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The gas tank didn't spring out of thin air
By adamg on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 9:20am
The Harvard Art Museums have put together an exhibit on Corita Kent, the artist who gave us the world's largest representation of Ho Chi Minh.
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This article needs a fact checker
"Many have glimpsed the real thing, but only at high speeds — the giant rainbow swash painted on the gas tank along Interstate 93 in Boston."
This does not describe the Southeast Expressway that I know.
Well, late at night, with the radio on ...
Oh, wait, that's 128, never mind.
Like the roadrunner, eh?
I see what you did there and I approve. Anyone who rails at you for being non-native is obviously an idiot.
with the Ice Cream Man...
Dorchester
Rainbow gas tank with worlds largest painting by Corita is in Dorchester - in the area known as Commercial Point.
Ha!
Very funny, Adam. Maybe link that Ho Chi Minh reference so non-locals will know what that's about.
Right wing nutjob conspiracy theory of its day
One of those large splashes of paint kind of looks like a profile of Ho Chi Minh to some people, and as proof they pointed out that Sister Corita was an anti- Vietnam War activist.
From the same crowd that brought you "Obama is a Kenyan communist who hates America" which of course is proved by his phony birth certificate, and the phony birth announcements in the Honolulu papers.
Blah blah blah.
Um ...
Even those of us who grew up on the left side of the spectrum can look at the blue stripe and see Uncle Ho's profile ...
Yeah but
Ho may be on the gas tank, but he isn't there because Sister Corita was making a hidden anti American statement against the Vietnam War, as the nutjobs would have us believe. Boston Gas and all there successors have had no problem with it.
And in other news, may I assume that everyone knows Ho was a waiter at the Parker House more than 100 years ago.
Malcom X worked there too
That's one of my favorite "if two historical figures had met" items which is tantalizingly close to have been able to happen.
Sorry.
"Ho may be on the gas tank, but he isn't there because Sister Corita was making a hidden anti American statement against the Vietnam War, as the nutjobs would have us believe. Boston Gas and all there successors have had no problem with it."
Uncle Ho is on there because she designed it that way. She snuck it past the gas company. They always denied the likeness for two reasons, the first being if they admitted it they would look a little silly, the second being that painting a structure that large is an expensive undertaking.
Please note that after the recent repaint, it was suggested that the silhouette looks a bit less like that murderous commie fuck.
From Wiki, "In North Vietnam during the 1950s, political opposition groups were suppressed; those publicly opposing the government were imprisoned in hard labor camps. Many middle-class, intellectual Northerners had been lured into speaking out against Ho's communist regime, and most of those who did were later imprisoned in gulags or executed; this became known as the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair. Some prisoners died of exhaustion, starvation, illness (often having received no medical attention), or assault by prison guards. Political scientist R. J. Rummel suggests a figure of 24,000 camp deaths during Ho's rule of North Vietnam between 1945 and 1956.[56]
So fuck you and your 'nutjob' bullshit.
Oh, as far as your bullshit statement, "And in other news, may I assume that everyone knows Ho was a waiter at the Parker House more than 100 years ago."
He made the claim he worked there, the Parker House has no record of it. So, I'm going to roll with, 'it didn't happen'.
Nutjob makes it up as he goes along.
Right on cue, the nutjob conspiracy idiots come out of the hole they are hiding in. The gas company!!!!!!! was part of the conspiracy!!!!!!!, you see, and repainting it would be expensive!!!!!! don't you know. (despite the fact that it has been repainted several times over the years). You forgot to add that when they took down one of the two gas tanks, they kept the one with the commie painting, because of course the gas company is a commie organization!!!!!
Wrong again DMC. You just pulled that out of your rear end. See the Parker House website listing Ho as an employee. http://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/boston-parker-house/property-details/hi....
Right wingers needn't worry about facts...
... because they alone know the "truth".
I'm probably more centrist
I'm probably more centrist than you. I just don't like reading insane bullshit.
(ED:) Hell, even Adam called him on it.
"I just don't like reading insane bullshit."
Rather brave of you to post without proofreading first.
Sometimes you can judge a person's intelligence...
...by the number of exclamation points he or she uses.
"Right on cue, the nutjob conspiracy idiots come out of the hole they are hiding in. The gas company!!!!!!! was part of the conspiracy!!!!!!!, you see, and repainting it would be expensive!!!!!! don't you know. (despite the fact that it has been repainted several times over the years). You forgot to add that when they took down one of the two gas tanks, they kept the one with the commie painting, because of course the gas company is a commie organization!!!!!"
I never implied a conspiracy. You just made that up. Um, they took down the old tank because, wait for it...it was old. Never said the gas company was communist. As a matter of fact, you can buy shares in it. That's not communism
Maybe you don't pay to have stuff painted. It can be very expensive.
"He made the claim he worked there, the Parker House has no record of it. So, I'm going to roll with, 'it didn't happen'.
"Wrong again DMC. You just pulled that out of your rear end. See the Parker House website listing Ho as an employee. http://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/boston-parker-house/property-details/hi...."
Sorry, genius. Here's one for ya..."and a postcard to Phan Chu Trinh in Paris where he mentioned working at the Parker House Hotel. Enquiries to the Parker House management revealed no records of his ever having worked there."
From: Duiker, William J. Ho Chi Minh: A Life. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
So, who you gonna believe, some ad copy writer who might have read something somewhere, or a guy that wrote a history of Dear Uncle Ho in the year 2000?
Moonbat.
Who are you going to believe?
Actually, if you read the article referring to Ho on the Parker House website, it was an excerpt from a book written by Susan Wilson the House Historian of the Parker House. Hardly "some copywriter".
Woman Sees Trump's Face In Her Tub Of Butter
Looks more like Trump than the Ho on the gas tank looks like Ho.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/butter-donald-trump-woman
You forgot to add that when
Actually, they took down the tank with the painting, and had the painting recreated on the tank they kept.
More proof!!!!
But DMC says that the Ho homage was never removed because it was too expensive. So not only did they remove it, but they painted it back on the other tank. This is further proof that the roots of this nefarious plot by the gas company to preserve this pro commie painting. If they really cared about expense, wouldn't this have been a perfect opportunity to get rid of the painting?
Et tu DMC?
My theory
is that they repainted the image on the tank they kept because the local traffic reporters, who use that 'art' as a landmark, demanded it.
Ho ho ho
We don't need no Santa Clause 'cause we got uncle Ho!