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What Do One Million Ja Tags Signify? (3rd Edition)

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A guy you don’t know writes a message you don’t understand in neighborhoods you don’t go in and yet you still think you know what it all means? What are you smoking and can you pass that this way? People go on podcasts claiming to know what the writings on walls and objects mean while city officials use the writings to win political points and slumlord land developers follow the writings in order to know which poor area to buy up to take advantage of the most vulnerable. Whatever they are smoking, pass that.

Much has changed since the first edition of this groundbreaking text, therefore, we have to break bread one last time before putting this world of ideas to rest. This third, and final green edition, brings in a new post-pandemic hyper speed internet migrant over the border crack is back chapter where a zone of exceptionalism is discovered & recovered.
In this book, King Kong Novy goes through time portals in subway tunnels dressed as Santa to translate simple graffiti into abstruse DIY folk music, keeping the driving question Can the WoWO Speak? foremost in mind.

Dr. Dumar Novy is the proud step-father once removed of Graffito Studies. His writings have helped people use an obscure name in their Works Cited pages as well as be a reference for Wikipedia pages that probably should be debated more in the sandbox. Take LSD and understand the truth. Some newly published essays are: Peace 2 Fred & 16art (2023), Sazo, Spair & You (2011), Desa & Les Are Beautiful (2022), Tsombikos & Tianen Rock & Roll (2019), Phase II Spawned Writers (2025).