The BBC Magazine has a cute bit called Me and my font, spawned by their article on the 50th birthday of Helvetica (which contains a well-deserved Comic Sans slam, as well).
I’m particularly amused by Thursday’s quote; it’s a shame I never thought of that one during my college days.
Where the theater used to be is going to be a Barneys New York. On the temporary wall that’s in place so they can do construction was this:
So, the question I have is: “what does luxury humor taste like?”
(The answer will probably be “chicken”.)
Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s Making Light has this year’s Christmas Game running along at a very quick pace.
Highly recommended, even if the vast majority of them are getting answered before I can get back to the thread, even when I do recognize them….
In AP’s story on a grenade shell found in the turf at Wrigley Field, even the Chicago police won’t give the Cubs a break.
The device was “found to be empty and harmless”:
“It’s a dud, just like the Cubs were,” Police spokesman Pat Camden said Wednesday.
So Bush is in the White House, Duran Duran has a new album out, and I’ve just been to a Worldcon in Boston.
What year is this again?
In Japan, Women Can Doze With Man Pillow
After a long night at work as a radio DJ, Junko Suzuki likes to snuggle at bedtime - and she says she’s found the perfect partner: a man-shaped pillow.
Apparently, it’s got some advantages over her previous solution:
For Suzuki, who is estranged from her husband, the pillow has definite advantages: It doesn’t squirm or thrash in the night, and you know it’ll be there in the morning.
“It keeps holding me all the way through,” she said in her home outside of Tokyo. “I think this is great because this does not betray me.”
Someone tried to rob a copy shop that he thought was a bank, failed, apparently did manage to rob a couple of banks, and wound up being arrested “drenched in red dye” at a gas station (his tire had gone flat after leaving the second bank). It just wasn’t his day.
The funny thing is that I recognize the copy shop’s location from the photo and description, and when I moved to Boston in 1986, it was a bank! They closed the branch but kept the ATMs, and later the copy shop moved in.
ckd is a burglar alarm that works upside-down, never gets tired and looks like a fish.
Amusingly, I got a Google Ad for alarm monitoring services on that page. Not quite as much fun as the Boston Globe article about Bill Gates that tried to sell me wrought-iron fencing, but hey.
So a Boston hotel now has a copy of Britney Spears’s bedroom, designed by her mother, that can be booked for a mere $349 a night ($259 in the off-season, which by the article apparently means “winter”)–Britney not included.
The mini-bar is stocked with some of Brit’s favorite treats — Cheetos, strawberry Pop Tarts, Starburst, Red Bull, Pepsi and orange juice. Her CDs and a DVD of her movie “Crossroads” are also on hand.
I don’t think I want to know what their target market is. I really don’t. Not even with 10% of the room charge donated to the Britney Spears Foundation, which “helps sick children and funds a performing arts camp in Louisiana” according to the AP article.
If it were the RNC coming to town instead of the DNC, would Bob Dole get that room?
Boston Common has been making up for lost time with a stack of posts today. The discussion of Storrow Drive bridges vs. folks who can’t read clearance signs (so far the bridges are batting 1.000) is as amusing as always, including a pointer to this photo of a truck post-bridge. Can you say “can-opener effect”?
