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Freckles & Doubt ([personal profile] freckles_and_doubt) wrote2008-12-12 10:16 am

font of all wisdom

I've just remembered the really important aspect of Quantum of Solace which I omitted from my previous review. Things I Enjoyed: the efforts of the pervy font-fancier they'd unleashed on all the location titles. They were weird and appropriate enough font choices to make me giggle every time they flashed on the screen, no doubt to the confusion of my neighbours. This revelation brought to you courtesy of two days spent formatting orientation handouts with lame attempts at upbeat! informal! user-friendly! fonts, which will probably be justly scorned by all right-thinking freshers, but hey. I tried.

Last night I dreamed that I was in the bedroom I occupied as a teenager, watching the ghost of my late, lamented cat Fish, fat, glossy and purring, bouncing around and chasing the droves of madly brightly-coloured giant tree frogs who were climbing over the windowsill intent on something - possibly robbery? When I picked her she was remarkably warm and solid for a ghost and tried to bite me with her usual absence of malice. Later I looked for a Christmas present for the Evil Landlord in the dodgy new-agey shop of a troupe of fire performers (the stage was festooned with copper pipes which apparently sprayed petrol). I'm not sure if I ever bought him anything. Probably just as well.

In other news, Treefrog is a font. My subconscious appears to be unusually coherent, for a given value of "coherent".

p.s. He's a superhumanly strong day-dreaming ex-con who knows the secret of the alien invasion. She's a scantily clad bisexual traffic cop with an evil twin sister. They fight crime!

(Anonymous) 2008-12-12 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
"She's a sarcastic cigar-chomping fairy princess from a family of eight older brothers."

I *like* her.

scroob

[identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
I like quite a lot of them, actually. Pleasingly unlikely and rife with absurd juxtapositions, which is a word of which I'm possibly slightly over-fond.

Skate-boarding shamans in a wheelchair, Batman!

[identity profile] starmadeshadow.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Let me know if dinner tomorrow night is a possibility? I have left my book o' contacts in the UK, so have no mobile number for you.

Re: Skate-boarding shamans in a wheelchair, Batman!

[identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
aargh, bit difficult to say at the moment, Family Stuff is happening. Will canvass the relatives and find out if I'm free.

Also, 073 305 0808. Now Teh Whole Internets Kno.

Lollercoaster.

[identity profile] first-fallen.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
He's a scarfaced white trash rock star plagued by the memory of his family's brutal murder. She's a strong-willed renegade magician's assistant who inherited a spooky stately manor from her late maiden aunt.

This site might eat my day.

Re: Lollercoaster.

[identity profile] extemporanea.livejournal.com 2008-12-12 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, no fair, I never got a spooky stately manor. Martians, though. And chicks with flamethrowers. Mmmm, flamethrowers.

He's a notorious native American dwarf whom everyone believes is mad.

(Anonymous) 2008-12-12 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha. The guy who wrote the words for that "They Fight Crime" website apparently also runs an amusing/interesting food blog.

http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/

pK.