What is George Bush? Activists put up sign on freeway

[Grimmlok]

Hi, I was one of the (2) people who put up this banner in Chicago. Thanks for your supportive comments. We used a roll of cheap plastic white tablecloth, available at party supply stores or websites. Using a Sharpie I traced out the letters with a digital projector (you can also use an overhead or slide projector) using Adobe Illustrator (Word or Wordpad is fine too). I tacked and untacked the roll to the wall as I moved down the roll. After tracing, I rolled it up and took it to my comrade's house. There, we laid it out on his very long driveway, held down edges of the plastic with a few rocks and painted the letters in quickly with cheap red latex paint. Don't spend too much time being perfect with the letters, because from 10-20 feet, nobody can detect those imperfections. Then we duct-taped some pieces of wire to the edges: on the corners and about every 8 feet or so. All in all, it took about 2 hours (results may vary). At the pedestrian overpass at Bryn Mawr over I-90 (inbound to Chicago loop at rush hour) my comrade unrolled as I fastened the wires to the chain link fence. Once unrolled, we went back and further secured the sign from the wind by stretching duct tape from the top to the bottom about every 4 feet (if you look closely at the pic you can see it through the light plastic). It took about 3-5 minutes to set up with two people, but I recommend 3. If it had not been for Illinois Dept of Transportation clean up guys seeing it so quickly, it could have stayed up for a lot longer. While we were putting it up, the supportive honks from the hundreds of cars passing by was DEAFENING! It was so visible, that people in the opposite 4 lanes were honking as they read it in their rear-view mirrors. Try this at home kids!

Tales of the Freewayblogger: Chicago, IL

[Mira]

Grimm your pic isn't showing. No matter because of the link, but FYI.

ETA: OK today it's showing

[Dean James]

I love that sign! I'm in the middle of 'Fiasco' by Thomas Ricks and if GWB isn't a lying sack of shit then he's the dumbest -DUMBEST- president in the history of the world.

[Grimmlok]

It shows for me, and it seems others..

[shedevilang]

i couldn't see the pic either but the link works just as good lol

[Grimmlok]

huh. maybe your stuff is blocked at work or somethin'

[Mira]

I've always been able to see your pics... no matter. Maybe if I switched back to Firefox... I prefer IE for GR though.

[shedevilang]

I use IE too I used to have firefox maybe that's the problem

[AliceInWonderland]

click on the link ppl!!!! Tales of the Freewayblogger: Chicago, IL Omg they are my heroes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats the funniest shit i've seen in a while! There was a banner on some private construction like that here in Venice, but some thieves stole it a few weeks ago
check it out: VENICE Paper

[xoxo]

hehe..that's so funny

[Mr. Authority]

Loves it.

[Aella]

Haha, this is great!

[olivia720]

Makes me sad cause I know its true. wish we had a president we could be proud of. wonder when that'll happen agian??

[ediebrooks]

I like that banner.

[Mira]

I wonder how long it took before the cops trashed it before taking it down.