Tagged

Pictured above is a graffito tag captured by the lens of regular reader Mr Hand somewhere near El Cerritos on the 80. I captured a similar pair of tags on a dumpster behind Guitar Center in the same neighborhood (pictured below). I would like to see the Venn Diagram of graffiti artists who read Phil Dick books - they sound like good people. Do I even have to mention how cool it is that there's someone out there tagging 'Ubik'? Can you not see how this is evidence of Ubik itself? This graffiti is text that has broken free from the bounds of its book and is now loose in the world. So much of Dick's work chronicles decay and entropy, but here new information springs forth from Dick's work, words giving birth to words. Literature as virus.

Here's the dumpster behind Guitar Center...

Here's a close up...