Archive for July 2007

13,000    (2007.07.31)

Writing an academic paper, pretty much thanklessly

‘Canadian Television Today’    (2007.07.31)

Canadian TV in a sentence: “[W]hat Human Cargo offers is the unsmiling, straightforward and sincere version of a myth of Canada that may well be desirable but comes with so much elitist baggage that it needs to be taken down a peg or two by also embracing Trailer Park Boys”

Quit lying about Safari    (2007.07.30)

Safari annoyances

Red hankies… they’re so passé    (2007.07.30)

We know he’s withered, but why is Steve Munro such a cunt? (Valid-HTML version)

Leuty, inhabited    (2007.07.25)

These fit young lifeguards (civilian employees of the cops) actually inhabit this building every day.

And this is the first evidence I’ve ever seen.

(The girls were no-nonsense and the shirtless and/or tank-topped guys were characteristically dismissive in that manly swimmer-d00d manner. They make a point of being that way. These are guys who would never use the phrase “characteristically dismissive.”)

‘This movie sucks,’ say the fonts    (2007.07.22)

A movie whose poster uses red Flyer Extra Bold or equivalent is a warning sign

Nonrenewable Nonfiction    (2007.07.19)

The event known as Nonfiction isn’t going to make it even to a second outing

12 – 11 – 10    (2007.07.18)

Russell eetcarstray yard, Leslieville. The repair bays hide in plain sight and glow like alien craft of a winter afternoon.

Is that real Helvetica or Swiss 721?

‘If becoming rich requires unironic use of the word “monetize,” count me out’    (2007.07.18)

Monetize your own fucking intelligence, why don’t you?