Corporate rat

At the corner of Broadway and Howard Street, someone has painted this marvelous corporate rat on a wall facing a vacant lot. Presumably it’s connected with the Wall Street credit crisis and the impending bailout or “rescue.” A close look reveals that the rat has blood on his hands.

Update: On October 15 I spotted another rat painted in similar style on the side of building on Houston Street. Some intentionally half-obscured type that accompanied the rat makes it look as though this is part of a viral campaign for some kind of new gossip show on Fox. Too bad: I preferred to think that it was the work of a freelance social critic. At any rate, I liked it better than the viral campaign for the new TrueBlood vampire show, which was initially intriguing but soon became exhausting. These guys are trying too hard.