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Book cover: Bizarre Bazaars: Weird, Wacky and Just Plain Embarrassing Business Names From the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame Bizarre Bazaars: Weird, Wacky and Just Plain Embarrassing Business Names From the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame

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Roadside Art Online

Featuring: Downstate Beauties

Roadside art: Beauties from Downstate Illinois It's a gallery out there
The Western Avenue Art Gallery: Chicago's best signs Revenge of the mansards Grog N Groc Hall of Fame: Strange store names Classic signs Roadside ruins The Gyros Project: Art on every corner Eccentric environments Junk food Various roadside vistas Postcard motels 100+ roadside art links 100 Best Signs from Roadside Art Online Little Grills Lodging
Lone Mansard Sign Gyros Project Roadside business names Sty. Eom 3K JPG Signs 4K JPG Vintage Motels Western Avenue Art Gallery

The Outsider Art Pages

Featuring: Reviews: Martin Ramirez, Bill Traylor

Book Review: Follies of Europe The art of popular crafts Howard Finster's garden Environments Metal work mastery Stan Szwarc galleries Chicago's lakefront gallery Sock monkeys Jim Sudduth Folk art in the city 40,000 Murphy Bottle-cap art The Bottle Cap Inn Prison art Florida folk Fabulous furniture What is outsider art? Ominous needlepoint Anonymous portrait gallery Reviews

40,000 Murphy phot collage The Art of Popular Crafts Chicago Lakefront stone carving Bottle cap art Prison art Sock Monkey Experience Stanley Szwarc metal work galleries Anonymous portrait Joe's Bottle Cap Inn Howard Finster painting

The Idea Barn

Featuring: Root Beer Redux: 2008 Taste Test Results

Dad's Root Beer matchbook cover Also: Their crackpot ideas, and mine
Compound Ineptitude: Incompetence as a Strategic Asset The evil nice I live in a fog Iraq, Korea and the Democratic wimps Why life is better now I hate sports The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise Frank Capra: It's a pretty grim life, actually Leave It To Beaver lies Jack Chick, tractmaster The miracle pepper! Street Apocalypse Bad things happen to prompt people Bad news for Barbie We're all saps in cyberspace

And: Culture from the margin
Squidward, the new Spock Don Knotts, genius (and Tony Franciosa, too) Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy: The greatest comic strip ever My hero Bert Sammy Davis Root beer roundup White Castle Corner Your guide to semitrailers Notes from Paris Lackadaisical links Charming Eyesores: The Georgian Burglar Alarms of Dublin's Doors

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