Mighty Bob

Magic, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

Saw these guys hitched up near Loyola Beach in magical Rogers Park, Chicago.

Except for Intersectionyms, my favorite shop signs in Chicago are those which incorporate several non-English languages, especially if such languages are written in non-Roman script.

When you add bunny slaughter to the mix, you’ve won my heart, mind… and stomach!

“If I didn’t know this was hassenpfeffer, I’d swear it was a carrot!”

Here we see English, Spanish, and what I presume to be Arabic (but possibly Farsi or another language written in an Arabic script). In the window is Vietnamese, which since the 1600s has been written in a Roman script modified by a truckload of beautiful, almost musical diacritics necessary to represent the tonality of the language. All the bunnies and chicks in the window could lead an illiterate Christian to believe this was an Easter goods store. (But it isn’t.)

From the May Dreamhost Newslettery:

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Sometimes when a contest isn’t going the way you’d like, you, like
Hillary Clinton, may wish you could go back to the beginning and restore
things to the way they were. One big magic do-over, that’s all she asks.

Psht, that sort of thing may work in politics, but it doesn’t works with
web sites hosted at DreamHost… UNTIL NOW!

It’s messages like this from my webhosting provider that keep me shelling out the $100 per annum (even though there’s no support to help me photoblog from iPhone to WordPress). Keep it up guys!

View my page on Believers In The Power of Metal

(In all honesty I am not metal enough to really join this social networking site, but thanks to Jacob for passing it on.)

I had a copy checked out from the library (very clearly marked “Mayfair Branch, Chicago Public Library”) that I’ve left somewhere, neither at home nor the office. I only have 6 weeks left to find it and return it or pay a hefty replacement fine. Even worse, it’s probably the best novel I’ve read since - well, possibly since ever - and I’d like to finish it if possible. Holla back!

UPDATE: You can stop searching your house for it.  I found it in a box of pamphlets in the office. (Stupid Old Irving Park Assn!)

Are they selling a service? Or a commodity?

I went with Sam-o-Rama (or is it Sam O’Rama?) to Cal’s Liquors to see Plastic Crimewave.  Under the part of the bar that flips up like a drawbridge so staff can pass through was this amazing flyer, which raises many questions:

I had trouble photographing it until the nice guy who runs Cal’s, seeing me struggle, came over and turned on a reading light.

A closer look at the breaking news:

“…expressed a wish to go to the river with a fishing rod. He liked
fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid
occupation.”

-Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

At Lawrence and Springfield.  The smudgy parts of the pic are actually raindrops on the bus window out of which I was shooting.

[Intersectionym: A name for a building or business derived from the cross streets at or near which it is situated, esp. in Chicago.]