What is it Then?

We're starting to think that it's not just the Wedgwood Safeway that's a bit odd. We've started coming to the conclusion that it may the whole dam neighborhood.

On a recent walk to our local PCC (which, for the record, is also odd in that it is ridiculously small for a liberal neighborhood with as much disposable income as this one seems to have) we spied the graffiti pictured here. We have to admit that it was actually kind of comforting to our eyes (late of Capitol Hill) to see some gorilla art on the perfectly manicured streets of Wedgwood.

Along the way to the store that midsummer's eve to get our overpriced packages of fake lunch meats and boxes of almond milk, we saw this same stencil and one other ("Vortex") on random fences, electric utility boxes, those weird green mailboxes that only the mailman can open and on the street itself. It left us thinking that maybe, just maybe there is some rebellion and vibrancy in this neighborhood after all. On the way home we even fantasized about how this might end up being a city-wide thing that got people talking for a bit and how, when it got big enough, we could regale people at parties with tales of the first sitings here in sleepy Wedgwood.

But alas, no. Weeks have gone by and there's been no more spray painting along this route or in any other in the neighborhood that we know of. Just these few statements about what it is not and claims to ownership by the mysterious Vortex. At this point, we have to conclude it's not even some lame gureilla marketing scheme. It was probably just some rich kid with access to his dad's store of spray cans.

Still, every time we go to the store or for a run, we're left wondering who you are Vortex and if it's not The Pot, what is it and can we have some? Please?