Cameraphone Follies: Dirty Sign in Irvine

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The mindset represented by this sign is what I mean when I refer to the Orange County city of Irvine as a soulless, planned-community hellscape. If I hadn’t spent 90% of my waking hours at the area’s one oasis of culture, the UCI Fine Arts village, I’d never have stayed there for four years.

Full disclosure: I took this picture in 1993, a little bit before the advent of the cameraphone. Still, I think any reasonable person will agree that it qualifies as a folly. This little roadside want ad stayed up for at least a week or two, which gave me plenty of time to remember to throw my camera in my bag before the next time I drove by.

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Derek is a Californian actor, writer, blogger, coffee epicure and dog person. More about him and the raison d'etre of this blog can be read at http://cheekandbluster.com/about/ and his online shenanigans can be at least partly tracked at http://twitter.com/InstaDerek .
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