penny dreadful

don't even try to bring the dead kennedy's into this. that's an insult to their legacy.

p.s. dave chappelle would be appalled.

okay, i think i'm getting it: white kids posing as gangsters in their mom's house, smokin' dat diggity dank, tipping those hats to the side... you can't answer the basic question. why do you come to come to the city and write on poor people's stuff?

An open letter to white kids from the suburbs painting on the Ghetto. Someone please enlighten me: Where does your sense of entitlement come from to drive your cars to poor neighborhoods and write on peoples' property? Yes, I know you smoke blunts, spend 10 hours a day on 12oz, and talk a whole lot garbage(not to mention paint it), but seriously, you're white kids from the suburbs painting your corny ass names on the Ghetto and it matters to only you and a couple of corny ass friends. I must be missing something here. There must be some deeper message behind all of this because you can't possibly by as dumb as you all look. After all, you're white kids from the suburbs who have been given chances to do something with your lives, but you choose to go jack up poor peoples' shit. I want to hear some real answers. No threats, no 'golf claps', no, "that shit makes me want to paint more." please, enlighten the general populace here in cleveland. we're listening.

writing gave a voice to the voiceless. it was born out of the city and now has become the refuge of suburbanites trying desperately to earn street credibility in a day and age when none of this stuff really matters. do any of you read the newspaper? everyone has a voice on the internet. sort of. you guys wage your inane battles online and in the streets and embarrass yourselves and the city you write on in the process. but someone doesn't have a voice here: the people who are just trying to get by, living their lives and running businesses in the neighborhoods you drive your car(and it better not be your mom's) to write in. clevelad's the poorest city in the nation, remember? are any of you native clevelanders? i will not name any names, but i do know that some of you who are the most up are suburbanites. where the hell does your sense of entitlement come from? do you have any idea what what people in this city have to go through on a daily basis just to survive? do you know anything about the history of the neighborhoods you paint in? people have lived their whole lives in places you know nothing about. people who have lived through riots in hough and in glenville and stayed in the city--UNLIKE YOUR PARENTS! people who could care less about seeing your wack ass tags on the side of their corner stores, houses, or churches. in one fell swoop, you can cost a business hundreds of dollars in damage, but you'll sit at home puffin' a blunt and talking smack on the internet thinking you're the shilznit for realznit. there are no simple answers. if you take any population, half of it will be composed of dummies. unfortunately, cleveland's graf population breaks all the rules and is 100% dumb. so smoke up dem bluntz fo' real and check yo myspace pages you silly little crybabies. the rest of the world will keep on living, but you're irrelevance will leave you standing with an empty can of paint and nowhere to go but back to you mom's house in the suburbs. Sincerely, The City of Cleveland