Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the groundbreaking installation/conceptual art of the Jim Pattison Group….as seen along the Arbutus Greenway in Vancouver.
Wow. Paging Dr. Einstein on the white courtesy phone.
Further along, I stood transfixed by this second masterpiece….
Profound. (I would amend this to “Erecting billboard banalities is very different from having no advertising to erect. Call now and make us an offer. Please. Help poor Jimmy with his erections.”)
Of course, Jimmy Pattison is the Chief Executive Surrealist who previously gave us the two timeless billboards below….
An ad within an ad! For water….for elephants! It’s so meta my brain hurts!
An ad within an ad for bananas… for monkeys! Give this man a Clio Award!
Moving on….what’s this along “Billionaires’ Row” in Kitsilano?
Just my luck, more installation art! The real kind!
Oh dear. Are the billionaires having a row?
Alrighty then! I guess we’re well past the twee, handmade “We’re in this together” signage from the first lockdown.
Nearby, on a bulletin board in Kitsilano…
Just remember, if you’re going to whimper….mask up! Aerosols, folks.
Seen along Broadway….What kind of maniac names their business “Inferior Florists”?
Hang on…never mind. (However, the signmakers ran out of room for the last three letters in ‘florists’. Always hire professionals.)
Almost done. When you’re waiting in yet another long lineup to get into a retail outlet, your mind can travel to strange places…for example, when I see this….
… I focus on this….
And I think, you go to THIS place when you need high quality chain from people you can trust. NOT to rip-off artists like “Chez Chain,” “Chain Haus,” “Chains R Us” or “Chain Male.” You go straight to HOUSE OF CHAIN.
Finally, a shot from Ladysmith some time back…
So much for temperance. Gimme that goddam fudge!
And that’s how today’s post ends. Not with a humourous bang…
For those who don't know T.S. Elliot's "The Hollow Men", published 1925: https://allpoetry.com/the-hollow-men, it's worth a read, right to the last lines about the way the world ends.