🚨DALE DICKEY EMMY NOMINATION🚨

I’ve held Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark as my ideal film for decades I just realized this past weekend that it is, at its core, Romeo and Juliet like what took me so long

emergency meeting with marketing last night to stop them from rethinking the entire brand, which they wanted to do out of excitement over branded luggage straps for team members on the go it’s like herding overstimulated preschoolers sometimes

It’s taken a while to put into words what I find so distasteful about AI in type design (even — especially — the ‘boring parts’). It’s not the threat of being put out of a job. Some thoughts: mass-driver.com/article/from...

some Japanese furry, using an aggressive “I WILL speak to a manager” tone, demanded I add a Dutch IJ to Big Shoulders, the typeface family I made for the Chicago Design System a city where <1000 Dutchies are and continued to accuse me of Dutch Erasure once a year until I finally blocked them

I’ve watched this film twice in two days, which I don’t think I’ve done since Titanic

all day I’ve been trying to get my head around what Mexican food in the UK would even be

I really want to see a bit of documentary about deciding where to time percussion with Gosling’s tumbling in the first act it was also great to see Drew Goddard echo his themes from The Martian and Sandra Hüller’s quiet deadpan comedy: unbeatable the whole film was just spectacularly crafted

I put on Project Hail Mary to feed Mom by WHY has nobody spoken about the score this is spectacular soundtracking

GOOD MORNING accidentally snapped Jasmine at the beginning of a sneeze

jesus christ

are we no longer doing images are we just blind now

this continues! i’m delighted! Norma was my ever-present studio partner from birth to 2020, ending when Mom took over my studio (in the old apartment) as Dementia HQ

foundry team is disappointed with me because they like my ogonek more than my hook and cedilla and i'm like fine fine fine

there are a lottttttt of samples of Give It Up by The Goodmen (1992) on Confessions II and you should really listen to that track

i’m doing Kimmy Schmidt for Mom’s Dementia Comedy Viewings we just hit Pinot Noir and it confused her enough that she regained the ability to speak: “why is that man just saying random words in his song”

storms have passed and cats are feeling better about things gm to He Who Spent The Night Curled Up By My Head

the inscription lettering is 1920s equivalent of “why didn’t you hire a designer” and I love it

is Mitch McConnell gonna die or what chop chop this Veuve Clicquot been waiting a while

heard an amazing new beat and then 30 seconds in… Madonna started mumbling and so it’s time for me to scream into the void, “MADONNA COULD HAVE KICKSTARTED THE TRANS RIGHTS MOVEMENT WITH VOGUE IN 1990 HAD SHE NOT INSTEAD ERASED THEM FROM THE VIDEO” thank you

Norma just explored the downstairs, carefully, for the first time since we moved into this apartment on Oct 31 2022, and you know what, sometimes it just takes time

fine tedious show filled with people who won’t stop talking begone

Go! (1999)

this is actually a really nice time and space saving event; we can exile them both simultaneously on the same raft

last night, had dinner with a friend I’ve been close with since I was 16 and she was 17 we’re 56 and 57 now if you have the means for this, I highly recommend

visiting CNA is terrified of cats??? meanwhile Jasmine is happy to see her and is bonking head to shin

I must know why mattresses required a separate line item, I must

I wish I had the tools to follow the money to see the connections between the Trib's and Waymo's investors and it'd also be nice to see the memo directing someone to write this, namelessly, at the investors' behest, if that exists

how did I never know Betty Boop, in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was voiced by Mae Questel who ACTUALLY voiced Betty Boop in the 30s

today is Long Circuit Day (east from Milwaukee Ave on Diversey to Sheridan, then west to Broadway, then north to Montrose, then west back to Cicero and Addison) and frankly that route is just Asking For It but whatever I haven’t seen a Pride since like 2000

his announcement of candidacy for chicago mayor didn’t mention the giant mouth and that’s a red flag for me

someone clearly presented my Big Shoulders Inline type family, which I made for Chicago, to Home Depot but they asked for a less celebratory vibe so they made a simpler Inline out of it I really wanna talk to whatever poor soul had to make this and buy them some booze because my god

friend in town to watch over their kid in the hospital: nearing end of rope

that's right, he's a butler for trans women. a sort of valet of the dolls

by popular request (nobody) here is my daily-use People Who Will Hit You On Your Bike list (Chicago Northwest Side) lady In a white base model Lexus LX anyone In any Tesla, +20% if it’s white obvious lesbian in a new Crosstrek white guy in a BMW 3 any parent in any SUV, only around 3PM

everyone has their own People Most Likely to Hit You On Your Bike When You're Stopped At A Traffic Light Doing Nothing list Lady In A White Base Model Lexus LX has long occupied my top spot today one slowly shoved me into the intersection from behind like ????? how

new Boy Harsher! first thing since 2024! must listen!

this mess turned 18 today

oh good an update to InDesign's stupid AI writing features, trumpeted in update screen fixes for InDesign's lagginess on Apple Silicon after waking: zero mentions

there was this really brief moment on streamers between 2020-22 when they’d throw the weirdest projects out onto the air and you should absolutely watch The Resort (2022); it’s spectacular

love this typeface however! the essay leaves on the floor that someone was dosing dolphins with LSD in the sixties which wow

I always forget how long this lamp’s been in our family and it’s shocking to see first photo is my mother (now 78) in 1947, when it was already about 70 years old the second one just snapped a moment ago

turned on the morning Just Whatever To Keep Mom Engaged and Paramount+ suggested Taken with Liam Neeson specifically to celebrate Father’s Day

fake bell that falls away to reveal Kylie Minogue belting out Aphrodite from a platform all these men end up wearing little silver loincloths this repeats every solstice

not a dad, but a drunkle

I always forget about this but i’m fascinated by it like is there that one guy in Greenland who goes insane every solstice because the sun never goes down and he just isn’t taking care of himself, and everyone kinda has to keep in contact so they all know where he is

guy posting about his new genAI fontmaker on TypeDrawers is mad nobody appreciates its shitty curves, terrible spacing, and bad xeroxes of existing fonts I think my actual question is why is he asking actual type designers what they think about stealing their livelihood when, obviously,

have you guys seen Dinosaur (2000) from Disney? it’s TERRIBLE if Mom was at all cogent any more she’d be so mad at me for turning on that nonsense for her

I’m trying to make my mother think ANYTHING so I put on Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City she’s never seen a Wes Anderson film; it’ll be healthy for her to make new enemies

this Italian type designer used to say a lot of this same stuff over email smacko in the middle of a professional conversation and it was always so funny when he’d decide to start in on it like Claudio baby we’re discussing letterspacing