EARL
JR. creates another opus in the snow. This
one is entitled "I Miss You So Much, Dale" and can be seen on
the corner of Roxbury and Gurnsey Street.
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Turbo Does IT Again
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EAST KEENE- The East Keene Junior Trade School Drama Club will be presenting its latest play, Knife Fight, this coming weekend. As is the tradition of the EKJTS Drama Club there will be no actors or plot. Two lucky audience members will be fed six shots of Jagermeister, tied together at the neck and right arm, given a switchblade, and be left to create theatrical magic. This show is the latest installment from sixth-year senior Eric "Turbo" Foyston, creator of Drunk Pogo Stick on Broken Glass, and Three Perverts With a Sock Full of Pudding. He is considered the greatest dramatic talent ever to walk the halls of EKJTS. |
When asked what he attributes his success to, he responds, "Well, in my third year at EKJTS I learned to read. "At first I was embarrassed because I didn't want to look like a smarty-pants, but then some of my friends told me they were proud of me, and they wished they could read too. I used my gift of reading to read about pogo sticks, alcohol, perverts, and knife fights." It took little time for Foyston to incoorperate what he learned into his work. “Perhaps you can see how these interests are reflected in my plays. HEY! GET YOUR ASS OFF MY IROC!" Turbo has a history of unleashing surprise endings to his works. Drunk Pogo Stick ended with Turbo throwing up |
on an audience member.
"That wasn't a planned event. It just sort of happened, but people
really responded to it. So I had my bud Smitty kick the perverts in the
dink when they got done with the pudding sock. I don't want to give away
the ending to Knife Fight, but I'm going to
throw a lawn dart at the winner." |
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EARL
JR. creates another opus in the snow. This
one is entitled "I Miss You So Much, Dale" and can be seen on
the corner of Roxbury and Gurnsey Street. |
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| Art of Snow Graffiti Lost on Youth and Drunkards | ||
| EAST KEENE- "I am an artist," Grove St. denizen Earl Jr. states matter-of-factly as he seeks purchase in the snow piled high on his front lawn. "And this is my art." While thousands of East Keeners huddle indoors, hoping to escape Jack Frost's cold breath as he whistles through their blue and yellow vinyl siding, Earl Jr. calmly bedecks his 10 foot by 20 foot front yard with urine. “Some days I'll just do a corner, other days I'll coat the whole thing with piss. Guess it depends what I drank for breakfast.” No random etch-a-sketching to be found here, Earl Jr. prides himself on the ability to create art in this oft-ignored medium. Some designs currently on display include a snake, a large letter “Z,” and a line connecting the corner of Earl Jr.'s house to the nearest telephone pole. |
“That long one there represents my burning desire to one day own a working telephone, and possibly cable for my Sanyo,damned thing don't get reception for shit,” Earl Jr. “Some
days I'll just do a corner, other days I'll coat the whole thing with
piss. Guess it depends what I drank for breakfast.”
declared, distracted just long enough to ruin his latest masterpiece, a figure eight. “This one's for Dale's boy Dale Junior. I figure he and I have a bond goin', since we both got short names that end in Junior. I had this nice one going of his car before that damn snowfall last week. You shoulda |
seen it.” Earl Jr. admits that snow graffiti is not just for everybody. It took years of training in private before he had the confidence to bare his soul to the harsh critics of greater East Keene. “Nothin' gets me pissed off more, yeah I said pissed, then those amateurs you see outside the bars or over on frat row at Keene State. Fools think peeing in the snow is just something to do to fill the day, no sir. You gotta practice, you gotta find the inner urinator inside of you, I tell you what.” Earl Jr.'s work will be put on exhibition later this weekend, as he hopes to visit local alehouses during the Super Bowl and give free lessons to anybody within shouting distance. |