Saturday, October 28, 2023

Cracked!

 About that spherical work of art in Oxford Square......





33 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do they prove it wasn’t like that before?

Anonymous said...

1 trip to Home Depot and a little time will fix that.

Anonymous said...

This is “art”? Oxford needs help.

Anonymous said...

So this rather bland looking ball is valued in excess of $5,000 and therefore the individuals who rolled it off committed a felony? I have always thought I had zero artistic talent but now I am rethinking that.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully the police will search the globe for the culprits.

Anonymous said...

A fraternity needs to adopt this egg, have a sledge hammer event. Old blood in Oxford had remarkable taste; this concoction is heavy litter subject to heavy hitters. Why not plant the whole area as a garden with a bird bath water feature and no adjacent path that invited Ladies of Girth and Brawn to tackle it?

Kingfish said...

All balls matter.

Competition Balls said...

KingFish for the win ! ! ! !

Anonymous said...

Lol, KF with the gangsta comment!!! He’s usually so serious :)

Anonymous said...

Let's all have a big laugh about this and stick the bill to whoever is responsible for this. No time. No record. Just write the check.

Anonymous said...

The real scandal, here, is that substantial monies were probably expended in the creation of that 1980s POSTMODERN 'pocket park'.

The style is not historically accurate. Probably without a trip to a library, and certainly without ordering books on historic architecture and period gardens, whoever concocted that design, could have researched actual gardens from the century within which City Hall was constructed. Then, they could and SHOULD have adapted those drawings to the project.

One has to wonder how trashy those running Oxford must be, to not understand this. The same could be said of those who allowed the successive abominations imposed upon the greenspace that is Jackson's Smith Park. But Oxford is supposed to be a classy place (and full of history). Why was that watered-down Postmodern design allowed?

Anonymous said...

@4:33 PM Won the internet today. KF took a close second.

Anonymous said...

Pocket Park is actually an official USGS marker designating the intergluteal cleft of America. 34°21'59.8"N 89°31'06.2"W

Anonymous said...

Ms. Ball Breakers

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Anonymous said...

I noticed it's not a football. Figures.

Anonymous said...

I should have majored in Art instead of Business...

Anonymous said...

Flex Seal and buff it, then full send!

Anonymous said...

If, this is art....Target has the front of its store lined with em!

Anonymous said...

6:02 It doesn't matter how trashy those Oxford folk may be. Your petulant child broke that big ole ball which did not belong to her. Not teaching your child some manners is going to cost you. Now, we gonna let by gones be by gones so just send the check on. We have playgrounds in the city and those children can abuse the equipment we have placed there. Thank you for your help in this matter.

Anonymous said...

No rain in months and 100+ temperature. Hmm, what would cause that to crack? Looks like tectonic plates.

Hotty Totty said...

In a town where everything else is faux, including an SEC West Football Championship, perhaps we should name that object of fine art "Faulkner's Fault" and tip our red cups to it.

Anonymous said...

Stupid to display something that fragile in a unprotected public display.

Anonymous said...

KF, do you know what the material of the ball is? If it's marble, I see the problem. If it's not, I don't. But, marble should have been too heavy to be pushed off it's base so easily. Nor can I understand why the design would make it that insecure setting on the base.

Anonymous said...

Did they identify the ladies that did this?

Anonymous said...

$5k for that? Must be some of that high demand Hunter Biden art.

Anonymous said...

Guess what, rednecks? It matters not what you think of it. Fact is, it belongs to someone else and that's what it cost.

Belly up girls. Let's get into them striped, green pants and start collecting trash along highway 6. Wear masks so your friends won't recognize you.

Anonymous said...

The good news is that the third girl was passed out in the car so she won't be charged.

Anonymous said...

Interesting how many people apparently have no issue with this. I guess until it's their property...

Anonymous said...

@ 8:53 - It wasn't a car. This is Oxford! It was a stake-body truck with no bumpers and a Bon Jovi sticker on the back glass. Let's not talk about what was in that 55 gallon drum on the back, but it were real ripe.

Anonymous said...

Uh, Oh! Whoever cracked it is going to get sued for $500 in compensatory damages and $1 billion in punitive damages. #JustBribeTheJudge

Anonymous said...

6:02 It doesn't matter how trashy those Oxford folk may be. Your petulant child broke that big ole ball which did not belong to her. Not teaching your child some manners is going to cost you. Now, we gonna let by gones be by gones so just send the check on. We have playgrounds in the city and those children can abuse the equipment we have placed there. Thank you for your help in this matter.

October 29, 2023 at 7:08 AM

6:02, here. First of all, we've been a denim-free family, since our kids' last night at the Boardy Barn (a place in the Hamptons, where our sons realized they have an aversion to skanks - particularly skanks in daisydukes). So, no daughter of mine, would be out there wearing Old Navy Kneeless Grannyjeans.

Second: the "female" with the longer arms, is clearly a woman in her forties. Judging from the consistent light blue of the denim on the older one, the plump blonde in the cheerleader skirt, and the jeans on the boy resignedly waiting for the "females" to finish, I'm going to assume that the older "female" is the mother of the girl and the boy. Looks like she shops an Old Navy outlet store, somewhere. (Alabama, maybe)

Third: those people seem to be precisely the sort who would NOT see anything wrong with the design of the pocket park. To them, it probably looks "old-timey". But then, the church they attend probably has jumbotron screens and colored lights, and a pseudotraditional interior, looking like a sports stadium dolled-up for a prom whose theme is 'Elizabethan Times'.

Fourth: "by gones" is properly written as 'bygones'.

Fifth: had one of the "females" been my daughter, I would have already sent a local attorney, with a generous check (written on HIS account, to shield ME). After asking my mom (the older one), where and WHY she had acquired the 'Nutmeg' flesh-toned slip-top she'd tucked into those tacky jeans, I would have sent her off to a memory care facility. My daughter (the pudgy tot in the cheerleader skirt) upon seeing her institutionalized grandmother (either shackled to a bed, or immobilized with Midazolam) would be sufficiently edified, and would not, in the future, collaborate with others, in defacing public property.





Anonymous said...

6:36 - OK, you got me. I looked up "intergluteal cleft." Good one.


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