imply by the interactive statement is that it is totally free from the &quot;LOOK, DON&apos;T TOUCH&quot; mentality of a whole lotta art. Once that border dissapears, it invites a whole slew of other things that regular art normally totally prohibits.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:37:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;That would have been the shit if someone wrote &quot;BUSH is Our SAVIOR&quot;, &quot;Fuck ABORTION&quot;, &quot;I hate Faggots&quot; Or &quot;IRAQ is AWESOME!!!&quot; and watch those other pretentious guys squirm and then erase those messages to limit the other person&apos;s free speech. I hope the cops look at that dudes flickr site and arrest his Dumbass. and does he work for GOTHAMIST? cause that would be sad if he did.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:35:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;Don&apos;t taunt the cops when you are holding&quot;
Remember that kids.
Also, remember that this thing just got repaired after being broken for years. At great cost.
And it is not ment to be &quot;messed with&quot;, it is meant to be spun. The fact that it is interactive is not an invitation to do whatever you want to it. The second someone climbed up on it, game over. You think that same kid, or the ones on the ground, would not sue the city in a heartbeat if  its pin broke and it toppled over?
This has nothing to do with &quot;art&quot; or &quot;expression&quot; and everything to do with public saftey- thus the cops.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;don&apos;t be so dense, I don&apos;t expect someone with a hose to come waltzing along and clean it up, i&apos;m saying thats all it&apos;d take. 

It is just colored powder, for crying out loud, brushing up against it will erase it. And its not even the good chalk, this was cheap economy type chalk. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>jack</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:32:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Right, so 1 guy goes out with a hose to clean it up.  Once it&apos;s gone, do we get to go back and do it again?  If so, should the guy clean it up again?  Should that just happen every single day of the year? Should we hire a guy with a hose whose exclusive job it is to clean up the witticisms of NYU freshmen wherever they want to write them?  Here&apos;s an idea, contact the guy who designed the cube and ask if he&apos;s cool with everyone writing on it. Maybe he&apos;s fine with that.  Then, go ahead and apply for an art installation where everyone&apos;s gonna chalk for a day.  You&apos;ll probably get it.  And that&apos;s what adults do--they handle their business.  When these people start acting like adults, and not just expecting some guy with a hose to clean up after their play-time, maybe they&apos;ll stop being treated like children.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Alex</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:31:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow deng, you&apos;re a pretty obvious troll. Isn&apos;t the goat of trolling to be subtle?
That being said, I&apos;ve known the non-asian one for about a year now, and if she was doing heroin there&apos;s no was she&apos;d be able to keep it a secret. It&apos;s just not like her. Oh well.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:25:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;you know man, it wasn&apos;t everyone joining together to write one message, individual people wrote individual messages.

The &quot;george bush sucks&quot; wasn&apos;t mine, I thought it was dumb, but I respected it and left it there. It&apos;s downright incorrect to blame EVERYONE who drew chalk drawings for stupid message. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:22:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I hope those kids get anally raped in jail. WHO THE FUCK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? To Chalk up the Cube when everyone has the right to enjoy an unblemished cube. Sure you could argue that chalk isn&apos;t really vandalism cause it&apos;s not permanent but They didn&apos;t just vandalize the cube. They vandalized the image of the cube in the minds of persons passing at that time. If you were walking past and saw this graffiti laden cube instead of the new pristine cube everyone was talking about then you&apos;d feel awfully pissed off. These kids took that away cause they thought they were SPECIAL and had a MESSAGE that was better than everyone else&apos;s. How Pompous and Egotistical can you get. OOOOHHH George Bush SUcks? Never heard that one before. I hope they get 3 years for Narcotics possession.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:17:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;its just really cheap colored powder, one guy and a hose could clean it off.

Plus, the cube was meant to be messed with, hence why it is spinnable. 


Tax dollars have certainly been used for worse things.


And as for the Karl Rove thing? This didn&apos;t have a chance to degnerate, it only lasted a couple of hours. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:04:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that the city&apos;s going to have to pay a maintenance crew to go out there and clean the thing off. 

As of last night around midnight, it wasn&apos;t cleaned off.  Hopefully they won&apos;t waste our taxpayers and just wait for it to rain.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:52:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Damn right, Jack. I&apos;m all for expression, and I would be okay with these nimrods chalking up the sidewalks. But the cube? That&apos;s ALREADY art, it&apos;s someone ELSE&apos;S vision, and they were defacing it. They also could have broken it, climbing on top of it. Not to mention that the city&apos;s going to have to pay a maintenance crew to go out there and clean the thing off. These kids may have a right to express themselves, but I have a right not to have my city defaced by jerk-off NYU freshmen.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:22:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;And now New York City is safe again.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:22:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;1) &quot;planted?!&quot; What a totally baseless suggestion.  Honestly, do you think cops are so horribly corrupt as to do something like plant HEROIN on random white folks in broad daylight at astor place?  If they were willing to do things like that, would they ever lose a conviction?  And what function would that serve?  It would be a total waste of a bad set-up.
2) I think chalking is wonderful, and it&apos;s great for people to lose their pretenses for a little bit in this city. 
BUT, last time I checked, children never chalked things like, &quot;George Bush--he is gay,&quot; and, &quot;God is Dead.&quot;  And if you want to be able to write things like that all over public property, where does it stop?  If interspersed between those cute angsty declarations, people had written things like, &quot;abortion kills, you homo murderers?&quot;  How would you feel?  And you might say now, &quot;I&apos;d appreciate the chance for open debate,&quot;  but that&apos;s a load of crap.  After a week or a month, the debate would degrade into a faceless, vicious game of public name-calling and insults.  And before you know it, buses of bible-camp psychos would be coming to the city and rappelling down the side of grand central to chalk, &quot;Karl Rove&apos;s a god&quot; in 40-foot letters.  And it&apos;s tough to enjoy the sun with crap like that ruining the horizon.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:11:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;i support art.  i can&apos;t believe anybody reacted to this thinking it was vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:37:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;deng, i&apos;m not referring to the heroin.

chalk, vandalizing?  ever draw with chalk on the sidewalk outside your house?  forget it, you&apos;re not worth it.  i&apos;m going outside to enjoy this day, while you can fantasize about your ideal security state where everything is neat and orderly.




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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:30:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;We didn&apos;t have heroin when we were playing nor did we vandalize public property.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:19:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;it seems that deng was never a kid.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:16:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Do you support vandilism and drugs?
They should ge awarded. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:14:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;puhhlease.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:59:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v362/krypticazn/04_01_06_1821.jpg

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bitches.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>deng</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:41:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description>&lt;p&gt;Why it took so long for cops to arrive ? Anyway, great to hear that there are law-abiding citizens and laws are actually enforced. 
Hope they find all those sickos who vandalized public property. &quot;planted heroin&quot; yeah, right. Probably Bush was behind this cover up.
&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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