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Sunday Seven: Feelings About Fonts

March 8, 2009 | 3 comments

To post is better than to not post. Hey, I’m outta town visiting my parents since Thursday – whaddya want from my life? In any case, here’s my contribution to previously-mentioned Patrick’s present Sunday Seven question:

Here’s a list of the 7 top typefaces used by graphic design professionals.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
Rank your seven favorite typefaces listed in the article linked above.

I noticed that in the article referenced, the word “professional” is printed in quotation marks, which I take to mean that the ranking and perceived professionalism are a matter of the original author’s opinion. I’m willing to take his word for it. Here, then, are the seven fonts in order of my own personal preference (click on the image of for a larger view with more examples of the corresponding font): Read the rest of this entry »


The Blagojevich Pile-on: Missing the Pile

December 10, 2008 | 2 comments

You gotta hand it to Rod Blagojevich. Here we all were thinking Sarah Palin was surely the dumbest state governor in the U.S., when all of a sudden… well, you know.

The Illinois governor’s arrest has been a slow softball down the middle for the news media. No, scratch that – it’s been more like TWO softballs down the middle. The first was the revelation of his corruption itself; the second and more shocking was how much he sucked at being corrupt. The guy just has no gift for graft.

Yet even with this fat pitch lobbed at them, a few conservative commentators have merely fouled it off. Read the rest of this entry »


We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

October 23, 2007 | Permalink

Over at Balkinization, Brian Tamahana has shared a moment of sickening clarity:

I had lunch today with a prominent German Constitutional scholar who was flabbergasted about something that I could not adequately explain.

He asked me how the candidate to become the top legal official of the U.S. government could say that he does not know whether water-boarding constitutes “torture” (as Judge Mukasey stated yesterday in his confirmation hearings). My colleague insisted that in Germany any person who uttered such a statement would be finished. He found it shocking that a person could say this in America and still become our Attorney General.

At first I was surprised at his genuine disbelief; and then I felt a bit ashamed that I did not also react with disbelief.

And yesterday at Slate, a piece Read the rest of this entry »


Irony Supplement

October 18, 2007 | Permalink

Lo and behold, though I have posted nothing in quite awhile and am therefore a bad, bad blogger… I came across this tidbit, which has languished for two months in my “drafts” folder. I must have run out of time after composing it and had to rush off somewhere.

Far be it from me to make light of auto accidents (a subject with which I have become all to familiar); nevertheless, I could not help but be struck (ha ha) by the following item, which I discovered at The Map Room:

Cars Crash Into the University of Georgia Map Library

The University of Georgia’s Map Library seems to be a favourite target of wayward (and inebriated) drivers: it was hit last September (there are photos) and, less spectacularly, earlier this month. Via MAPS-L [a cartographic listserv] where the University’s map librarian reported on “what has apparently become an annual event.”

library-hole

Since the librarians are writing poetry about it, I guess nobody was killed or anything. Then again, in my schoolboy days I did encounter a few librarians who were utterly cruel and heartless, so who knows.


Poker, Movies, and Sucking

May 2, 2007 | Permalink

You know that poker movie Lucky You that came out a few weeks ago? I was all but certain it was going to suck based solely on its preview, although as a poker enthusiast I genuinely wanted to be wrong. Apparently I wasn’t. The always-insightful critic Mike D’Angelo not only explains why, but describes the overall problem with dramatizing poker on film.

I’ve been a fan of Mike’s writing since I first encountered him on the now-defunct Cinemarati.org about six years ago, when I believe he was writing reviews for Time Out New York. Unsurprisingly to me, he has since progressed to become regular columnist for Esquire, as well as a contributor to Nerve.com and the Las Vegas Weekly. At least, that’s as much of his resume as I can discern from his web site, which is where I go to keep up with his latest output.


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