Impromptu photos of odd or ridiculous things I encounter
Tags: advertising, beer, billboard, hypocrisy, sign
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.
Tags: (in)humanity, college, Irvine, Orange County, sign
If this blog has revealed only one significant thing this year (which may indeed be the case), it is that we Americans have a serious problem with sign composition.
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That landlord up the street has another vacancy, but apparently it doesn’t have any of those cool walking closets:
The urge to bring out the scorn cudgel is almost overwhelming… but it feels too easy. If I can’t say something nice, yadda yadda yadda…
You know what? Very nice handwriting.
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