Urban Crop Circles

Urban Crop Circles

In the 1970’s, aliens tried to coordinate their invasion of our planet by marking farmer’s fields with hieroglyphics that only they and Led Zeppelin could understand. In the first part of the twenty first century they have begun marking their lines of attack for urban street fighting; their glyphs are smaller now, and more colorful, but no easier to comprehend.

That’s one interpretation. The more likely explanation is that Austin’s streets are about to be torn up yet again to lay a new cable or fix an old sewer line.