A four-storey painting of a penis that piqued the curiosity of New
Yorkers when it appeared on Christmas Eve was being painted over on
Wednesday – by order of the building’s landlord.
The painting, on an apartment building on Broome Street in the Lower East Side, was commissioned by a local street art foundation and made by a Swedish artist, Carolina Falkholt, as a companion to a similarly vast if more abstract vagina, further east on Pike Street. [The Guardian]
PS. With full-frontal honesty, I have to admit I tacked this onto the blog largely to give myself the opportunity to use a word I have always admired: "tallywacker." It just makes me smile.
Tallywacker takes me back to the Ozarks. The female equivalent was twitchet. I remember a paperback filled with the euphemisms of my youth. It's a fun read, though it does get repetitive as serious folklorists feel a need to be thorough to be sciency.
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"Pissing in the Snow" occupies a favored place on my bookshelf.
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