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Archive for August 2006

   (2006.08.10)

Now, finally, 3½ months later, you can listen to me speaking Icelandic!

   (2006.08.09)

Two-hour, third-rate, 30-year-old dubbed monster movies that are broadcast when people with real lives are out having a good time: Pop-on captioning. Current, high-profile, prime-time half-hour dramas with a rabidly loyal viewership: Scrollup captioning

   (2006.08.08)

Behold the small megabin (not quite an oxymoron; perverse official name: EcoMupi) in front of the 7-Eleven. Is it really worse than the store’s own sign?

Four-foot-high billboard with garbage receptacle on the edge sits at curb, while movable 7-Eleven sign, held down by bricks, reads SPECIAL BIG BITE HOT DOG 2 FOR $2.99

Anyway, this thing was supposed to have been removed by August 5.

   (2006.08.07)
Appliqué on driveway in front of red rollup door shows a Road Runner–like mascot in a fire helmet driving on a road running through a four-leaf clover. Two of the leaves read YONGE ST. and GROSVENOR ST. Legend reads PUMPER 314 RUNNING THE STRIP SINCE 1871

There is, in fact, no “strip” between Yonge and Grosvenor to “run.” The two streets intersect. (And hats off to you if you are one of the few Torontonians who can pronounce “Grosvenor.”)

   (2006.08.07)

If CBC doesn’t blog about captioning, then I will. And that means I set the agenda

   (2006.08.06)

Total: 3

   (2006.08.05)

Your source for “sand & grave” in the 905.

Orange pylon labelled JORDAN sits in front of brown dumpster with the legend flamer Jack’s SAND & GRAVE 905-642-5380

But don’t get any ideas beyond that.

   (2006.08.03)

When it comes to megabins, is Eucan CEO Rolando Garcia prone to error or prone to lying?

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