tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post5694889346338727298..comments2023-09-30T04:12:28.281-07:00Comments on Finding Fair Hope: The Pelican LegendMary Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-89486030065985214312008-04-15T10:00:00.000-07:002008-04-15T10:00:00.000-07:00It's a tough call, these fiberglass sculptures tha...It's a tough call, these fiberglass sculptures that appear to be all the rage. At least yours have some connection to the town. In Erie (PA) we are subjected to creepy-looking 6-foot frogs standing on 2 legs. What frogs have ot do with Erie, I will never know. <BR/><BR/>I just visited Fairhope for the first time last weekend, and I was entranced. What a lovely town, and such friendly people. Sure you have Pelicans, but you also have flowers where we have wind-blown trash, and you have trees where we have stumps because they dare drop limbs when it storms. Fairhope is a jewel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-45560834150506097852007-07-11T08:42:00.000-07:002007-07-11T08:42:00.000-07:00Those gawdy painted obliterations are the same typ...Those gawdy painted obliterations are the same type obliteration as the late growth in F'hope. No class, only forced focus blaring out at every body else. Childish in the form of "look at me". They remind me of painted totems which <BR/>provide similar reactions in their form of look at me "I am, and I need you to see me, beware for me". Painted pelicans are a symbol of superficialism, tattoos on the ass of F'hope doomed to fade soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-17137485180993160392007-07-07T14:49:00.000-07:002007-07-07T14:49:00.000-07:00Hmm...sounds like we've got an anti-Italian reader...Hmm...sounds like we've got an anti-Italian reader (or anti-Hoboke anyway). Anyone from the Italian anti-defamation league want to take this?Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-52124444111358627032007-07-07T14:29:00.000-07:002007-07-07T14:29:00.000-07:00The town of Catskill, NY, has done the same thing ...The town of Catskill, NY, has done the same thing with cats -- get it? CAT-skill??? -- and it is precious -- and I mean that in the worst possible sense. They look downright retarded and if I lived there I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to deface them all. <BR/><BR/>I think you'll be pretty safe from this stuff in Hoboken, where the animal "mascot" would probably be something like a rat or a severed horse's head. Which at least would be interesting painted up and displayed for the tourists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-71883778842744855802007-06-29T07:16:00.000-07:002007-06-29T07:16:00.000-07:00i do like them...wouldn't really classify them as ...i do like them...wouldn't really classify them as "art", but i've seen a lot worse...they're for the kids, and the tourists...something to make the town stand out, like the flower beds...kids and tourists can't really grasp the deeper artistic and philosophical sides of fairhope...but they can tell you they want to go back to visit super pelican!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-5430628337295578192007-06-29T05:51:00.000-07:002007-06-29T05:51:00.000-07:00Yeah, Fairhope's behind the curve with the pelican...Yeah, Fairhope's behind the curve with the pelicans...symbols are cropping up and being passed off as art in many many U.S. towns and cities. <BR/><BR/>As to being on the same wavelength, are you saying you <I>like</I> the painted pelicans?Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21825814.post-68875055894635495452007-06-29T05:20:00.000-07:002007-06-29T05:20:00.000-07:00we must be connected by some psychic thread...i wa...we must be connected by some psychic thread...i was just having a conversation yesterday about this kind of thing...see, here in jacksonville we have manatees...i mean, we have real ones too, but we used to have these huge manatee sculptures all over town until a couple years ago, when they were all auctioned off for charity...this subject came up because i was visiting some friends and they have one of these gentle giants in their backyard, guarding the pool...so we started talking about other citites and their mascots...they told me a similar thing was done in buffalo with, of course, buffaloes...and then i told them about fairhope and the pelicans (though i didn't know the entire story)...so we started speculating on other cities...we all agreed that giant crabs on every street corner in baltimore would be kind of creepy (though they do have an enormous one in the airport)<BR/><BR/>anyway, just thought i'd let you know we were on the same wavelength<BR/><BR/>and btw, lucy's favorite is the superman pelican!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com