Some very laid back hand-painted Friz Quadrata. Photographed in St. Paul on February 3, 2003.

Close-up of some dimensional letters on a government building in Roseville, Minnesota, January 23, 2005.

I’ve seen typefaces like this, but this is the real thing.

Photographed October 8, 2003, St. Paul, Minnesota.

F.A.S.T., Inc., Sparta, Wisconsin, August 2, 2003. I used to see this place every time I visited my grandparents when I was little, and it’s still there. As seen in Zippy the Pinhead.

After driving past it for years, I suddenly realized what an absurd sign this is. Photo taken February 2, 2006, in the, uh, Midway area of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

A presumably unintentional contradictory message seen on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul, August 5, 2004.