Why Don't We Do It On The Road?

Jennifer Hunt and Dan Baritchi claim to offer "The Best & Most Popular Love and Sex Advice Column on the Internet Today..." So what do you these days, when you have a popular website? Publish a book! (Whatever happened to the Internet replacing the printed word?) Their new book, 1,001 Best Places to Have Sex in America: A When, Where, and How Guide, purports to offer tips to broaden the reader’s "horny horizons".

A careful examination of the cover (which is the extent of the book review you are going to get here) reveals that the best places to have sex are in Georgia, on a desert mesa, on the Golden Gate Bridge, on a water tower, in the Statue of Liberty, on a Ferris Wheel, and at a Drive-In theatre. (Hmm, two out of seven for me...TMI)

I'm not sure I want to know what they do with "hot spot stickers."

Via Breakup Girl

The Map Realm: The Fictional Road Maps of Adrian Leskiw

Adrian Leskiw is a self-described "avid map collector and roadgeek". He loves road maps so much, he can't get enough of them, so he creates his own road maps of imaginary places:



The island nation of Breda is:

...located somewhere in the south Pacific and was most likely a British colony at one time and consequently roundabouts and European interchange designs are prevalent. The nation's roads are divided into five classes and each one is identified by it's own unique color-coded signage. Motorways are blue, primary highways are green, secondary highways are red, regional roads are yellow, and local roads are white. Motorways are identified by the label Mx beside the international symbol for limited-access highways, primary and secondary highways are identified by a black on yellow Australian-style shield affixed on the appropriate background color, and regional and local roads are referred to by name or primary destinations...

...etc.



I love these maps. I'll be planning my next holiday in Breda...

Via The Geo Lounge

Cool Dad

Happy Father's Day from my kids.

Do they know their old man or what?

Coffee mug with road map with Colorado and Wyoming.

In addition of my love of maps and map memorabilia... I also love my cats. I promise this will not become a "cat blog", but you may be subjected, from time to time, with photos of my cats.

This one is Leela.

Maps in Advertising

As I mentioned in my first post, finding this ad in a magazine really caught my eye:



Obviously, it is not a literal "road map", but the metaphor of a road map is that the customers of this Lexis-Nexis product will be able to find their way through complex information sources, without getting lost. Anyone who has ever used a road map to navigate through unknown territory should be able to relate to this ad, especially if you're the type that doesn't like to ask for directions...

When I saw this ad (1991?) I was not so familiar with the Lexis-Nexis corporation, or Ohio geography. So, I didn't appreciate at the time that they were using an Ohio road map. The floppy disk map includes Dayton where their U.S. corporate headquarters are located.


A map of the world, or a globe, are other common themes for advertising:

I guess it wouldn't be Christmas without a Bacardi drink



Obviously the advertisers are not using the globe as a way to indicate which planet they are on...

CS First Boston is rather transparent in their intentions

Perhaps they want to indicate their "global presence"...

Of course, MCI is now part of Verizon

or that their product is useful to everyone on the planet...

Does mean that CIBA is part of the Flat Earth Society?
and sometimes, it's just silly.

An Everlasting Piece, 2000, directed by Barry Levinson. Has anyone ever seen this film?