hhThe results of spending $78K on art for the new palatial $8m. — at least — Arboretum fire station were completed and installed the other day. Super.

What I love about this little shell game is that the mayor and perhaps a few members of city council decry the 1% expenditure on such art without reference to how in the hell the city came to spend the other 99% of such a sum on the construction of what should be a plain vanilla fire station.

Instead local taxpayers got waxed for some fantasy of a villa stolen away from Italy — or more likely Florida. It is obscene and city staff should be ashamed of themselves. Talk about fantasies…

Meanwhile, a name? How about “Plow Aloft” or “Rouge Can-Opener” or “The Death of Civic Responsibility?”

Photos by loyal commentator dj aka Tanker Narc