Archive for category: Inversion

Not wanted on the voyage    (2006.12.15)

Chip Kidd dismisses the importance of invert graphic designers

I expected more dalmatians    (2006.12.03)

“If you’ve got a hi-’n’-tite haircut,” I asked the youngest of the five firemens at the Woody’s launch of the new calendar, “does that make you a probie?” After repeating the question, he finally understood and admitted he was new. Joe 1, probie 0.

“Is Keith Maidment here?” I asked him, pushing my luck. “Who?” “The only openly gay fireman. He’s an acting captain.” “Where?” he asked, meaning “Which station?” “I dunno.” Joe 1, probie 1. (Neither the tall blond overachiever nor his almost-as-tall Italianate overachiever husband was in attendance. I checked – thoroughly.)

The queue to have one’s calendar inscribed was oversubscribed by old guys and one middle-aged mom. The fellas onstage look less like firemen than second-string high-school football players who have been working on their bench press since they were 16. At least we’ve given up the conceit that firegrrlz should get one of the monthly photos. We signed up for fake soot and suspenders with no shirt, not a plain girl in a ponytail covered head to calf in a bathrobe as she sips wine by fireside.

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?

Engineers and AIDS    (2006.09.23)

Things must have changed mightily if the engineer marching band serenades participants of the AIDS Walk.

LGBT2SQQQBLMORMORSS&S and sometimes Y    (2006.09.17)

Why settle for just L or G when you could be LGBT2SQQQBLMORMORSS&SY?

‘Sisters’    (2006.08.15)

‘A sister was a pal in whom there could never be any further sexual interest, even if the initial meeting had occurred through cruising’

Apparently complete but embarrassingly short list of known homosexualist bloggeurs with graphic-design and/or typographic skills    (2006.08.06)

Total: 3

Invert tattoo trifecta    (2006.07.17)

Cursive, blackletter caps, and Chinese

Mince of the penguins    (2006.07.14)

Is marrying two gay penguins in absentia in any way like burning them in effigy?