I saw this:

And I thought of this:

It’s for Runners World.  Tell me those gams ain’t running all the way to 2012!
Also, can that possibly be real?  The shadow of the wall sconce and Palin’s own shadow don’t make any sense.  Shitty Photoshopping, or inside joke?

James Dobson’s Letter from the Future includes a resurgent Russia reabsorbing Eastern Europe into a new Warsaw Pact. That might actually happen if the Eurovision Song Contest goes as planned. Did anyone see this? It didn’t seem to get much attention. I totally love the idea of Eurovision as a forum [...]

I’m sure it dates from Spanish times, since it means “The Royal Road,” and doesn’t seem to be a post-meaning place name chosen to connote aristocracy or California-ness like so many other places.
Here are some shots of the Bay Area’s equivalent to Nassau County, New York’s Old Country Road, Seattle’s Aurora Blvd or Austin’s North [...]

That last post was boring.  This is better.
It’s the weirdest house in the neighborhood I grew up in.  Some kind of neo-Spanish style that still looks like the White House somehow.  Done up in Xmas drag, it’s some major Long Island kitsch.  The gaudiness is emphasized by drab normality of the surrounding homes (camera-shy).

RoadsideAmerica.com is seriously indispensible when driving across the benighted continent of North America.  Where else would you learn about Salem Sue, the World’s Largest Holstein Cow (who faces I-94 from a rocky outcropping near New Salem, North Dakota)?
It’s kind of a crappy website in terms of design, although not as singularly irritating as Evite.  A [...]

When we got there it was closed, but it really exists:
It reminds me, then as now, of O’Boisies, whose tagline was “O’Boisies Are O’Boisterous.”  Seemed like it was tough to fail with a campaign that merges memories of the Irish potato famine with the spud-studded home of the Aryan Nation — plus a healthy dose [...]