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Aesthetic Luddite is a "series" where I take then post photos of signs/typography I like. Mostly old stuff.

Hamilton's Shoes
Berlin, WI

one thin dime

Baby, I stole all the money from your wallet and now I’m off. I don’t know why there’s that saying, “one thin dime” because if you think about it, dimes are much thicker even than a hundred dollar bill. Even a stack of those kinds. You were calling me names in your sleep last night. Again, I heard you slur at me. My dreams were the falling kind. Now, the light’s up again—you’re not, I am. I’ve ransacked your wallet, thinned it of everything; various widths. There wasn’t much there, certainly no hundreds. Was almost afraid I wouldn’t have enough to make it. But now I’m on the bus to work. The day’ll go quick. Today I feel it. Tonight I’ll be back, closing my eyes next to you and sleeping so deeply it’ll be like death.

Song of the day: Buck Griffin

Song of the day (1/2/2011):
Buck Griffin

Heard this song when I downloaded the Swingin' Boogie comp from Uncle Gil the other day. Thought, Damn, I haven't put up a song of the day since October. That's a lot of days. Thought, too, It's a new year, kid, let's get our head on straight and start posting songs again. Then thought, This song's nice and catchy and you should share it.

So here we are with this post. Read more about Buck Griffin, and hey, enjoy the hell out of the tune.

Buck Griffin - Let's Elope Baby (Lin).mp3

32 books for my 32nd year

I'll be be turning 32 on Sunday.

Reading is something I love but am incredible lazy at. As a way to motivate slash intimidate myself to read more, I drew up a list of 32 books to read before I turn 33.

This list includes stuff I've had on the shelves for years, classics I've never read, things I've heard are good, highlights from Donald Barthleme's syllabus, books that just looked interesting when researching on Amazon.

It's all fiction. That's where I want to focus.

These are in no particular order, but updated with an order as soon as I finish them. The list is likely to change per my whim, and I'm very whimmy. Crossed out things mean I've finished them, blue ones mean I'm currently reading. (List started Nov 7, updated Nov 26)

1. Amelia Gray - Museum of the Weird
2. Linsay Hunter - Daddy's
3. William Gass - Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
4. Leonard Michaels - Complete Stories
5. Georges Perec - Life A User's Manual
6. Thomas Pynchon - V
7. Don DeLillo - White Noise
8. William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
9. Stanley Elkin - The Magic Kingdom
   
10. Gordon Lish - Collected Fictions
11. Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
12. William Gass - Omensetter's Luck
13. Mary Robison - Tell Me
14. Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg Ohio
15. Donald Barthleme - 60 Stories
16. John Hawkes - The Lime Twig
17. Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard to Find
18. Nicole Kraus - Great House
19. Borges - Labyrinths
20. Franz Kafka - The Castle
21. Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
22. Isaac Bashevis Singer - Gimpel the Fool
23. Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
24. Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
25. Brian Evenson - Fugue State
26. Christine Schutt - Nightwork
27. Barry Hannah - High Lonesome
28. Barry Hannah - Bats Out of Hell
29. Richard Yates - The Easter Parade
30. Salvador Plascencia - The People of Paper
31. Stanley Crawford - Gascoyne
32. David Ohle - Motorman

scout ranch

Cool, informed update from one of my readers on the Boy Scouts jacket I posted about last week.

Hey, saw your post as a result of a google alert I have setup and wanted to clarify.

That jacket is a leaders coat, and people usually fill them up with patches and the like from trips and outings.

The bull is one of the older logos of Philmont Scout Ranch, a huge high adventure base in New Mexico. The other patch likely means the person whose coat that was hiked some (unlikely all) of the Appalachian trail.

Thanks, Lou!

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Aesthetic Luddite is a "series" where I take then post photos of signs/typography I like. Mostly old stuff.

Waffle House
Bloomington, IN

official jacket of the boys scouts of america

One of the best things I've found at a thrift store in a long time. Doubt I'll actually wear the thing, but couldn't pass it up.

Jacket branded as the official jacket for the Boy Scouts of America.

Can't really make sense of the patches:
- The bull would be for rodeos?
- Maine to Georgia/AT patch represents the Appalachian Trail.

Whatever the case, the events that lead up to it winding up in Racine, WI thrift store in 2010 would probably make for an interesting story.

If anyone can piece together the history of this, let me know.