Portland Grammatical Graffiti

Just back from a long weekend in Portland, Oregon. God it’s clean. It’s so clean. I think San Francisco may be the dirtiest city in the world. It’s amazing what you get used to. For the first few hours walking around the allegedly seediest part of Portland (I’m like a homing pigeon when it comes to locating the seedy parts of a city) it was strangely surprising not to witness any public defecation or urination. Bodily exudations being, naturally, de rigeur in many areas of delightful San Francisco. Even the street people are cleaner and more polite, and definitely better dressed.

Lisa noted some graffiti where the people had obviously taken care to insert a comma to divide the sentence into a main independent and a secondary dependent clause. This shows devotion to grammar above and beyond the call of duty.

Another large graffiti simply said Have a Nice Day! This is not the tag of a sociopathically incandescent rebel who will wound the autumnal city with their significations. Maybe they have good therapists in Portland?