Signs and Wonders

Oct 17

This is on 3rd Ave — somewhere in the low 80s, I think.
Phrenology is the next block down.

This is on 3rd Ave — somewhere in the low 80s, I think.

Phrenology is the next block down.

Sep 23

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Sep 15

I have no idea whether this dude is liberal or conservative, but I read his slogan and totally think Minority Report.

I have no idea whether this dude is liberal or conservative, but I read his slogan and totally think Minority Report.

Sep 13

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Are there frozen vegetables with a cult following, I wonder? On the one hand, it’s hard to imagine why else you’d advertise them on the side of your awning.  On the other, even the tantalizing possibility that there might be hasn’t gotten me inside the store to investigate.

Are there frozen vegetables with a cult following, I wonder? On the one hand, it’s hard to imagine why else you’d advertise them on the side of your awning.  On the other, even the tantalizing possibility that there might be hasn’t gotten me inside the store to investigate.

Sep 04

Late summer evening in midtown.  I pulled out my camera phone because I thought the crescent moon right next to the Empire State Building was cheesy/cool.

Late summer evening in midtown.  I pulled out my camera phone because I thought the crescent moon right next to the Empire State Building was cheesy/cool.

Truth in advertising.

Truth in advertising.

“Rhianna come look! This chick has Burberry nails!  Damn, that shit is gangsta!”

—Hispanic girl to her friend, about the fingernails of an embarrassed-looking Asian girl, last night on the R train.

Aug 28

I’m guessing that the the SC on the breast of the chicken pictured here stands for “super chicken.” And that’s cool.  I like him!  I certainly don’t want to eat him!  But I like him!
Or maybe it’s that the name of the actual business? The name that has three of the four syllables of the very last word you want to be thinking about when you eat chicken? Seems like an odd oversight for a dude in the chicken business.

I’m guessing that the the SC on the breast of the chicken pictured here stands for “super chicken.” And that’s cool.  I like him!  I certainly don’t want to eat him!  But I like him!

Or maybe it’s that the name of the actual business? The name that has three of the four syllables of the very last word you want to be thinking about when you eat chicken? Seems like an odd oversight for a dude in the chicken business.