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Strange Things On The Road

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This past weekend my wife and I were out for a drive on some of the more rural back roads of Illinois. We were in southeast Grundy county, on (You always were an asshole…) Gorman road, when we spotted the post in the pictures above.

Attached to this wooden post in the middle of nowhere, from bottom to top, are a large catfish head, a bird leg and foot (probably turkey, but maybe pheasant – do I look like an ornithologist to you?), a fox tail, another catfish head, and finally the remains of a stuffed pheasant, which I assume was at one time perched on top in its full glory.

I will never understand art. Especially when it should be accompanied by banjo music.