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There were no ads in the West 4th Street subway station last week, at least when I walked through it. Those big blocks of black had an impressively calming effect on the place. I hadn’t noticed how much “noise” all those ads put out, visually speaking, until they were missing. I wish they’d stay missing!

Yours truly,

A ninety year old

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Nope.

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I saw this on the way to Tabitha’s place. It’s the exclamation point that really sells me on it. Although maybe, now that I think about it — an exclamation point would make any store name pleasantly ridiculous.

• Whole Foods!
• Virgin Records!
• Duane Reade!

Or is the just slightly too long wording that makes things funny?

• I Could Use Some Whole Foods
• Who Doesn’t Like Virgin Records?
• Wouldn’t Mind Stopping At Duane Reade

It’s both, probably.

This post made me realize I don’t go to a lot of stores.

3 Comments | Tags: comics, duane reade, signs, tabitha

This van is parked on my street near a major gas pipe repair project. The stark Helvetica front makes this look like a state agency.  Or a van of Thought Police. Or a bloodmobile from Scandinavia.

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That movie was great! Maybe the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen. A blast.

Still, let’s not ignore the awesome intro to the 60s cartoon Iron Man (and cell phone music of Terence Howard in the movie). Thanks Kevin for digging this up.

And as Kevin tells you in his blog post, The Hulk’s 60s theme song is worth a listen, too. “Ain’t he un-glamma-rays?”

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Goodness gracious, everyone! It’s a new Sue Galloway video!

This was a sketch in Sue’s one-woman show (which goes up again this Friday 6:30pm at UCBT, by the by). It’s very funny, and Sue and I assumed it would be easy and painless to film and edit. It was painless to film (maybe not so much for Sue as she did 9 unbroken takes of this) but editing was… well, maybe not tough, but not quick. Let’s just say it was tough so the story doesn’t get too wishy-washy. Nine improvised takes does not make for easy cuts. But we figured it out.

Thanks to waiter Brandon for securing the [...]

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