What if there was a way to pre-register and pre-vote for your candidate of choice, and then all ads, electioneering and other useless crap directed at you would just disappear? If I have to see another crappy locally-produced TV attack spot, I’m gonna hurl. Or how about this: They make the loser go around and personally clean up all those stupid roadside signs planted on every divider, turn lane, and streetcorner.

Todd wrote this in response to my post yesterday about the Boy Scouts:

One thing Scouting wants to forget is its founder was a homosexual British imperialist who believed a paramilitary youth organization would further the cause of the waning Victorian empire.
If you ask me, I think the BSA should keep worrying about the sexual predators that seem to infiltrate their leadership ranks, not a successful Eagle Scout with non-tradional convictions.

Look here soon for a project I’m working on slowly this month: a collection of letterforms from old Baltimore. There’s a wealth of old hand-painted and commercially produced signage in town, and I’ve begun taking pictures of the stuff that strikes my eye. I’m going to arrange and catalog it, then post it for review.

How not to solicit work: I got an email this afternoon at work from “chingzkhan” with a subject line of “I have visited your site…” Upon opening it, the first line read: I have visited your site and I think that design looks not good now. Then it goes on to list their website (a template sales site) and says, Check it out! We have hired two new designers from indonesia. They rocks!

Way to go, there, captain. See how many hits you get with that.