Vanity License Plates

I think of vanity license plates a little like tattoos – it’s almost impossible to find a single idea that is so important and timeless it won’t look a bit silly after some time.

Bragging about your job on Wall Street is a little foolish when the market tanks (especially if it’s attached to your sweet ride [it’s a Maserati] – it’ll make me [for one] wonder if you’ve made your latest payment).

I saw this one (on the bottom) shortly after noticing the Maserati – the only interpretation I can get from it is “GM stocks” –it’s on a GM car. But considering the shape the car industry is in, it’s not a great thing to brag about right now (I hope his pension isn't at risk).

People in the neighborhood

You never know who you might run into on the streets of Chicago on a sunny fall weekend.




Monks.

Sailors with Big Gulps.

Men painting a building high up on a scaffold.

Construction workers taking a lunch break.

A construction worker welding a beam in the middle of the street.

Young men playing cricket.

A freight train on the el?







This is why I like living in the city, and why I always travel with a camera.

Pretty flowers

A beautiful day to go for a walk and take pictures of pretty flowers! But winter is in the air...

Marketing that makes you go, hmmm.

I can't understand what knowing about tequila has to do with knowing the etymology of "Windy City." If it were beans rather than tequila that might have some connection, but tequila? I don't get it.


Advertising Michigan vacations on the side of a Chicago tour bus? It's a big, billboard-like space, granted, but why not advertise Chicago vacations on the side of a Chicago tour bus? Are they trying to make the tourists who chose Chicago over Michigan regret their decision?

Everything crashes but Coke.

On the day of the worst stock market crash since the Great Depression I tried to get a picture of the tickers in the window of the ETrade office on Wacker. What had me so puzzled was that with every single other stock posting a decline, why was Coke posting positive? I would have thought that during a crash like that the only companies that would be faring well would be Anheuser Busch or Bacardi (getting a picture to document this was a little tough, but I tried).