Not particularly beloved DC area graffiti artist Borf was nabbed Wednesday morning. Essentially Borf's deal was to write self aggrandizing statements on street signs and walls.. and that's about it, really, save for an odd stencil which people took for actor Jerry O'Connell. Turns out that face was the real Borf, a suicide'd friend of the artist, which became a tag for whatever struck him as wrong with the world at the moment. The Metafilter Borf-bash is rolling along, and it makes for an amusing read, as does the Washington Post article with the details.

· The Mark Of Borf [Washington Post]
· Borf is a dork [Metafilter]
· Tags / borf [flickr]

(The borf image used in the image marker for this post is from glueslabs' filcker gallery.)