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I Skipped the Waiting Room
Remember that cold I alluded to back in early January, the one I claimed had “broken”? Well, 24 days later, illness holds onto me with its steely claws. Sore throat. Cough. Congestion. An evolving...
View ArticlePeter Pan on the CBC
I was proud to play a small role in this week’s episode of the CBC Radio This is PEI podcast. I am, it seems, the canonical source of the audio and video of the Peter Pan Burger Basket $1.99 television...
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Monitoring PEI Electricity
Ten years ago, at pei.consuming.ca, I released a web app that displayed the current Prince Edward Island electricity load, and the proportion of that load being met by wind energy generation.Ten years...
View ArticleEmotional Sovereignty
I’ve just finished reading the post reclaiming our emotional sovereignty: repairing the cultural poverty that currently meets disorganised states, by Jason Field. It is not a light read; it’s a dense...
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Why did we buy so much yellow ink?
Our printshop has ended up, for reasons neither Lisa nor I can remember, with an uncommon amount of yellow ink. Some of this yellow in is Akua Diarylide Yellow, which is a rich, lovely yellow that...
View ArticleKimberly-Clark Professional Paper Towel Dispenser
The Kimberly-Clark “Professional” paper towel dispenser—product name “ICON Rolled Towel Dispenser”—is a thing of functional beauty. Rare in the paper-towel dispensing machine world, it just works....
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Midwinter Snowshoe
Looking for the extension ladder to help deal with ice dams on the back roof. It wasn’t there. I’m not actually sure we own an an extension ladder. But it was a nice snowshoe. See also this summertime...
View ArticleThere Will Be Blood
I had an appointment with my nurse practitioner at 9:15 a.m today, during which I had some blood drawn to allow them to run some tests.I got a call back from her office at 1:45 p.m. with the results...
View ArticleCharlottetown to Halifax in the Winter of 1867
Harry Holman recently published an account of a wintertime journey from Charlottetown to Halifax in 1867, over two posts: one, two.While the tale of the journey across the Northumberland Strait is...
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Kitchen Garden
From Why I Cook, by Tom Colicchio:Elizabeth is an industrial town nestled into northern New Jersey’s historic manufacturing belt. It’s best known for its shipping container port (one of the eastern...
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Notebook Procrastination
I came to the print shop this afternoon to, well, print something. But in cleaning up around the press I encountered a sheaf of 11”x17” scrap paper, previously used for packing on the press, that cried...
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A Day Trip to Sackville
When you live on an island, sometimes, in the dead of winter, you need to GET OFF THE ISLAND. It doesn’t really matter where. Just OFF.So today, with a rare day free from other commitments, Lisa and I...
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A Month of Days
This is A Month of Days, a project I’ve been working on for the last month:Buy A Month of DaysIt’s the simplest of all date books: a page per day, numbered in the corner in big bold red Akzidenz...
View ArticleWhat is the best song in the world?
Five years ago I wrote about covers that were better than the original. I thought of that post when I found my way to the cover of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now by Swedish singer-songwriter The...
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Moon Over Province House
The Moon was almost full tonight—97%—and the sky was crystal clear, so we went on an evening photo walk, looking for views of St. Dunstan’s Basilica to feed Lisa’s series of relief prints from...
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The 2025 Crocuses
The first crocuses of the year appeared in the front garden at 100 Prince Street on Friday, March 14. See also 2020 (March 24), 2021 (March 12), 2022 (March 18), 2023 (March 20) and 2024 (March 14).
View ArticleWe are what we buy
I’m a regular customer as The Gallery: it’s the closest coffee shop to our house, the coffee and food are good, and the staff are friendly. The Gallery uses Square as its point of sale terminal. They...
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Furiously Curious
New from the print shop today is a broadside I’ve been working on for the last month:Buy Furiously CuriousThe words are Sir Jony Ive’s, from BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs (you can hear them at 3:50...
View ArticleForever is a Feeling
Lucy Dacus has a new album dropping on March 28, 2025. You can listen to select tracks on her Bandcamp page. I particularly like Ankles.See also The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus, a New Yorker...
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Weight Contrast Coincidence in Federal Election Signs
One of the biggest influences on my typographic sensibilities was the title sequence from the 1980s TV drama thirtysomething:The all-lower-case, and the “weight contrast,” in the title card—a bold...
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