‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive.
Everyone is braced for audience attack and opens their posts with four paragraphs
explaining why the remaining four paragraphs are worth reading’

Archive for July 2006

   (2006.07.18)

Free City of Leslieville update: We got inside a building!

   (2006.07.17)

She’s got rings on her fingers, bells on her toes, bells across the backlight of her Smart.

(Solarization applied.)

   (2006.07.17)

Cursive, blackletter caps, and Chinese

   (2006.07.16)
Flap opens out of side of CTV van to reveal a switchboard from which a single blue cable trails
   (2006.07.16)

An actual citation for this obscure word

   (2006.07.14)

Is marrying two gay penguins in absentia in any way like burning them in effigy?

   (2006.07.14)

The first, and sole, air-conditioned streetcar in Toronto. And it’s only a test

   (2006.07.13)

I wonder if there is anyone left who is still unwilling to call a dumpster a dumpster (with or without audible initial capital or trailing registered-trademark sign).

Dumpster on lawn outside of house reads NEON in green letters on the yellow upper half and yellow letters on the green lower half

(Q.v.)

← Later entries ¶ Earlier entries →

Values you enter are stored and may be published.

  

Search for very early blog entries, and for anything else on fawny.org:

  

Information

Other reading

FriendFeed puts everything in one place.

Popular topics

Photographs to look at · Typography; graphic design; the death of design criticism · Leslieville · TTC · Canadian English · Accessibility

Archives by date

Just add /year/month/day/ to the end of site’s URL, blog.fawny.org. You can add just /year/month/, or just /year/, if you wish. Years are four-digit, month and day two-digit (with padding zero below 10). For example:

Very old archives are still available.

Archives by category

Copyright © 2004–2012. All rights reserved.

You enjoy fawny.blog