You've got to be kidding me.

Rode over to the Target at Hampton and Chippewa today, and as I'm rolling out, I notice another block of brand new asphalt right behind the building. I don't in The Hills, but I figured I'd take a circuitous route before crossing back over Hampton. The new asphalt is not a surprise, as there seems to be shitloads of newly paved blocks in my neck of the woods these days. So naturally I glance down to see if I notice any bright white dominoes or golf balls contrasting against the black pavement, and what do I see?

This is what I freaking see at Clifton and Bancroft:

Now, I make it a point to not gamble. Which is why I don't know the logos of different casinos on their playing chips/tokens. However, I know that those ARE game pieces, much like the dominoes and golf balls. And they were pretty firmly stuck. Someone out there is bound to know to which casinos they are connected.

At this point, those chips could very well have been dropped there accidentally. Next to each other. At the time of paving. But I doubt it. So now I suppose we have three different mediums through which the alien lizard people are trying to communicate to us - dominoes, golf balls, and casino chips.


Speaking of dominoes, there is a set at the other end of that same block - Chippewa and Clifton:

Arsenal and Hampton

Whoah, nelly! Has there been a lot of off-the-wall, crazy activity lately with new dominoes and golf balls, or what! It might be a little too much for me to handle. I mean this is getting out of hand. 

Thanks to the recent Reddit post, I have become privy to 2 more locations of dominoes. I managed to check the first one out today,  at Arsenal and Hampton, technically within the Clifton Heights neighborhood. If you've ever had your hair done did at Lords and Ladies Hair Salon at this corner, you should go back there and look right in front of the front door, because there it is:

These have the colored dots, so whatever that means.

I've also learned that there may be another set at Forest Park Parkway and Skinker, which should be easy for me to verify, as I pass through that intersection on my way to work every day. I would not be surprised, since FP Parkway had been re-paved last week from Des Peres Road all the way to Skinker - and there is a golf ball at Des Peres Road. Talk about crazy.

Additionally, today on the same ride where I found the Arsenal and Hampton domino, I also noticed that pair of dominoes I had found just a couple blocks away at 59th and Southwest, in front of Jimmy Mack's Bar and Grill, is now missing one of the two. I would bet it just got jostled loose and knocked away. You can still see the depression left in the asphalt where the second domino once was.

Stay tuned, as I must now ponder the greater implications that all of this has on the world situation.

Compton and Washington, my theory, and Reddit

Greetings, others who have little else to occupy their brain.



Found this set about a week ago, at Compton and Washington.

Those tiles look like they had asphalt kinda smeared over them, as if it they had been smeared at the time of paving. I don't think asphalt will smear once it's set. This leads me to lean more towards believing the theory that a Street Dept. worker is behind this. I feel somewhat certain that this stuff can only be laid at the time of paving.


Speaking of paving, there seems to have been a shitload of new pavement being laid all throughout South City lately. In the process of riding around, I have found many more golf balls. I am too lazy to grab photos of all of them and upload them today, but I can tell you I've found them at Forest Park Parkway and Des Peres Road, along Eichelberger where it intersects both Wherry AND Macklind (and there is already a domino at Macklind and Eichelberger!) Not to mention that huge stretches of Manchester, Arsenal, and Chippewa have all been repaved, and I bet there is tons more buried treasure to be found.

I was passing by Eichelberger and Wherry the other day while the Street Dept. was in the process of striping the newly paved stretch - had any of them been standing around instead of actually working, I would have inquired about what the shit this is all about. But sure enough, fresh golf balls in the pavement the same day or day after that stretch was paved, and a golf ball found in the asphalt the DAY AFTER Forest Park Parkway was repaved. It HAS to be a City Street worker.

Which kinda makes me wonder if the golf ball thing is like some apprentice person who is copy-catting the domino guy. Do they know each other? Are they related? Is one guy taking over for the domino guy? WHAT THE SHIT


Onto other news, It looks like I'm (or rather, this phenomenon) is Reddit-famous:
http://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/1ms942/new_pavement_at_grand_and_washington_means_new/

Be sure to chime in.