And STILL Margaret Calvert is alive
I have just done my periodic Wikipedia check. Margaret Calvert is still alive.
Dammit.
I have treated you to my Margaret Calvert rant before. She’s the South African graphic designer who came to England in the Fifties and fucked up all the road signs.
I don’t know if she invented the ugly, glommy ‘International Symbol Man’ style, but she was an early adopter, at least. Hit the link for my least favorite ever Margaret Calvert design, the physics-busting Slippery Road sign.
I remembered to do my periodic check as this image turned up in a story I was reading. Just look at this shit! It’s the Men Working sign. Also known as “Man with Recalcitrant Umbrella.”
No, that’s not original. I’m not the only one who thinks she sucks.
March 3, 2022 — 7:41 pm
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I swear I’m taking crazy pills
Did you know Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was the voice of Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian version? Why, yes. And here he is playing Hava Nagila on the piano with his penis. Zelenskyy is the real spelling, too. I looked it up.
It’s all a little much for me. I don’t know what is actually going on in Ukraine. I mean, I do believe Russia is doing something big and scary and I’m worried about where this is all going, but the narrative is just…surreal. I get the creeping feeling I’m being played somehow.
I dunno. Maybe two years of lockdown and I’ve got the jimm-jamms. But, hey – about that? Over here, they’re just quietly dropping all that covid stuff, including mandates. Just like that. Under the fog of war.
Ehhhh…I don’t know what I’m getting at. I’m’a go take a bath.
March 2, 2022 — 7:39 pm
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Year of the
Uncle B bought these little fellas ages ago. They’re tiny little figurines; just a bit of fun to celebrate the Year of the Tiger. He tells me they were held up at Customs for some reason. I can’t imagine why.
He was born in the Year of the Tiger. I was born in the Year of the Rat. Many years ago – before we were married – I bought us a couple of commemorative coins from a shop in China town. The shopkeeper squinted, sucked his teeth and said, “Tiger man, rat woman…hard. Possible, but hard.”
And speaking of hard, I had to work until 5 today. I am impossibly salty about it.
How did I ever pull 12-hour days?
March 1, 2022 — 6:52 pm
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