o hand in hand

while noodling around on the arts and letters daily page today, i found this enlightening article, in which a journalist meets a man in baghdad who has been documenting post-war graffiti there. the results are all over the board, and amount to a rather detailed little window into what may (???) be indicative of the various sentiments there. hopping around from article to article these days, i think it's pretty unclear as to the nuts-and-bolts of the "iraqi reaction," but this seems to me to be a step in the right direction. i dunno, i could be wrong. at any rate, some of these are funny as hell. like this one:

HIS COMING WAS A DISASTER, HIS STAYING WAS A DISASTER, AND HIS LEAVING IS A DISASTER

(i laughed out loud)