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"The Bus is Never Closed to Crazy"

For the last few months, someone has been putting cryptic messages on the old sign for the demolished Econolodge at Central and San Mateo. To me, they sound like musings overheard at the nearby Rapid Ride stop; or stealth marketing for some new project about to take shape on the empty property there. Has anyone else been reading them?

Tags: econolodge, sanmateoandcentral, signs, weirdness

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Comment by jeff on November 12, 2010 at 10:21am: you familiar with the work of jenny holzer?
this isn't hers but certainly inspired by her.

Comment by Barelas Babe on November 12, 2010 at 2:42pm: Awww, Jeff. For a second I thought you were about to announce a Jenny Holzer sighting in the Duke City.

Comment by Ben Moffett on November 13, 2010 at 8:24am: A pining, perhaps rejected lover?

Comment by cathyray on November 13, 2010 at 9:16am: a poet, no doubt

Comment by Alicia on November 16, 2010 at 2:30pm: There was an article today in the Albuquerque Journal about this. It turns out that the poetry is the collaboration of the slam poetry club at Highland High School and Friends of the Orphan Signs which was started by UNM professor Ellen Babcock. I am not an online subscriber to the Journal, otherwise I would have inserted a link to the article. If you are, check it out I think its awesome that she is giving students the opportunity to showcase their poetry through an unconventional venue.

Comment by andrew on November 16, 2010 at 2:34pm: Hooray! I hoped that by posting this here, someone who knew the story behind it (or who makes more time for reading the paper, ahem) would clue me in! Thanks, Alicia.

FotOS even have a website/blog: http://friendsoftheorphansigns.blogspot.com/