Andare, Partire, Tornare ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Party like a big painted donkey Chicago had their cows, and now DC has the Party Animals, which are artist-created Donkeys and Elephants cheerfully painted and scattered around the city. Sadly, some have been subjected to vandalism, but they're really a treat to see, and of course, the tourists adore them. Heck, whenever I walk outside our building and pass our blue flower-sprigged donkey, I feel happy. So far I have seen an elephant covered entirely in pennies, an elephant with postcards on him, a donkey that has grass painted on him up to his haunches, and a birdhouse sitting on his back, an elephant in groovy Indian-inspired whorls and one in red, white, and blue - but each stripe of each color is made up of something (like one of the white stripes is hands holding each other, and a blue stripe is sky and clouds drifting accross the elephant's haunches). There's even an elephant painted in a scene of Georgetown rowhouses. All very festive. Here's a link to an article about them. And here's a link to their locations and names - our little blue donkey is appropriately named "Azulito." And here is a fairly good picture of one of the elephants in progress - he's not my favorite, but he's an attractive little pachyderm. Oh, and here's a really, really cute one - an elephant done up as the periodic table of elephants..er...elements. He's in front of the American Chemical Society, no less. The Green Party actually sued the city because they weren't part of the project. Do they even have a mascot? Oh, apparently, they do - a sunflower. Sorry, Green Party dudes, but if these animals can help tourism get boosted, all your motions for the project to stop didn't have a prayer. In other news...well, there isn't much of it. But I did go to the library yesterday and get a bunch of the Quiller novels that somebody reccomended to me, plus a few others. Yay, more reading! 10:48 a.m. - 2002-06-21 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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