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Category Archives: vanitas

vanitrash

By Antoine | Published: November 10, 2008
So the other morning I thought of a vanity plate I might like. UNIQUE2 Though now that I think of it, that joke could get old very quickly. Anyway, I checked on it. UNIQUE{1-9} are all taken. Also, I saw the Sex and the City movie. It is a culturally and morally bankrupt travesty, a [...]
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cosmic alignment of whatnot

By Antoine | Published: June 7, 2007
You might recognize this license plate from The Interloper, chapter three, where Owen mentions having seen it on Palm Canyon Drive. I didn’t make it up. I saw it, back in high school, in Palm Springs, and it made me laugh. For some reason I remembered it and stuck it in my novel almost twenty [...]
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camouflage

By Antoine | Published: May 20, 2007
Some of you commented that my most recent post was your favorite. Either you like to watch state officials in their youth smoking weed, or you are naturally drawn to the aesthetics of the cameraphone picture. I’m going to roll the dice that it’s the latter. First of all, loyal readers know that I’ve half-assedly [...]
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Westside license plate of the day

By Antoine | Published: September 12, 2006
Spotted this one in the Vicente Foods parking lot yesterday, in Brentwood: An exciting moment for me, because I’ve seen this plate go through several cars over the past few years, and this was the first time I got a glimpse of the driver, the eponymous dynamite wife.
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westside license plate of the day

By Antoine | Published: August 29, 2006
On the largest of Lexus SUV’s:
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westside license plate of the day

By Antoine | Published: August 22, 2006
Spotted today on a sparkling BMW 7 series: Driving a hooptie? I guess Jesus hates you. [thanks to the ACME licensemaker]
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