Hello Everybody! The FFAOCMT has now covered the west coast — from Seattle all the way down to San Diego - and is moving on to… Ha Ha I’m not telling because it’s a MYSTERY! I’ve posted over a hundred signs so far and promise to put them up here more or less in order, but thought I’d share yesterday’s work because it was a particularly fun day. The more dramatic photos are at the end.
On the way back up from Orange County to LA I saw quite a few of the signs I’d put up four days earlier were still up!
People associate me with large signs on overpasses because they’re the most photogenic and memorable, but it’s these smaller signs, obliquely placed along the sides of the freeways that do the real work in terms of message spreading.
This is one of my favorite overpasses, but very difficult to get into. You have to climb a fence, bushwhack a bit, scramble up a hill, climb onto a balustrade and lower yourself in through a gap in the chain-link. Particularly annoying when you have to do it twice.
This section of the Santa Monica Fwy. is the only place I do anything like “Burma-Shave” signs as it has two closed-but-accessible-with-difficulty overpass and one open all about a mile apart. So President Kompromat was followed by this one:
I used to do these with the message “Osama Bin Forgotten” inside the elephant during the Bush years. It’s particularly devious because up until you get right up to it, it looks like someone simply put up a large GOP logo. A mile after this one comes this:
As I was leaving town I put up this one, which first flew over the 5 in San Clemente but was torn down. Fortunately they left all the pieces. If they’d been smart they would’ve taken one with them. Of course, if they’d been smart they wouldn’t have taken it down in the first place.
Okay, that’s it for now. Don’t mean to sound like a scold, but since I’m still the only Kossack doing this, let me know what I can do to inspire any of you to join me.