Yesterday morning, in lieu of our usual Beer & Burritos meetup, A (not her real initial) and I carpooled down to Brookline, MA where we went to Zaftigs for brunch-time potato pancakes. Zaftigs boasts that it “ain’t your grandma’s deli,” and both our surroundings and fellow brunch-into-lunchers would have made for tasty spycam fare. Fortunately, although my new pencam has shipped but not yet arrived, Zaftig’s website includes a virtual tour.
Since eating too many potato pancakes can eventually turn two Svelte and Fabulous girlfriends into true Couch Potatoes, A and I eschewed dessert and took a walk instead, walking from Brookline’s Coolidge Corner down to Audubon Circle and back, crossing at some point the Brookline/Boston line and wandering through several alluringly posh neighborhoods. At Audubon Circle, the lampposts are appropriately bird-bedecked and, from the right angle, loom huge alongside a nearby church steeple.
In the “provide your own caption” category, somewhere along the way back to Coolidge Corner, A and I encountered the following stencilled graffito on a sidewalk near Boston University. Although A and I theorized several possible explanations for this odd inscription, I’ll leave it to your own not-quite-couch-potato imaginations to provide an appropriate tagline.
Jan 21, 2006 at 5:34 pm
First – no fair with the link to the Zaftig menu. Now I am hungry. Hope the latkes were good.
Second – no comment on the stencil. When I saw the little green guys with tails, my mind went right into the gutter.
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Jan 22, 2006 at 12:09 am
I’m looking at the red thing, thinking… bird? martini with an olive? person with big boots, raincoat and rainhat, leaning waaaay back? … and what’s with the white thing… a dam? a barrier? is it part of the agregate or painted on? … and yeah. sperm. or tadpoles. in which case maybe it is a bird?
The onions flee from the cocktail?
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Jan 22, 2006 at 7:51 am
Brian, the latkes were divine. And yes, my mind immediately went into the gutter, too…although the fact that they’re *green* means they *could* be tadpoles.
MB, I have no doubt the red thing’s a martini glass. If this were an inkblot test, that surety about martinis would be alarming. 🙂
The white thing isn’t part of the stencil: it’s either part of the concrete mix, or a smashed piece of chewing gum.
My first impression was “If you drink to many martinis, watch out for sperm.” But I’m sure there’s a less worldly interpretation…! 😉
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Jan 22, 2006 at 9:22 am
Oh yeah, I was going to say it reminded me of a certain tequila joke I happened upon recently.
I love Zaftig’s!
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Jan 22, 2006 at 11:02 am
HA! cocktails lead to sperm swimming through the diaphragm (white thingy), which is somewhat displaced (due to alcohol, probably)!
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Jan 22, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Leslee: Exactly! 😉
kenju, the only thing that’s “wrong with this picture” is the fact that the “boys” are swimming *away* from the martini glass…but I guess you can’t expect extreme accuracy from graffiti!
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