T-Rex: Balloons are pretty cool. Rockets are pretty rad too! But radder than both put together? Oh, I don't know.... how about -

T-Rex: - a ROCKOON??

T-Rex: A rockoon is when you just friggin' tie a rocket to a balloon! The balloon goes up some of the way, and then you FIRE THE ROCKET and it goes up the rest of the way! IT IS THE RADDEST WAY TO ARRIVE AT WORK.
Dromiceiomimus: You - you can ride them into work?
T-Rex: Heck, Dromiceiomimus, you can ride them anywhere! IT IS THE MAGIC OF ROCKOONS.

Utahraptor: Man, you can't just make up transportation methods!
T-Rex: Rockoons were used in the 50s, dude!

T-Rex: But they were abandoned as aiming's pretty much impossible. Anyway, I can too make up new transports. Observe the DERIGITANK! And the skateboat! And the catapubmarine, gyrobus, and MAGLEV TRAIN.
Utahraptor: ...
T-Rex: -icopter. Maglev trainicopter.

T-Rex: ...
T-Rex: ...I think I gave myself an awesomeness stroke

January 27th, 2010: Rockoons! JUST AS AWESOME AS YOU IMAGINED.

So yesterday I linked to Posterchild and Jason Eppink's awesome Astoria Scum River Bridge (a story that was picked up by Boing Boing!) and said it was cool how street art can be constructive. Post's latest update is even more awesome: the bridge has been tagged (thereby christening it as an official Brooklyn piece of public transit), but also, NYC Council Member Peter F. Vallone Jr. (representin' Astoria!) sent them an official letter thanking them for making the bridge, and promising that the leak that caused the bridge to be necessary in the first place will be repaired.

So awesome, you guys! Often when people online talk about street art, the conversation devolves to "hurr hurr if someone ever tags my suburban garage door I'll kill 'em, nobody better tag my suburban garage door", and it's really cool when something like this happens and you can point to it and say "positive change through street art, JERKS" and then whisper under your breath "sorry for calling you jerks, but seriously".

One year ago today: hey everyone, remember xtreegold? man i have been on, like, a 24-hour xtgold nostalgia bender

– Ryan