RPNeighbor noticed my Hell Hole Christmas Tree. But she couldn't keep it a secret, so I'm showing it to the public early. jeff o's comment got me thinking. As jeff o said, "Be postive craig, do positive things. Lead by example and others will follow."
Why not savor the bent, plastic tree in the garbage/planter can? If this is what we got, do the best with what we have. So I went out and got some fancy silver tinsel and fixed up the poor little bent, plastic tree.
I know there's 5 more plastic trees around the Morse Avenue EL that need holiday decorating by DevCorp North. DevCorp North gets paid in taxpayer money to do this. But this one's on the Hell Hole.
8 comments:
Craig,
Thanks for helping improve our neighborhood.
Did you do that without any help from Art Institute students?
>I know there's 5 more plastic trees
We should count the planters on Morse and Howard and divide the combined SSA budgets by the count, that would be a great post.
Oh, Tannenbaum! Oh, Tannenbaum!
Sorry I blew the surprise Craig.
How's this for your tree? ( I love it BTW)
Streetscaping?
$3.6 million (or so)
daily Litter pickup?
...provided by your very own SSA
Tree replacement on Morse?
...your tax dollars at work
Quaint decorated plastic tree?
Priceless!
It's even better than the CHarlie Brown x-mas tree (sniffle!) ;o)
Your wonderful idea inspired these holiday haiku:
Plastic winter tree
Tinsel in cold wind blowing
Urine puddle ice
Snowy time sparkle
On bendy old plastic tree
Chip bag trash on top
Morse avenue glow
Toast it with 40 ounce
Ho ho ho ho ho
Nico's Mom- where've you been? missed your perceptive commentary.
love the haiku- made me LOL
Nico and I loved Thomas' suggestion, therefore we have decided to sponser A BIG PRIZE for the 1st annual Rogers Park holiday plastic tree decorating contest.
Here are the rules:
Pick a plastic tree around the Morse avenue El or elsewhere on the street in RP. Organic trees are not allowed.
Decorate it with whatever you wish to express your vision of the holiday season. Creativity is encouraged, but please, don't use anything flammable, or that will decompose - remember, rats...
Tree must be decorated no later than 12/25 to be eligible.
Take a photo of it, and send with your name or alias, the title of the tree, and your contact information no later than 12/28/05 to:
rrouilly@earthlink.net
You may also include a brief "decorators statement" if desired.
The winner will have their choice of one of our FABULOUS GRAND PRIZES:
Dinner for two at the FABULOUS La Cazuela Mariscos
OR
Breakfast for four at the WORLD FAMOUS Heartland Cafe
OR
An ALLURING frangrance of your choice from Fragrance Island
OR
A FESTIVE half pint of your choice from Soo's Liquor
OR
A SOULWARMING homemade pecan pie, personally made by Nico's Mom (All butter crust)
YOUR CHOICE!!!!
If Craig is willing to host the photos of the decorated trees on this blog, we would be willing to let the winning tree be chosen by a vote of the blog posters. We hope he will agree. Otherwise, judging will be performed by Nico, Nico's mom and Walter Gibson esq. We wish to announce the winner by 1/31/2005, so Craig, please let us know...
Any future commisions obtained from the Tate Gallery will be split 50/50 between the tree decorator and Nico.
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