Okay, so I’m out bombing around the net like I’m likely to do on a Tuesday night looking for something about a particular primary religious figure being a zombie, and I come across this photo
on a page with a bunch of other things scrolling and then my brain says “what’s STRETRODRUNIAL?” and so I Google some of the words (and here they are so Google robots will find ME wondering about THAT):
WINTER
8,685,000,000 GALAXIES
NBC:GRUTROGRONIAL BROADCASTS
STRETRODRUNIAL
ENDEAVORS DEVOTIONS
PHRITROCINIAL
, and find another photo of what appears to be the same dude, somewhere nearby
so then I start removing and/or correcting the words from the sign, and find this different-but-same sign
Yeah, that’s what it said:
Carlfield
8,645,000 Galaxies
CNN: Shogrofrenical Broadcasts
Lygrogrenial
Gestures Captions
Citrostrenikal
The caption/title on the last one says Frank Chu, so maybe this is who does these weird signs, but my brain is just whining at me “What *IS* is though? What’s happening? Is this a thing? Is a thing happening? Tell me!”
Do you figure if I threaten to send my brain to bed without any supper, it’ll stop whining?
So when you wonder what I’m doing at 11:30 at night, when I should really be sleeping, or making lunches for tomorrow or something?
This is it.
I’ll probably search a little more tonight, but hey, if anyone can point me in the right direction, by all means, let ‘er rip.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Of course, if you hit Wikipedia and look up Frank Chu, you get all the skinny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu
Sounds like he’s just a slightly more sign-crafty unhinged person.
“Frank Chu (born 24 March 1960) is one of San Francisco’s best-known eccentrics. His street protests against US Presidents, corporations, and a distinctive concept he calls the ’12 Galaxies’ have been held in San Francisco and nearby locales since at least 1995.
Chu lives in Oakland, California and commutes daily to San Francisco where he can find the largest audience of passers-by and television news crews to share his thoughts with. He supports himself through a combination of state aid, sign sponsorships, and small donations from his supporters.”
{And just for synchronicity’s sake, the reCaptcha text I need to type to complete this comment is “them Knight.”}
August 28th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Is this guy crazy? Or a brilliant artist? Or a jokester? Or a combination of all three?
December 4th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Crackle.com has a little diddy about chu on an american dreamers episode. If you want to see him live. I think its the 12 galaxies episode. Hope this helps. By the way Im ashamed of what I did for a klondike bar, just had to get that off my chest.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
…and here’s the link Jer is talking about.