Missing the best one

David Winkler-Schmit has an amusing story in this week's Gambit where he talks to a handful of bloggers who each offer their best criticisms of graffiti bully Fred Radtke. I've always said that the problem isn't so much Radtke's unstable and obsessive personality as much as it is that he continues to be empowered by the city to piss all over everything. But since we know the city empowers all sorts of ridiculous bullshit we are hardly surprised at this any more.

I still wish David had contacted Dangerblond for this story since I still think she... um... paints the best picture of Radtke.

Radtke’s vendetta against Dingler, whose removable art works are not the same thing as graffiti and are infinitely preferable to Radtke’s obnoxious slashes of grey paint, shows you what this guy is really doing. He is making his own marks all over town. If he was really motivated by a desire to clean up ugly and offensive defacements off people’s property, he would use different paint colors to more closely match the colors of the buildings he is “fixing.” But no, he doesn’t want to do it in your color, he wants it in his color. He wants everyone to know that Radtke was here. This guy is basically an aggressive dog, sniffing out the places where other dogs have peed, and peeing on top of their pee. That will show them!