Public Art

The past two weeks have been a colossal bike commuting FAIL.  I can blame this fail primarily on being on-site at an out of town client in southern Minnesota in an area that wasn't densely populated. Let's just say it's been...agricultural. I'm back in the saddle this week for some in-office work and to take part in fall bike-walk week.  Perhaps the end of my late September slump will coincide with an end the Twins' struggles.

In celebration of my return to bike commuting this week, I'm offering up another quiz related to my normal commuting route which deals with a specific graffito at the I-94 underpass.  Here it is:

As you can tell from the picture, this isn't so much a "graffito" as it is an "area formerly known as a graffito," which has been recently painted over, presumably by some inexperienced city official who has not yet realized the magnitude of his folly.  In addition to the above column, it appears that the entire collection of the "Anarchist Underpass Art" series has been covered in a similar fashion.

In a time of significant budgetary constraints facing the municipality, our elected officials should have had the sense to tout these works of art as their own doing, which our progressive city surely would have embraced whole heartedly.  (I'm thinking a Walker Art Center East satellite location)  Savings would have been reaped in both the public art works and bored teenager graffiti clean-up budgets, but instead we're left with two tone support beams.  Just think of the pension overpayments that we could have funded with these savings!

All of this leads me to the one question multiple-choice fill-in-the blank quiz about the above pic:

Question:
Pick the item that best fills in the blank, which was previously painted on the support beam pictured above (my comments in parentheses):

There is no ___________________________

a) Santa Claus
(some truths are better learned late than never)

b) such thing as a free lunch
(Anarchists love macroeconomics)

c) business like goat business
(singing the praises of an agrarian economy)

d) ladder to climb
(sobering warning to greedy, cycling capitalists like myself)

Bonus Question:
This blog post contains an allusion to a movie quote, if you can spot it you get a bonus point.

Summary
Week 96 (Sept 20-24)
Mon - Friday: Car
Week 97 (Sept 27-Oct 1)
Mon - Friday: Car

A lot of carpooling was mixed in there.