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.)

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