I'm on the way to Omaha (more on that in the next several days, I imagine) but in the meantime, I've been wandering around southeastern Minnesota.
First, a small business sign from Rushford, one of the towns along the Root River bike trail:
The place where all the serious gamers take their grimy vehicles.
Then this unfortunate billboard:
I know it's saying a lot, and some later art encounter may make me regret my hyperbole, but this struck me as the tackiest sculpture I have ever seen:
(Holiday Inn, Austin, Minnesota)
Unlike this liquor store sign, also from Austin, which is the height of humble understatement:
Finally, this logo, which I saw on a sign somewhere near Rochester:
I know I am an obstinate, oppositional reader when it comes to logos that try to use shapes as letters, but all I could think when I saw it was something like this:
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Southeastern Minnesota Miscellany
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I Googled "On & Off Sale" and just learned something -- thanks.
I always forget about that Midwestern term, and how mystifying it used to be when I first arrived. It's pretty darned illogical -- a great example of how language is just a bunch of arbitrary signs that only make sense because of social arrangements.
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