Reason # 317 I need a cameraphone

A couple weeks ago on AskMetafilter someone posed the question: Hey, how come no one's tried to deface the NYC2012 ad campaign posters? I thought it odd, because it's rare to see a subway ad that's NOT been scrawled on.*

Anyhow, it turns out that these posters have, in fact, been graffitoed rather cleverly.

Sadly, I don't have photos of the two most recent examples of subway-ad graffiti that impressed me, because I don't have a cameraphone and I never carry my camera because I'm an idiot. But humor me as I attempt to describe them. The first I saw in the Greenpoint Ave. G station: It's for the highly esteemed Interboro Institute and, as part of their inspirational new campaign, this one features an African American man leaping into the air accompanied by copy in which he pledges not to let 2005 pass him by. After the printed copy, someone appended No more tap-dancing for The Man.**

The second ad appeared in my local Jackson Ave 7 stop, and it's for the new Bolla Chianti. Superimposed on a picturesque Tuscan landscape are the words "Meet the new Italian in town." Underneath, someone scrawled, Soon he'll be shtupping your wife.

*Which reminds me of an essay I read in the Times many years ago by a guy whose visage appeared in subway ads. He noted one must summon a particular type of fortitude when passing a poster on which someone has drawn a penis hanging out of your ear.

**Hey, speaking of Greenpoint, my cousin the plant manager got quoted in the NY Times today. Good on him! The last time anyone in my family appeared in the paper was during that rather unfortunate double-homicide back in the 70s. Distant cousin.