The mural in question.
A West Roxbury resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about what he or she considers a completely "woke" graffiti mural that just went up on the side of the Joyce Kilmer School on Baker Street, in one of the largest spleen ventings we've seen on 311 in many a year:
This is a Disgusting [piece of vomit] ! I have lived here all my 58 years and my parents and Grandparents grew up in West Roxbury over 175 years ... We the the community was never informed. ... You have to go in front of a board of Select men and city council! This Is illegal . We don't want this !!! Get rid of it !! Our Relistate just Plummet Down ! We pay taxes to the city of Boston and our tax money is going to this painting! ... this is Illegal and it is Graffiti. This is West Roxbury Massachusetts. Suburban of Boston . Not Down town Boston . Graffiti .
This morning, though, another Killmer neighbor filed a 311 compliment - and the photo that tops this post:
No issue. Just wanted to compliment the artist and say that as an abutter to the school - we will enjoy looking at this art every day. Thank you Mayor Wu, for supporting artists!
The Kilmer hasn't seen this sort of brouhaha since the Great Robotic Goose controversy back in aught-five.
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Moderation challenges
By TGR
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 5:08pm
I believe there were concerns that any attempt at content moderation for comments could be seen as curtailing free expression. A private entity can moderate the speech on its site in accordance with terms of use an agreement; but a public entity will have a harder time taking down problematic posts.
How do the other cities and
By anon
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 5:18pm
How do the other cities and towns that use SeeClickFix manage it?
Nothing says breath life like
By Rwgfy
Sun, 08/04/2024 - 7:03pm
Nothing says breath life like kids breathing spray paint fumes.
Trumpie Grandma sounds all
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 4:41pm
hopped up on goofballs.
I am sure this complainant is
By MassMouse
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 5:22pm
I am sure this complainant is also wondering how Kamala “turned black†a few years ago…
Noting the multiple failures
By xyz
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 6:58pm
Noting the multiple failures of logic and language, and that the ticket was opened at 12:38 AM, I wonder if the complainer was egged on by his buddies Jim Beam and Jack Daniels.
Stopped by yesterday
By 02132
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 6:59pm
I stopped up at the Kilmer last night before 8, talked to the guy doing the painting. He's from Denver, and a few months ago he met with the students and the mural is the product of all the designs they put together. Wish I got his name, but he was up on the cherry picker still working. Really cool stuff.
Artist name
By Tabitha
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 8:22pm
His name is Thomas Evans, goes by detour @detour303 on instagram
It doesn’t look finished, or
By Frelmont
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 7:51pm
It doesn’t look finished, or maybe that’s an artistic aspect. At least we’re spending tax dollars on a public school and not a charter, or religious school. Remember, charter schools are a noecon scam to undermine the public’s trust in public institutions and their very “success†is two fold.
He’s here til next week, it’s
By Tabitha
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 8:23pm
He’s here til next week, it’s still in progress
Artist sez
By 02132
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 9:24pm
The artist expects it to be done Wednesday the 7th.
I think that I shall never see
By Ron Newman
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:37pm
A mural lovely as a tree
Of course!!! I can see it
By Rob
Sat, 08/03/2024 - 9:34pm
Of course!!! I can see it clearly now!!!
This mural is obviously being done by the same pernicious forces that did that infernal coronation portrait of King Charles a few months ago!
All that red! Coincidence? I think not!!!
Let's not forget that anyone
By cden4
Sun, 08/04/2024 - 4:08pm
Let's not forget that anyone can submit a ticket to 311. It can be a Boston resident or Russian troll. I'm beginning to realize a lot of the people online are not actually real people, but bots or people paid to stoke division.
After looking at this numerous times now
By brianjdamico
Mon, 08/05/2024 - 1:27pm
I just caught that they twice called it "Joyce Killer school" and never once wrote the name of the school they claimed to have attended correctly. I'd suggest auto-correct did that but then all of the other more glaring typos in there suggest otherwise.
School Mural
By Alias Smith
Mon, 08/05/2024 - 5:13pm
As the warden said " There is a failure to communicate" in the movie Cool Hand Luke. It would have been nice to communicate with the abutters of the school for some input. West Roxbury is getting slighted on many issues which needs to cease !!!
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