[BRIEF NOTE] Identity Confirmed

[rfmcdonald]

Two weeks ago, someone tagged some glass surfaces around the Drake Hotel--a map of the TTC in a passenger's shelter, the fronts of newspaper vending machines--with the word "SAMO," done in red spray paint. I had no idea what that meant, and felt rather annoyed by the obscurity of the tag as much as by the act of vandalism itself.

Only just now, as I was browsing Phoebe Hogan's biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat, did I learn that "SAMO" was Basquiat's tag, standing in for "same old shit."

I'm still annoyed with the graffitist, though.