not-quite snowclone

[Mark Mandel]

Philadelphia is not the home of Robert Indiana's original LOVE
sculpture<http://www.imamuseum.org/collections/artwork/love-indiana-robert>,
but it has its own
version<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LOVE_Park_Philly.JPG>(one
of many <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Love_sculptures>) and is
proud of it. Many takeoffs on the
sculpture<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%28sculpture%29#Versions>allude
to love, including RAGE and HATE versions.

But in Philadelphia I have noticed many, many takeoffs which, as far as I
can tell, use it as an allusion to Philadelphia itself. I've photographed
these as I've spotted them. Do y'all think this collection is worth
organizing and posting as a kind of graphical snowclone?

Mark Mandel


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

>  From the lips of the spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial
> Campaign Commission, Brad Dayspring:
>
> > "Alison Lundergan Grimes seems incapable of articulating her own
> > thoughts, and faced with questions, either directly parrots the
> > talking points handed to her by [Sen.] Chuck Schumer or she babbles
> > incoherently and stares blankly into the camera as though she’s a
> > freshman in high school struggling to remember the CliffsNotes after
> > forgetting to read her homework assignment."
>
> In further comments to The Hill he then referred to Grimes as "an empty
> dress".
>
> As someone had remarked in the comments on TPM, "We have witnessed the
> birth of a new cliche."
>
> VS-)
>
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