Cameraphone Follies

Impromptu photos of odd or ridiculous things I encounter

billboard

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clean-dirt-wanted

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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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.

When one sign doesn't stop them

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And on that absurd note, I take my leave of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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You know, just… pop it in the mail slot.

Dickens Box

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Progress?

That landlord up the street has another vacancy, but apparently it doesn’t have any of those cool walking closets:

1 bedrom

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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