Let’s Talk About What’s Going On In This Mural

by Glark on February 4, 2008


This is a mural from the P87 school on the Upper West Side. There’s a lot going on in this mural (see bigger shots on Flickr). A lot. One particular head scratcher is why a goblin is bursting forth from a horse. Do the students of P87 have night terrors over this? Seriously, what’s going on in this mural?

Cats protecting cemeteries with giant sundaes in them? Huh? Wha?

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1 Glark 02.04.08 at 6:13 am

Some notes on the mural’s subjects:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glark/2240918941/

2 solaana 02.04.08 at 11:11 am

Maybe unicorns are secretly evil, and the feline time guardian is exorcising the evil unicorn goblin from this otherwise ordinary horse. I think it makes sense, because then the horse gets a sundae afterwards, because being exorcised is like getting your tonsils out. Everybody knows that.

3 Omar G. 02.04.08 at 5:50 pm

The Great Gazoo’s evil cousin, the Not So Great Horseshoo.

4 pamie 02.04.08 at 8:31 pm

When I first opened this page, I thought that was a New Yorker cover.

5 Tara 02.04.08 at 10:22 pm

The real question is why Dave is spending so much time hanging out at public schools.

6 Glark 02.04.08 at 11:38 pm

I can’t afford to hang out at private schools.

7 Mike 02.06.08 at 11:04 am

My theory is that the genie was added after the fact, to obscure the horse’s genitals.

8 solaana 02.06.08 at 11:43 am

I don’t know - something in that knowing smirk says “female” to me.