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   (2006.08.13)

CBC wouldn’t write a blogging policy, so its bloggers had to do it themselves

   (2006.08.13)

In which we explore the writings of the (formerly mysterious) heterosexualist CBC captioner–blogger, “Nugget” (sic)

   (2006.08.13)

“Of course people would always read things (captions, E-mails), but would they want to read long imaginative or confessional works written by writers in the past, even the recent past?”

   (2006.08.11)

I was gonna say it’s reminiscent of such unpleasant typefaces as Weidemann, but I checked and that isn’t the unpleasant typeface it’s reminiscent of.

Weathered sign on brick wall above doorway reads LAW OFFICE Peters & Kestelman 245 Coxwell Ave.

Additionally, a preposition is not to be used to end a sentence with.

   (2006.08.10)

Does anyone remember Epson dot-matrix printers and the cursive typefaces they could hack together? Is it even possible to make a printout of such a thing anymore?

Sign on brick building reads LUCKY DRIVING SCHOOL in script typeface with mismatched stroke thicknesses and angles
   (2006.08.09)

Two-hour, third-rate, 30-year-old dubbed monster movies that are broadcast when people with real lives are out having a good time: Pop-on captioning. Current, high-profile, prime-time half-hour dramas with a rabidly loyal viewership: Scrollup captioning

   (2006.08.07)
Appliqué on driveway in front of red rollup door shows a Road Runner–like mascot in a fire helmet driving on a road running through a four-leaf clover. Two of the leaves read YONGE ST. and GROSVENOR ST. Legend reads PUMPER 314 RUNNING THE STRIP SINCE 1871

There is, in fact, no “strip” between Yonge and Grosvenor to “run.” The two streets intersect. (And hats off to you if you are one of the few Torontonians who can pronounce “Grosvenor.”)

   (2006.08.07)

If CBC doesn’t blog about captioning, then I will. And that means I set the agenda

   (2006.08.06)

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