Sunday, February 2, 2025

No offense intended, Chris.

https://topatoco.com/collections/oglaf/products/og-craft

In case you missed it earlier, XL, please. 

- Sid 

(Actually, given that Chris is a fan of both, I honestly don't know which way the coin would fall on this one.)

Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Ministry of Truth.

Now this is quite clever - I'm impressed as both a graphic designer and a reader.

- Sid

(If it's not obvious right away, just click on the image to enlarge it.)

But then, isn’t everything?

My lovely wife needed to venture out into the cold this morning to buy a book for her sister's birthday, and invited me to join her on her shopping trip.  I'm always happy to visit a bookstore, so I accepted her invitation, and after breakfast we headed off to our neighbourhood Indigo.

After finding the requested gift book, we wandered around the store a bit, and stopped for a minute at a display of books that had been adapted to television or film, which included Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel.  I'd already read the original text in digital format shortly after watching the miniseries on Prime, and unexpectedly found that I preferred the visual adaptation to the novel.  Nonetheless, I was willing to support the author by buying a paper copy of the book, so I casually picked up the display copy.  To my amazement, it was priced at $50 CAD.

I've complained in the past about the high price of books, but  hardcover or not, that's just a ridiculous number - and I can't help but feel that somehow, ultimately, this is Donald Trump's fault.

- Sid