You may know Scootie’s. You know, the convenience store by The U of M and RP Tracks. We used to buy kegs there. There used to be an impressive collection of fake IDs taped to the bulletproof glass. Yeah, that one. Anyway, I walked there Sunday to buy a Commercial Appeal. For the NYT crossword (which I summarily destroyed, thank you very much). And I walked past a poster pasted on the inside of the store’s window, facing out. It’s the white one on the left. Here, you can see it in the window, easily missed, I imagine.
But if you get closer, it’s quite interesting. The inks have smeared against the glass and created a piece of art out of that tacky poster. Looks a bit like this…
This morning, while I was in the area (Starbucks on Poplar is surprisingly empty at 7:30 a.m., I discovered), I swung past with my camera. The clouds were still hanging in the early morning sky, so I hope you don’t mind that I boosted these in Lightroom a bit to better convey what I see when I look at the poster in person. The world needs more accidentally beautiful things. (More photos here.)
