Archive for March 2006

Tandoori Tango    (2006.03.14)

Tango, Letraset, circa 1975.

Memories of Brick Lane™?

Truth in advertising    (2006.03.12)

Of course, I’m also riding along there when it’s –10° or colder. (Cf.)

Pixelation    (2006.03.11)

‘Try to turn off your gay male pixelation’

Green bolts    (2006.03.11)

I have a surprisingly large collection of photos of coloured truck wheels.

I suppose at this point that sort of thing shouldn’t be surprising.

Self-raising pastiche    (2006.03.09)

I think this is a skilful pastiche given the bottom three lines (in Helvetica Condensed, mismatched on English and French sides).

Notes from FCC interventions    (2006.03.09)

Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. asked for changes to requirements for captioning quality, among other things. What were the responses?

Exploding the conference business    (2006.03.08)

(Pace Jeff Jarvis.) For two months straight, I have received weekly inquiries about South by Southwest: Was I going? Or, as it was more commonly expressed, wasn’t I going? No, I’m not. I’ve been there twice, presenting on both occasions, and, while I have admitted that it SXSW is a great time in which one […]

Auger or augur?    (2006.03.08)

If it is the quintessential New York story to pack up and move from Idaho to a cold-water tenement and a life in the theatre, and if it is the quintessential British story to leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case –

– then surely it is the quintessential Toronto story to ride one’s bicycle in mid-winter past a lakefront beach barely dappled with snow only to encounter a disused front-end loader with rear auger attachment hiked up on its haunches on the sand.

‘My Jolly Corner’    (2006.03.05)

What does Guy Maddin have to say in Film Comment’s “My Jolly Corner”?