![]() ![]() Congress put us back to work under Presidential Emergency Board arbitration, which gave us another paltry raise, but stripped us of a lot of our work rules contracts that more than made up for it. This was in hopes of a decent raise after two contract periods under Reagan and Bush had promised a “kinder, gentler” administration, which was another fucking lie. In 1991, Bill Daniel began his hobo film adventure and was interrupted by our railroad union going on strike. In a recent interview with the Oxford American, Blurr recounts when he and Daniel first met: Better known as buZ Blurr, and by his moniker The Colossus of Roads, Blurr hails from a family of railworkers and has been scrawling his messages on train cars for decades. Of the countless people Daniel encounters in the film, a retired railworker named Russell Butler is a standout. The film chronicles Daniel’s search for what he describes as “the source of a ubiquitous rail graffiti-a simple sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, ‘Bozo Texino’-a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years.” Beautifully shot in black and white, Daniel’s quest unfolds against sprawling landscapes populated by a ragtag cast of fellow freighthoppers, spurring his desire to better understand and even help to preserve the mysterious art form. To make the film Who is Bozo Texino? (external link) (2005), photographer Bill Daniel spent nearly two decades train hopping across America to document the folkloric tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. ![]()
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