It is more important than ever that we all be gay and do crime.

"No one is illegal on stolen land" and "Deport European settlers" are incongrous.

Do your readers know that the Big Brother stickers have been stuck around Seattle since before 1984? That they pretty much founded the local guerilla sticker culture?

The first time I saw it was on a gas pump on Eastlake in 1983 (at a station that no longer exists). The sticker, as I recall it, was triangular. In those days, as one was unaccustomed to non-official messaging in public spaces (which, back then, were considered controlled spaces), this particular representation of Big Brother, along with the familiar phrase — a subversive message (a reversal of its authored intent) created by the hand of an individual artist — in this most corporate of contexts, was actually jarring.

Jasmyne asks the same question here as I had 37 years ago: "Who is this man?" While the face of Big Brother was described in Orwell's book, this particular representation was entirely new. It wasn't the face in the first film adaptation (BBC 1954), and the second film was yet to be released. Over the years, this visage became more familiar around the region, as these B.B. stickers became large-format wheatpasted posters. Later, this image was reduced to just the eyes, and yet was as recognizable to locals as the ubiquitous eyes of Andre The Giant commanding the world to "OBEY".

I can't find any more information online about its author, or tales of its distribution. It's funny that it's back in circulation. Did it ever leave? I left Seattle in 1993, so for all I know BB has been watching the local citizens all this time. Ms Keimig's column is the first chronicle of the local sticker culture that it spawned.

Jasmyne could do a full column on the history of this sticker alone.

Mr Rogers would advise his gay cast member to marry a woman, as he genuinely did.