We were watching the neurasthenic coven of racially inappropriate gender traitors on RuPaul’s Drag Race, for which we subscribed to OutTV and have a TiVo Season Pass and of which we watch every episode. I hit Pause at what turned out to be just the right moment and got this:
It’s the checkerboard pattern of RuPaul’s NASCAR-manqué(e) flags. So help me God, I instantly flashed back to the cover of the Cars’ Panorama (I even flashed on the title):
I recall many visits to the Radioland store, situated in one face of an oddball freestanding pod at Champlain Place, where I would ritually pull this album out from the bin and admire it, along with the other LPs during the brief period in which the Cars were a graphic-design band. Its use of Eurostile, a trademark type treatment the band would abandon, would be right back in vogue today.
I was shocked at the speed at which this typographic memory hit me. What do other boys remember from their teenage years, I wonder? I’m gonna speculate I am not the only one with instant recall for album covers.
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