re: #127 Blind Frog Belly White

The MAGAvan reminds me of a crazy person who used to be around here* , whom Mrs. FBW and I called “The Paragraph Lady”. She’d set up on the corner of two very busy streets, with 3 to 4 3’x4’ signs, completely covered in 2” tall writing. Absolutely no way anyone could read it, certainly not while driving by. At some point, perhaps because the black-on-white signs didn’t seem to be working, she went to silver-on-white. You can imagine how well THAT worked!

Anyway, the obsessive need to cover as much as possible with images so small they can’t even be really seen from any distance made me think of her. I imagine they think if they just add this next bit of information, everyone will see that they’re right!

*(for Peninsulans, she hung out at Ralston and El Camino in Belmont)

There was a guy in Pittsburgh back in the 1970’s, forget his name, who would walk around the downtown area wearing sandwich boards. They held a huge amount of ranting about how the Post Office was stealing all his mail. But there was never anything hostile about this guy. Just complaints about victimhood.

Pittsburgh has a small town feel about it, lots of folks would have friendly chats with him. Since his hygiene was an issue, many of the chats were, necessarily short.

Later I found out he had a wife and children in a local suburb.