Rest in Peace, Borf. Rest in Peace.

Borf has plead guilty to vandalism and will help in the removal of his so-called "unwanted art." But here's the thing: what if it isn't unwanted?

Personally, I always enjoyed seeing the "vandalism" Borf strewed upon city bridges, buildings, and streets. I liked knowing that someone out there, even a teenage kid from the 'burbs, took the time to create, to express, to DO. Borf wasn't leaving racist or sexist hate speech. He wasn't leaving unrefined blobs of paint. Rather, he made finely detailed stencils. His graffiti felt more like art than vandalism to me.

Okay sure, sometimes all he (or his copycats) left was loosely scribbled white paint spelling out his name on a trash bin... But all the same, I liked knowing that somewhere out there, in the great expanse of D.C., Borf was holding a spraycan of white paint and creating new public art in this sometimes sterile city.