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Ford pickup truck’s license plate reads DAGUERRE

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.07 20:03. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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You’ve really got to love Friz Quadrata and Avant Garde Gothic to mo(u)ld them into polypropylene. It’ll still be around when the sun goes nova.

Green plastic implement shows a triangular logo, ‘AMES’ in Friz Quadrata, and ‘ReelEasy’ in Avant Garde Gothic Bold and Bold Oblique

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.07 20:02. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Further evidence of the subway’s commitment to accessibility:

Laser-printed sign tacked onto elevator window reads ‘Elevator not in use.’ Hand-scrawled graffiti reads ‘You get the shaft’

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.07 20:01. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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What can you safely do with this thing?

Close-up of four warning labels in English and French (ten in enlarged photo)

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.07 19:59. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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One has been reminded a couple of times by a quintessentially-German publicistrix that I was handed an expensive copy of House by House Industries (op. cit.) and by God I’d better put a review out. This of course necessitates a full re-read, with dozens of tape flags and one-liner notes. I’ll roll it out in instalments, sort of like paying back a loan, since that’s how our dear German friends seem to be looking at it.

To start with, though, I thought I’d engage in one of those obsessif delights to which you, my esteemed audience, have become accustomed. House uses five- or possibly six-colour printing. Nearly all conventional pages (but not vellum or uncoated stock in the back) have silver overlays. Most of those are “dark” silver, that is, the overlay is dark enough that you’re expected to notice and absorb it (and sometimes even read it) along with the rest of the page. But the lighter silver overlay is something of a puzzle on each page.

To save you the hassle of rotating a heavy, 2½-foot-wide book a couple of hundred times just to see what’s hidden in the overlay, I did it for you and jotted them all down.

For some godawful reason, House has no page numbers; the first page, reading simply House Industries, is deemed page 1. I seem to have missed a page somewhere along the line; it is an exercise for the reader to locate it for me. (There I was saying you didn’t have to rotate the pages by yourself. Well, you may if you wish. Fact-check my overlays.)

[continue with: The ‘House’ façade →]

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.05 14:03. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Time to put this one out to pasture, or at least hook it up with some Toys “Я” Us carts in a retirement home.

Side of dirty blue coupe shows broken-up Dart Swinger insignia

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.05 13:21. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Sign in window reads ‘285 Queen St. E.’; on the glass, graffiti reads ‘Crack is not where it’s at’

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.05 13:20. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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They couldn’t just set up a ladder?

Orange scissor lift to the left of a steel-and-glass building zigzags two guys up to the third storey much further to the right

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.05 13:19. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Yellow and blue ellipses surround the word ‘Ellipse’ written in blue script

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.09.05 13:18. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/09/05/squaresville/

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