Incompetence trumps intention.
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My Weekly Credo
Intelligence is no impediment to the embrace of folly.
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A reason for Blackberries
A Blackberry’s best use is for the polite avoidance of conversation in elevators.
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Bad things don’t happen to people who don’t care.
Continue readingKankakee and Waukegan: Swell Places
Some first-rate signage from the funky Chicago suburbs of Waukegan and Kankakee.
Continue readingMotel matches
Great lodging images from motel matchbooks.
Continue reading100 Best Signs From Roadside Art Online
Here’s a selection of my 100 favorite signs from the pages of Interestingideas.com’s Roadside Art Online section.
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Three great gift ideas from the pages of interestingideas.com 2008 Diner Art Calendar Gyros Project Calendar 2008 Edition Bizarre Bazaars the book: Weird, Wacky and Just Plain Embarrassing Business Names From the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame
Continue readingLittle Grills: Diner art from matchbook covers
Matchbook covers can be tiny masterpieces of vernacular commercial art. This set covers a favorite subject from the mid-20th Century, the roadside diner.
Continue readingCharacter Assassination: Colorful Apocalypse Review
The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art, by Greg Bottoms, University of Chicago Press, 200 pages, 2007. ISBN 978-0-226-06685-1 As an outsider to outsider art, Greg Bottoms is in a great position to ask uncomfortable questions that might otherwise run afoul of the field’s shibboleths and loyalties. Unfortunately, the questions he asks in this book are often as uninformed as they are discomfiting, Bottoms clearly wants to engage with artists as people, not performers or freaks. Yet he ends up reducing them to some of the very clichés that he seems to want to debunk. Early on, for example, he
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