Seems like a good time to devote a post exclusively to my studies of the semiological underpinnings of Homo Sapiens Portlandialithicus. Mostly because I've found some good (if occasionally perplexing) stuff around town, including a beautiful metal leaf art project wrapped around a telephone pole not far from PSU. And if you're wondering about the second to last shot (it's a dumpster), well, it just seemed like the perfect marriage of bureaucratic perfunctoriness and the kind of art that happens when things get scraped, dinged, and tagged by competing owners.