Archive for March 2006

Auger or augur?    (2006.03.08)

If it is the quintessential New York story to pack up and move from Idaho to a cold-water tenement and a life in the theatre, and if it is the quintessential British story to leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case –

– then surely it is the quintessential Toronto story to ride one’s bicycle in mid-winter past a lakefront beach barely dappled with snow only to encounter a disused front-end loader with rear auger attachment hiked up on its haunches on the sand.

Notes from street-furniture session    (2006.03.07)

Notes from street-furniture session, Metro Hall, 2006.03.06

Heckled    (2006.03.06)

One’s esteemed colleague and I just got back from the Toronto street-furniture “consultation.” I pointed out, in a rather poor one-minute presentation, that mismatched typography was a problem and that solving it would be tricky because all the good Toronto type designers have fled to other cities.
WANKER BEHIND ME: So when are you leaving?
Nice.
I won’t [...]

‘My Jolly Corner’    (2006.03.05)

What does Guy Maddin have to say in Film Comment’s “My Jolly Corner”?

Gutted    (2006.03.05)

After WGBH and NCI gutted one office each of their captioning operations, let me just ask you a question: Are you sure you want to emerge victorious in a race to the bottom?

Backlog    (2006.03.04)

Not as bad as the last time, but still rather formidable.

Light-reading-for-a-Saturday-night kind of thing.

Stealth milquetoast    (2006.03.02)

In a previous era, I was able to photograph the rarest of police vehicles, the stealth cruiser (reproduced here).

Sort of like putting a studded collar on an accountant, it is now possible to photograph a stealth minivan.