Here's another mural in the Hyde Park neighborhood. This one is on the side of a locally-owned and highly popular bakery/coffee shop called Captain Quackenbush's. ("Captain Quackenbush's Intergalactic Expresso & Dessert Company" to be exact.)
Their original location was on the Drag, near The University of Texas at Austin. I never understood why it was "Captain" Quackenbush's until I saw this mural explicating the myth. (Click on the photo for bigger version.)
Here we see a duck who is trying to lead a coffee cup/ship full of other cartoon characters against a Loch Ness style monster rising out of the sea. (His pals are abandoning the ship.) My guess - the symbolism here is that you need caffeine to withstand the monsters of reality. Whatever. Works for me.
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