Archive for the year 2004

Great artists get demoted to ‘entertainment reporter’    (2004.05.04)

Judy Stoffman: Inaccurate and a little too derivative?

¡Ay curmudgeon!    (2004.05.03)

Seeing oneself in ‘I, Curmudgeon’

They have nothing to lose but their haitches    (2004.05.03)

The startling letdown of meeting the authoress of ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’

1:½(1+√5)    (2004.05.01)

What everyone needs in a statue, or in a man: Proportion

Why all the photos?    (2004.04.30)

About fawny.blog: Why all the photos?

Derelict on Heward Ave.    (2004.04.30)

As the graffiti (unexpectedly, it is not actually found on this building) otherwise tells us, THIS SHOULD BE HOUSING. A suspicious fire drove tenants out years ago. Suddenly there’s scaffolding. No doubt they’ll remove the apartment block’s signal feature: It carries one of the few remaining street signs actually affixed to a building.

Strangely-three-dimensional painted window sign    (2004.04.30)

Hands off the thermostat    (2004.04.30)

Oddly reminiscent of Vapona® No-Pest Strips™ from my youth. Dig the Futura (or is it Flyer?) company logotype at bottom. If it weren’t red, it wouldn’t work.

BMW double-truck advertisement    (2004.04.30)