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Archive for the year 2004

   (2004.11.02)
Raised Helvetica Condensed letters on building read ‘26’ in the afternoon sun

(Cf. crumbly, lapidary Helvetica.)

   (2004.11.02)

Located, funnily enough, on “the” Broadway, a terrifying thoroughfare overrun by eight lanes of 60 km/h traffic, all running on the wrong side of the road and replete with buses in the curb lanes. I’ve never gotten so much dust in my eyes in my life.

Nighttime view shows four-storey, ornate, well-lighted building with a projecting clock tower
   (2004.11.01)

I couldn’t believe it either: A hastily-made product sign, meant to stand in until a sign that conforms to corporate livery (using Futura) could be printed, typeset in… Benguiat Gothic.

Side-by-signs on store shelves, one plain in Benguiat Gothic, the other in Futura with coloured nameplate

(It’s pronounced “Ben·gat,” for your beginners. He’d probably look at his own font and blurt “What, that piece of shit?”)

   (2004.10.28)

B-links, October 28

   (2004.10.26)

Have nothing, nothing at all, in the fridge save for a case o’ Edensoy and two kinds of ethnic dips.

Top shelf of refrigerator holds case of Edensoy, baba gannouj, hummus
   (2004.10.25)

Maple trees in Toronto are enduring a fungal outbreak (PDF) that stains their leaves black, irrespective of original colour.

Green-, yellow-, and burgundy-coloured fallen leaves on grass show large black spots
   (2004.10.23)

“When riding the escalator, please wear a skirt, carry your stuffed bust of boar in the crook of one arm, and ensure that your mirror-image clone holds his prosthesis well away from the edge.”

Three warning images at base of escalator treads: Female figure holding hand of child; male figure holding front half of some animal; and identical male figures, one of whose extended legs is overwritten with a red X
   (2004.10.20)
Concrete wall on brick building features large round glass porthole, stainless-steel barre, and inscriptions in the concrete in letterspaced lower-case Times

Pity about the letterspaced Times. Ours doesn’t have that problem.

Concrete wall behind grey wheelchair ramp shows three porthole windows
   (2004.10.18)

Within hours of arrival, John and the Web Essentials posse started in with the running jokes. A later example: Cranberry juice. An early example: Taking photos of everything but people, particularly of sewer grates and access covers underfoot.

Despite the stick, it stuck, and by watching where I was going I managed to find a maintenance-hole cover with embossed Garamond type. Now, which cut, exactly?

Square metal access lid is partly covered by dirt and leaves and has rounded corners, an embossed crisscross pattern, and the word ‘furse’ in Garamond type

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