"Going all city" (graffiti everywhere)

[neil]

on 28/5/05 5:35 am, bapopik at AOL.COM at bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> http://www.barrypopik.com/article/933/going-all-city-graffiti-slang
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> The movie BOMB THE SYSTEM about "graffiti artists" opened today in New York.
> It mentions "going all city."
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> If anyone has good "tagger slang," send it along.

'Golden Boy as Anthony Cool' by Herbert Kohl / photographs by James Hinton
(Dial Press, NY, 1972), a photo-essay on naming and graffiti, may be of
interest.

--Neil Crawford