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October 10, 2005
  • Reviews of David Clement's beautiful survey of Detroit vernacular art, Talking Shops and Timothy Beal's theological explorations of Roadside Religion.

    September 5, 2005
    Bottle-cap monument in Stevens Point, Wisconsin; Dan Pohl furniture

    August 26, 2005
    The mushroom houses of Charlevoix, Michigan

    July 29, 2005
    Great New Western Avenue Art Gallery Signs

    June 11, 2005
    Compound Ineptitude: Incompetence as Strategic Asset

    April 5, 2005

  • New photos and updates for sock monkeys, Don Knotts and the Bottle Cap Inn..

    February 23, 2005

  • A page of great new vernacular signs.

    January 16, 2005

  • Some new links: Great professional roadside photography at Meryl Truett's Thump Queen gallery; a work-in-progress documentary, World's Largest, A Documentary About Small Towns With Big Things; R.C.Tafoya's Sign Project; Duke Cahill and his environment; Shari Elf's Crochet Musem and ClassicMonkey.com; just wonderful weirdness at Cyberusser.

    December 31, 2004

  • New review: Gary Fine's Everyday Genius

    October 16, 2004

  • Spectacular new examples of vernacular art from the Western Avenue Art Gallery.

    July 19, 2004

  • New master works of Prosaic Art in The Gyros Project. Plus new and updated images for Central Gyros, Mr. Gyros, CND Gyros and, elsewhere in Roadside Art Online, Greenbriar Pharmacy.

    July 4, 2004

  • Outside the Lines: The Art of Popular Craft, who really makes most of the art, and shots from the Intuit show.

    June 12, 2004

  • New reviews: Vernacular Visionaries, a collection of essays that isn't really about vernacular art but is nonetheless excellent, and Extraordinary Interpretations, Gary Monroe's survey of Florida self-taught artists.

    January 13, 2004

  • New reviews: Readymades, Jeff Brouws' photographic explorations of the vernacular landscape, and Tin Men, Archie Green's study of a different vernacular.

    October 31, 2003

  • New additions to the Food section of the Western Avenue and Vicinity Art Gallery.

    October 19, 2003

  • New additions to the Beauty Parlor section of the Western Avenue and Vicinity Art Gallery.

    October 6, 2003

  • New reviews: Sock Monkeys (200 out of 1,863), Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations, Videos: The Quilts of Gees Bend, The Highwaymen.

    September 1, 2003

  • Two cases of eponymism undaunted, and some more great names: Alkie's Liquor Store, Boring Drugs, Al's Fun in the Bun, Cruisin' Chubby's Gentleman's Club, Imperial House of Glass Blocks, Burning Stoves & Stuff, Ho-Hum Motel, Beaver Cleaners

    August 27, 2003

  • 40 new Grog & Groc Hall of Fame winners: A Happy Store, A Lee Inn, Addictions To Go, Ash Wipes Chimney Sweeps, B-Back Again, Beaver Liquors, Big Bone Lick State Park, Booze & Bait, Chi Wa Ga Ga, Dehart's Bible and Tire Center, Dicks Liquor, Doggy Style, Donuts and Gyros, Doolittle and Dalley, Dull Funeral Home, Freindly Liqour (Yes, front of his store), Funny Cry Happy Gift, Goodbody Mortuary, Hiram's Guns & Spirits, It'll Do Motel, Jiffy Smog, Kitty Frisk, Master bait and tackle (you can't beat our bait), Neen Savage (and nearby Neen Sollers), Pass Gas, Penney Fence Erection Company, Piddle-in-the-Hole (near Wyre Piddle), Prison View Party Store, S&M Supply Co., Sam-n-Ella's River Club, Simply Smog, Smog Hut, Terminal Subs, The Big Time Dallas, The Liquor Box, The Lord Jesus Christ if I be Lifted Up Chair Caning and Variety Store, Tooth and Nail, Toss-Up's restaurant, Yeah Shanghai

    July 11, 2003

  • The American mansard roof, a symbol of fast-service schlock and misdirected suburban taste, is being treated kindly by the passage of time

    July 3, 2003

  • Why aren't you there? My new domain: foggiestnotion.com
  • New outsider links: Wisconsin environment saver the Kohler Foundation, K.S. Artgallery, Hill of Crosses a folk-religious site in Lithuania, Rudy Rotter, Sid Boyum, Les Bâtisseurs De L'imaginaire which features environments, Artraw and Artesian Arts a Scottish magazine.

    March 11, 2003

  • Another Vietnam? Maybe. But definitely another America: More on the looming war

    March 8, 2003

  • Nice people are nuisances
  • Spongebob's core emotional triad echoes nothing so much as the anxiety-ridden three-way of the original Star Trek

    Jan. 19, 2003

  • Four theses on current affairs
  • A new round of gyros signs

    Jan. 11, 2003

  • Review: Outsider photography

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