Ah, a breath of fresh air after driving through the state of my birth and the states immediately north and south thereof. Sam and I had a nice walk this morning through our neighborhood and down to the park, and we passed dozens of vehicles creatively registering their discontent with the current administration—and even one that said “God is not a Republican…or a Democrat.” Not only would a supreme being not by definition be on your side, I seriously doubt he or she is registered to vote, and if you’ve formed a comfortable fantasy that Jesus is cosmically tampering with Diebold voting machines to assure that the righteous triumph, perhaps you have a particularly warped view of how busy his calendar is.
As a designer, I thought this was a particularly nice piece of iconography. Yes, the phrase represented by the acronym starts with “Impeach the…” and ends with “..Already!” And speaking of peaches (I’m remembering a Robert Grossman comic drawn for New York Magazine in the impeachment season of 1974, but never mind), it’s good to see that even some Republicans might have enough issue with the attorney general that they’d go after him with the legislative branch’s supreme eject button. I’m gonna have to look up which other members of the executive are subject to impeachment…might be quite a party.
Nice to be home.
May 31st, 2006 at 8:54 pm
hey!
i take it sammy is either your wife or girlfriend and is from the great state of michigan (gathered that from your previous entry).
why not ask her how she’s feel about remembering a web site called thedetroitchannel.com vs. having to remember call letters.com when she evidently resides some 750 miles or more from “home”?
now, take that and extrapolate it to cities nationwide and then worldwide and tell me which would be more cumbersome to recall.
thanks.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:39 pm
The previous comment is from someone commenting on my post way the hell over here…just in case you’re a bit baffled.
At any rate, to reply:
Hard to remember WXYZ? She still talks about listening to CKLW as a kid.
People remember great classic sets of call letters, and wsb.com, kgw.com, wbns.com, and so on are way, way fewer letters to type.
Thus, I really, really don’t like those cumbersome themumblemumblechannel.com domains.
June 1st, 2006 at 9:00 am
as a guest on your turf i’ll try to keep this cordial.
wxyz is a great example (thank you!). i’ll leave it to the reader to speculate WHY detroitchannel.com just happens to resolve there!
and kcci? (noticed them as one of your thumbnails) might want to check on how things are going since they rebranded from theiowachannel.com ; are numbers actually flat to even down slightly??? again the reader must speculate if the move did not double their numbers overnight was it worth trading unlimited upside for the status quo?
cumbersome? heck yes.
but it works!