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Entries Tagged as 'signs'

Cheap lunch (Everywhere a sign #19)

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Also on the menu at El Mexicano on 20th Street South in Birmingham:
“Fish filets available individually – only $350!”

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Body Piercing Saved My Life (Everywhere a sign #18)

September 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This car emblem was spotted in the parking lot of the main post office in downtown Birmingham today.

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From I-5 Southbound (Everywhere a sign #17)

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Southbound on Interstate 5, on the way to Reunion Event #1 in San Diego.

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Everywhere a sign #16

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Stop!…Hammer time.

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Everywhere a sign #15

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Stop, collaborate, and listen.

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Everywhere a sign #14

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

This sign was on a street corner in San Diego’s Old Town, but I also saw one of these – graffitoed a bit less artfully and more sloppily – at an intersection across the street from the entrance to a cemetary in Oceanside.

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Everywhere a sign #13

June 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sign over the swimsuit water extractor, Downtown Branch of Birmingham YMCA.

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The Essential Willie Dylan (Everywhere a sign #12)

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

That particular year, our friends at Sony were also excited, seeing as they are the purveyors of the entire back catalogs of both of these legendary artists. They put together a banner, taller than any man, to hang in our front window.

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Harlem, Georgia (Everywhere a sign #11)

February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Passing back through Harlem, I kept a lookout for the museum. I stopped at the traffic light in the center of town. Ahead of me, on the right, I could see that there were still Christmas garlands hanging on the side of the police station. One of the taller brick buildings – two stories – had a graffiti-style collage of Stan and Ollie painted on its entire southern side. Three pairs of grinning faces kept watch over a fenced-in used car lot.

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Everywhere a sign #9: Revisited

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I had been driving by this billboard on my way to work almost daily for the past month, before its method seemed to !POP! in my head. You see, I had noticed the apparently unclad woman, the St. Vincent’s logo, and the word cancer, and assumed that the billboard was promoting the hospital’s breast cancer center. Very recently, I realized that there was nothing on the billboard that indicated a focus on breast cancer at all!

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