This whole thing is about "Style In Progress" - this seems to be an annual event that attracts taggers, painters, artistes and vegetarians from miles afar.  Seems every year, they gather to cover the back alleys behind Queens with some fun and entertainment. It's ordained, it's free, it's fun for the whole family.  For anyone wanting a closer look at some of the notable works in STYLE IN PROGRESS for 'O5, just CLEEK DEES LEENK.  Amid Toronto's Sweat-Box Squalor, there lives some Paint-Box color.  Rubinesque, n'est-ce pas? Down we go, in the food chain once again.   A little submersible submarine explores the Descending Colon of Queens-Way as we encounter nary but our own shadows in the Alleyways of Anglo-Ville Proper.

"Something Wicked This Way Comes" begins our strip-tease show today.  Setting us up for a Life-With-Stephen-King kind-of dinner experience, the taste buds prepare for higher branches.

Ren's Juicy Blue Machine - below - keeps Love out of sight, while Bloated Porpoises frolic on the couch with Dad.

Blue, again, invades our dreamless night, reminding us that the most popular color is - according to the Color-Wheel-Pro - linked to "depth and stability".  Hmm.  Isn't that the 1st thing that springs to mind when you see pieces like this?  Associated with "intellect" as opposed to "emotional warmth".

OK.  But, yes - a masculine color.  There we go.  Thinking machines we men are.  When not making sweet little cookies out of Javascript, we're designing Ferrari's on Brick Billboards.   Anything to keep Johnny's Hands Busy.  ANYTHING.  Give him "sports".  Give him Baseballs.  Give him wrenches. Give him Bare Walls and Clean Hands.  Give him the color BLUE.

now.  The hospital Latrine background brings back many visits to High School Washrooms - mainly to smoke cigarettes.  The Blue & Urine Bomb has the usual recipe of pointed tails and dancing letters.  But ... okay.  Now what?  What's on TV?  "The Man From UNCLE"? "Cheers"?  Aw, shit mom, more summer re-runs.  Okay.  Walk the Dog.  Take a leak.  Break a mirror.  Anything, just go away, boredom!

This cryptic RED Doorway - again we're gonna consult with the Color-Wheel-Pro dot com Oracle in assigning deep organic meaning to this - this doorway does boast some interesting symbolism.  But first, "RED" ... 

Fire and Blood: therefore, energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination.  Wow!  I've heard enough to carry on dancing!

Okay, my little Pre-Limbic Potatoe, get on Uncle Andy's couch and we'll delve deep into your gnawing psychosis.  Ready?

PIG-BLOT on the right is our Customer-of-the-Hour. A tagger enthusiastically named "B" (for "boy"?) is the culprit.  There's so much gone wrong in this piece that it's actually gone right.  The Pig's head is obscured and sports two imbalanced antennae.  It looks like he may have once worn glasses, probably bifocals.  No arms suggests powerlessness and "victim mind-set" while the curiously-alarm-clock-shaped body suggests the Pig's days are numbered, and in fact, may have already expired.

Wow.  The Male Warriors of our Time.  It's bad news actually.  It's so bad, that I might turn on the TV and watch Miami Vice reruns just for the heck of it.  At least with Don Johnson, you know what's cookin'.

Which brings us to this humble and noteworthy conclusion: orange. With subtle shades of peach and rose-blush thrown in.  Why do I immediately like this one when I lay my eyes on it?

Back to our oracle at Color-Wheel-Pro.com. "Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation."

I couldn't have said it better.  What a recipe for enlightenment!  Listen up Blue-Boys and Redd-Hedds, try something more "grounding" and "organic" for a change, will ya? 

Trade your testosterone and Lambrogenies for a trip to the Organic Farmers' Market Co-op and still thy Vagrant Heart.

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Leonard Cohen surveys the damage done to the Organic Orange wall with this Quirky Green Puzzle.  Back to our Color Wheel Authority: "Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money. "

Kind of says it all, doesn't it? "Freshness, Fertility, and Money".  It's what God gave us, and we wasted it on Drugs, Spray Paint and Hacki-Saki Balls.  Makes me want to cry, or buy a condo in Cornerbrook, NFLD., and write military poetry.

BUT WAIT, there is a little redemption on this Wall of Mexican Creme.  Carrie, Byron, Lisa and OPS signed this piece and I think it honesty SIZZLES.  Even though it's blue (and we Police-Boys LIKE that...) it also has a built-in DANCE that grabs you by the scrotum.  It's alive, powerful and balanced, something like a Chorus-Line of Negroes dancing during their break on a Lamborghini Assembly Line.

That's the best I can make of it.

But then, I'm looking through somewhat tainted spectacles myself.

Taint It Ashame?