Author archive

Lupine    (2005.12.09)

The following THRILL-CAM shot depicts what is clearly not a dog but is possibly a fox, wolf, or coyote standing around the supermarket parking lot nosing up morsels of food.

It is of course known that I ride my bike year-round and coined the word icebike. Separate annual icebike races are held around the Leslie St. Spit and the Toronto Islands, and, according to what I have read but cannot now find, like clockwork every year, at a pause in the racing someone looks over and spots a wolf or coyote casually walking across the ice.

Now they have debit cards and shop at Loblaws.

Sĭsȗ    (2005.12.05)

You know your product is doomed when buyers have to search Unicode Latin Extended–A and –B tables just to write the name down.

Gladstonism    (2005.12.04)

Gladstone Hotel reopening (furniture typography; type memorabilia; Sunbeam study).

Skid o’ ice    (2005.12.01)

Stomp/right-stomp    (2005.11.29)

Palatino Parkette    (2005.11.28)

The old correct Palatino (or is this Aldus?) is still a delight all these decades later, ain’t she?

Droidlike garbage trucks    (2005.11.25)

Woodchipper speed bump    (2005.11.24)

Sometimes you can make things look oranger than orange.

The mayor in the chair    (2005.11.21)

The new mayor-elect of Vancouver is a quadriplegic in a power chair