Locals Flying around Town

August 31st, 2009

by hilariousnyc

Clear packing tape. Level positioning. Very professional.

What makes flyers so amusing is that in this city cluttered with bullshit advertising, flyers actually mean something. People text crap all day. Ramble on their cell phones about the crack head stumbling in front of them. Twitter about cold French fries. Email each other photos of kittens with your grandfather’s teeth. But flyers, even and perhaps especially the crazy ones, are sincere and require time, money, and effort—dodging neighborhood traffic with a roll of tape and pile of recently printed flyers, leaning over trashcans in the rain so New Yorkers can see what you have to offer.

HilariousNYC.com takes flyers seriously, particularly—of course—the ones that induce a smile. This flyer is an advertisement for a blog, dubblexblogspot.com, by Dubblex. It’s an artful, sexy, sometimes revolutionary blog complete with original poetry and engaging photos. Unfortunately, the url on the bottom flyer isn’t discernable, but it is made from the same sturdy, yellowish paper and features creative fonts with a similar underground tone in its message. Clearly, Dubblex is double dipping, but that’s all right. The man has passion. We know because the flyer says so.

13 Responses to “Locals Flying around Town”

dubblex Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm

I can’t pay for advertising like this. Thanks for looking out.

Violet Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 9:22 pm

Free free free dubblex.blogspot.com!

Yay!

Violet Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 9:44 pm

the url on the bottom poster is dubblex’s partner

Violet Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 9:45 pm

yikes was trying to post and site keeps disarming my type

http://joyleftowsblog.blogspot.com

for dubblex’s partner’s blog

HilariousNYC Staff (Jim) Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Thanks so much for the comments, Violet. I’m working on the comment function so that it redirects to the proper page. Appreciate you hanging in there. Just added Joy Leftow’s and dubblex’s blogs to my blogroll. Hope that brings some additional readers. Best, – Jim

desire Says:
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:16 pm

wateva so you cant do any thing about it so keep on thinking about other things that is more smart