A Small Town Girl's Guide » Sculpture http://smalltowngirlsguide.com A Small Town Girl's Guide to Life in Small Town Missouri Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Smalltown Sinclair Dinosaur http://smalltowngirlsguide.com/2009/smalltown-sinclair-dinosaur/ http://smalltowngirlsguide.com/2009/smalltown-sinclair-dinosaur/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:04:40 +0000 MilliGFunk http://smalltowngirlsguide.wordpress.com/?p=752 Driving to Jefferson City a few weeks ago for work, I passed through a very small Missouri town, the name of which I promptly forgot. On the roof of what appeared to be a normal residential home, however, sat a Sinclair dinosaur.

(Sinclair, for those of you not from the Midwest, is a gas station chain whose trademark is a green dinosaur.)

Behold, the bizarre small town Missouri rooftop Sinclair dinosaur:

Rooftop Dino, photo by smalltowngirl

Rooftop Dino, photo by smalltowngirl

]]> http://smalltowngirlsguide.com/2009/smalltown-sinclair-dinosaur/feed/ 5 "Nothing" doesn't exist http://smalltowngirlsguide.com/2009/nothing-doesnt-exist/ http://smalltowngirlsguide.com/2009/nothing-doesnt-exist/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:29:45 +0000 MilliGFunk http://smalltowngirlsguide.wordpress.com/?p=180 At the beginning of this video, I was skeptical.

Part of the way into this video, I thought, “Hmmm, his art is kind of neat.”

And by the end of this video, I was inspired.

“I have learning difficulties, you know I can’t read or write. I had to find a way to express myself…the teachers at school made me feel small, so they made me feel like ‘nothing’. I’m trying to prove to the world that ‘nothing’ doesn’t exist.”

What a great reminder that everyone brings something to this world. Check it out:

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