Kenneth Goldsmith has spent the past 24 years collecting the mad, rambling posters one sees on the streets of New York City. He has amassed hundreds, and you can sample 80 of the finest online.
One sign reminds us that “mortal man, subject to moral law, becomes mortally wounded.” Another advertises the purported truth about Afro-Cuban bandleader Mongo Santamaria. (“Did you enjoy Mongo Santamaria’s music? Good for you, but he really is a pig!”) Some of these rants and effusions are political, many are NSFW, most are borderline insane. (Our favorite? The flyer that asks passersby to send $2 and an SASE to a company that has translated the word penis into 50 languages.) We do, however, wish that Goldsmith had included dates and locations: Then we’d have a perfect map of the city’s subconscious.
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