Truesday: Raised / Saluted and Such

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*The views expressed in Truesday are those of the author and do not represent Austinist as a whole. Thank heavens.* -The Editors

Due to extreme apathy toward Austin having a flag (and Benji adding further, in so many words, that perhaps even I myself did not actually care about this issue), I doodled together some rough sketches for the pleasure/disgrace of your eyeballs.

Exhibit A:

Perhaps it is an old school, Spy vs Spy type bomb, oddly flanked by a... banana.

Exhibit A(2):

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Or, flip that rag and perhaps it is instead a balloon, floating below a beveled crescent moon. Or maybe it’s still a banana. Being thrown at said balloon.

Does it represent the dot-com bomb? The housing bubble? Clowns and assholes trying to blow up women’s clinics? Just what exactly is this flag trying to say about Austin?!!

Nobody cares. It’s weird, so that’s cool.

Exhibit B:

Some Guy From New York: “Wait, is that the frog thing painted by that crazy dude my Contemporary Documentary Critique class had to analyze?”

Some Other Guy From New York: “Totally. Daniel something-or-other. Johanssen I’m pretty sure. Sounds Norwegian, I’m pretty sure. Nordic at least. And he stays with my roommate from college whenever he comes through Brooklyn on tour. He’s in a mime group or something.”

SGFNY: “Holy shit that’s brilliant. European? Mimes? Austin seems like such a cool place to chill and eat tacos, I’m going to get on the internet right now and buy ten luxury condos there.”

SOGFNY: “Mmmmm.... mime ‘tang.”

Exhibit C:

Crack livin'.

Exhibit D:

Inspired by the metaphoric/representative nature of Chicago’s flag, I tried my hand at some dope symbolism. The two straight lines represent Loop 360 (left line) and Loop 1 (right line), as these are the true backbone (economically speaking) of our developing city. The splotch of tear-tainted blood represents I35, intersected, quite curiously only once, by Loop 1.

The “J” is for Willie Nelson. To smoke.

Exhibit E: