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this is n awsome picture

yo this is from freaky shit

As I posted on the last page, "Fool's names..."

"Fool's names and fool's faces always show in public places."
My Mom raised us with this saying, explaining that graffiti was what ignorant people did, because that compensated for their inadequacies. That explanation made an impression on us. Others should have been raised with the same sensibilities...

Man, Mott, you sure have guts. I would never have made it halfway to the base! Teriffic shots of something most of us have never seen. Thanks.

If you look in photos before, it seemed as though there were numbers that marked what electric box things were connected to...I remember seeing "04" in several of your photos from Pennhurst

Ward A was the violent ward for the female patients, not the male patients. Just thought I'd let you know.

Are these houses for sale? Purchasing this one would make a nice addition to my collection. Very interested.

I didn't want to post this in case someone got offended (and if you take offense I apologize in advance), but speaking of song lyrics, all 3 of the following songs have "leave me alone I want to go home" or something similar in them (Big D and the Kids Table - "G.L.D.", Marty Robbins - "Devil Woman", and the Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"). I was actually humming "Devil Woman" under my breath when I saw this the first time.

As an FYI and as your friendly curbside consulting psychologist this particular message is not something I personally would be too worried about unless there was a lot more to go with it. Truthfully it sounds a lot more like someone signing their yearbook at the end of the school year, or someone writing on the wall of some place they aren't supposed to be.

With any interpretation of notes, messages, and pictures, you have to have the context or you will make some pretty piss-poor diagnoses. Ironically, this is exactly the reason why so many people ended up locked in asylums in the past. All it took was the context of thinking that someone might be "disturbed" and then the presence of any note, message, or picture would be reinterpreted as a sign of sickness. That was the entire message of the Rosenhan experiment someone mentioned in another posting - that as soon as you are told that someone is mentally ill you start looking at everything in that context and omitting anything that smacks of mental health. If you know this note is on the wall of a secure facility it becomes a sign of mental illness. If you see this in someone's high school yearbook it doesn't look that "sick" at all.

However, I admit that it's always more fun for people to think they are eavesdropping on the ravings of disturbed minds - until they have to be in the same room with them. ;-)

It appears to be an old cork board for posting memo's upon.
Mr.Motts, am I correct?

Is'nt There Enough Subways And Park Walls For These So Called "Artists" To Create Without Decimating A Room That Had A Function And Lots Of Things Happen In It? It's Such A Shame That This Thing Happens It Really Is

A Very Powerful Picture And A Very Emoitional Poem Very Good Find

Mnementh, we seem to be on the same page here.. send me an e mail if get a chance.
thanks

Ohhhh, ok, that explains it then, that is one of the very few buildings i haven't been in ---- YET lol

Ed, Yes, I'm sorry, I probably should have been more clear on my prior statement, there were 2 different stickers, one was white, and the other was yellow, they both had the name of the facility on them and a number. If I remember correctly, the Yellow stickers were for items that ran on batteries or electricity and the white stickers were for all other items. Its been a while so I'm not positive about the color coding. Everything in every building had to be inventoried and the sticker showed that it had already been logged and inspected. I had a hand held calculator that I bought myself, but because it was in that hospital, it needed a sticker on it.... go figure