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Archive for September 2006

   (2006.09.20)

They’re using Akzidenz-Grotesk on new Toronto streetsigns?

   (2006.09.17)
Man in yellow-and-black outfit holds a helmet in one hand and a large green canoe over one shoulder as he crosses a damp beachfront boardwalk under cloudy skies

Sadly, I missed a better photo of this fellow portag(e)ing his kayak down the residential sidestreet. Only in the Beach (or at Bondi).

   (2006.09.17)

Why settle for just L or G when you could be LGBT2SQQQBLMORMORSS&SY?

   (2006.09.15)

Why is Pride Toronto’s Web site so bad? And why is it “imperative” it stay that way?

   (2006.09.14)

But your typical newspaperman wouldn’t be caught dead on something as girly as a scooter.

Silve and red scooters have rear ends covered in identical ‘Globe and Mail’ wallpaper
   (2006.09.13)
Man in safety vest and hard hat points as giant Gazzola Paving grader lumbers by on treads
   (2006.09.13)

When to caption a subtitled movie (on CBC, always)

   (2006.09.12)

It may well appear that a Silver Spirit is parked outside the truck-parts shop on a back alley.

The only way in which looks deceive is that the “alley” is a full-fledged street improbably called Memory Lane. It is now demonstrably possible to go down Memory Lane in one’s Rolls.

(“Do you drive it in the winter?” “My wife does,” said the old man in the hat with the too-broad brim. “Got to use them,” I said. “They can’t be just ornamental.”)

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