Author archive

Raised-pinky design    (2006.10.28)

Kyle Cooper on Paul Rand

U Garde It    (2006.10.27)

Confidential to Brian Finch    (2006.10.27)

The man leading the life and times of a positoid writes, in an E-mail response: What on earth’s name would make you think that I would want to ever respond to you? Indeed, what on earth would?

Quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal’    (2006.10.25)

In which I am quoted in the Wall Street Journal (and paraphrased inaccurately)

Vixen    (2006.10.24)

Sometimes there’s “classic” type right under your nose. Or overhead.

We had one of those Toronto moments the other night as we drove down the last vestiges of the Rosedale Valley Rd., almost at Bayview. Crossing the street in the distance was a figure recognizable at a glance as an animal but – thrillingly – not a raccoon or a cat. He trotted casually across, then up the roadway embankment. We beheld a mature fox with an improbably long dark tufted tail.

It was another of those profound reminders of the presence of nature. We live in a Tier B city, but we have a few things you do not, like blasé foxes that cross the road unimpeded. He’s my third.

Fifth Avenue    (2006.10.24)

From an era in which landau roofs and opera lamps meant a car was klassy.

And should insecurities remain nonetheless, we topped things off with gold lamé script.

Fresh script and apple strudel    (2006.10.24)

Yet more in the way of yellow tubes    (2006.10.20)

(Q.v.; q.q.v.)

Our happy gang    (2006.10.19)

In which I host the PDF/UA clan in Toronto