Good Graffiti and Bad Graffiti

The employees at the Royale are funny.

Yes they are. Many people don't get to see it. People too often come in and are in so rushed or distracted, they never slow down enough to fully appreciate it. And sometimes they can't see it at all for you can only catch it if you work here.

Sometimes we get promo schwag from the liquor, wine and beer companies. I try to keep it to a minimum. I do coasters and pretty much that is it. What happens to some of the, uh, stuff that comes through our place? We find homes for it. And after that I cannot be responsible for what happens to it. One of these homes we found for this "stuff" was for this promotional wine calendar below. The calendar shows rather sad yet sultry picture of a skinny woman with a glass of wine. We keep this calendar down in the basement. The basement is a hangout spot for employees. And for months we have been looking at this calendar. And it was just bound to happen.



As you can see it was tagged. Graffiti. There are two kinds in my opinion. Good graffiti and bad graffiti. I have pretty high standards personally. There is a lot of bad and really bad graffiti in our world.

And example of some dull and bad graf is the above, scrawled next to the woman's face:

"IS THAT A FRUITFLY IN MY F*#!NG"

Not so good. It seems almost unnecessary for the piece.


The other tag is more subtle. You almost don't even notice. Look closely at the bottom text on the calendar. First, notice the person applying the graffiti matched the printed handwriting font. The perpetrator of this graffiti wrote in:

"The Wine you drink in a poncho...
...Naked."

Perfect. Subtle, smart and good timing.

And well, I am taking the employees going to the boat races on Sunday. They are out at Creve Couer Lake. You can't see that at the Royale, but I would fully encourage you to check it out. I love the summer!!



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