Hip Harold Is Lackadaisical

This was another find from First Fridays. Vaguely around his beloved dumpster, this was found scrawled on a building.

I don't even know what to say. Seriously. It's just kinda sad. I mean, just basic black lettering on some building that nobody probably even uses. Sometimes you'll be looking around and you'll see some really cool mural that someone did and put time into, or you'll see a stencil of some muppet character with the occasional "witty and mismatched" phrase (like a stencil of Oscar the Grouch saying "Women ain't nothin' but bitches and hos" or the like), and then there's Hip Harold.

He doesn't care. It's all about quantity over quality with this guy. He's just trying to tag himself into a reality show on MTV. He's the Wal-Mart of graffiti.

Seen on the side of a building on East 18th.

Hip Harold Still Likes Garbage

Imagine my surprise as I was perusing First Fridays when I came across this little gem. Once again, Hip Harold strikes a refuse bin. This seems to be a common theme with him. Perhaps he has low self-esteem, and sees himself as worthy of nothing greater than a trash bin? Or perhaps he feels that while other people are drawing angelic creatures and declaring themselves "CEOs" (of what I do not know, and more on this later) he feels crowded so he stakes out the trash bins. We can only speculate.

Oh, and I discovered that I hadn't been posting my pics as big as I could have been, so enjoy!

Seen on a dumpster at East 18th.

Hip Harold Loves Garbage

This was seen on a dumpster in front of an apartment building in Westport. It has a douchebag landlord that would be more willing to let a tenant out of a lease than fix the locks on the doors that was promised on move in. Also, a little bird told me that the tenants split the heat bill whether or not one person wants it hot or not thanks to one central unit.

Speaking of douchebags, many people in KC apparently think our friend Harold is one, at least according to this forum. And who can blame them? It's very rude to proclaim yourself hip, and even ruder to cost business owners money in order to tell this fact on the mountain. This is the only tag I've seen with the full "Hip Harold", but apparently he's all over downtown like homeless bums. Who knows, perhaps this "Hip Harold" will find his Javert, Lt. Gerard, or Batman?

Seen on West 36th Street.

Have You Seen This Angel?

There's something dangerous going on in Kansas City... it's called the Paseo.

But there's something weird going on in Westport. Stranger even than what was going on at the Circle K in San Dimas in the late '80s.

Graffiti is nothing new to cities. At least from what I can tell from the movies and that one video game by that one clothing designer. But we in Westport have some bizarre "tags" as the "kids" say going on. There's apparently a "hip" fellow by the name of Harold who is determined to inform all of us of that fact. Tom Cruise is apparently spreading his name around the city like he spreads his bullshit religion around idiots. And most ominously is the presence of some spotted-angelic creature in random areas, taunting us with false hope of salvation.

Everyone knows there's no salvation in Killa City. At least apart from the barbecue and rhyme-spittings of Tech N9ne.

I have posted here what will be the first of many firsthand reports of the scene. I encourage, you, my readers (all three of you), to send in your own encounters. And maybe, just maybe, we can get to the bottom of this and stop these gangmembers/pretentious KCAI students/black teenagers from 20-year-old hip-hop movies/gigantic whale/crab creatures.

Seen on the dumpster in the SunFresh parking lot near the Westport Coffee House.