i didn’t want to suggest we get a local to write in “daphny” but how could it not cross my mind
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In contrast to my racist Pennsylvania hometown, Baltimore has some great mascots
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Was wondering if you’d chime in with some B-more excellence. Had a crush on the Utz girl when I was like 5 years old and around the same time met the Oriole Bird in person at Memorial Stadium and considered them a personal friend for a while. Still a fav
Kept an eye out on the town today and found this guy at Rancho Bravo in Wallingford
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not a mascot but I noticed this condo complex across the street from Artist & Craftsman Supply
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Forgot I had this photo on my phone… Big Rice is a restaurant up in the San Gabriel valley here in the LA area and their mascot is a big, you know, rice. Every time we pass this place I lose my mind
No, I do not understand what is going on with its face/mouth area either
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WOAH!
What if Al Hirschfeld dropped acid and meditated on the word “rice”
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It’s so weird and surreal… I think the red dots are supposed to be a rosy glow on its pendulous Rice Cheeks and the weird swirl is supposed to be a beard? But when I look at it I can ONLY see the red dots as maddened eyes and the swirl as some incomprehensible mouth
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I see the swirl as a satisfied exhale because that fucker is eating his family
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my initial reading was to see the w as two closed eyes
but then ive no idea what the red dotted things are suppsed to be
oh, i think ive worked it out, the swirl and the part under it are supposed to be the rice (?) in a short cylindrical container, resting upon the body of this BIG RICE. so the red dots are rosy cheeks, the w is a pleased mouth and the strokes above are closed, happy eyes (?)
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oh yeah the cheeks and eyes were always obvious to me. i see his hands now hes holding a rice cake or a sushi roll or something
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I think the idea is “make it confusing enough that people have to stop and think about what it is, and debate it with their friends, and before they know it, they’re all hungry for some BIG RICE”
It’s marketing genius
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yeah was gonna say that the only mascots i can remember in Massapequa are all real tone deaf native american stuff. i hear the school is “very proud” to still call their teams “the chiefs” these days. guess the gradual transition from old-money wasps to small-business owners and wall st psychos has made the town more aggressively conservative these days.
anyway yeah when i was like 3 i always loved seeing that huge statue
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They have, at least, gotten rid of the giant “chief” mural on the side of the bagel shop next to the high school (or whatever that shop is)
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When Neo Rude was born the ward office gave us a baby book about Starman of the Yokohama DeNA Baystars:
Google Image search informs me, leans over, it’s chapy
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Been seeing this absolute unit on trucks around here lately.
The trucks used to just have the name on them so looks like Frank decided to spice things up a bit this year
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Went back to the farmer’s market in an attempt to find the full banner of the angry broccoli mascot and was unable to find it. They may have retired the broccoli!
However on one of the food tents I WAS able to locate yet another rice themed mascot with an incredible slogan… No Rice, No Life
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Found this cheerful pipe cleaner on a car earlier this week. I’ve been bike commuting for the last few weeks and I’m constantly seeing new mascots I do not have time to photograph… this guy was on an empty street so I had time to stop and take a picture. I’ve seen this truck around a few times before… I really want to catch the operator sometime and ask them why they have this mascot
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that Robby looks like he roots alright, amirite cobbers
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