Coming to a Town Near You...Big Concrete Obama Noggin

Obviously these people are hoping to glue this thing to Mt. Rushmore when they're done. What a bunch of hammerheads.

President Barack Obama's concrete head rested peacefully on an open-bed trailer outside Vino Vino wine bar on Guadalupe Street on Sunday evening. The 20-foot-tall sculpture of the president had just been hauled from Houston.

Its creator, 82-year-old artist David Adickes, is traveling with the 3½-ton bust, and grinned as he looked at the head that was parked on the street.

The sculpture began a 30-city tour Friday in Pearland, near Houston, and will end up in Presidents Park near Deadwood, S.D., joining the 42 other giant presidential busts Adickes has already made. He said he hopes to make it to Mount Rushmore by June 18 before taking it to the park he owns. Other cities on the tour include Fort Worth, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee.


People walking by the head on Guadalupe Street immediately whipped out their cell phone cameras for pictures. "It does make me laugh," said Herbert Taylor, 38. "A very big head of anything is silly and funny."

"They can talk to them and touch them," he said.