Brand New has an insightful article on the evolution of the logo of Vancouver’s soccer/football team

Love the Avenir typeface. But it is hard to take the nickname ‘Whitecaps’ referring to the mountaintops rather than the waves.

It’s obviously based on the American experience, but this audio discussion of copyright termination is fascinating.

In it, copyright guru David Nimmer, UC Berkeley Professor Peter Menell and UCLA Professor Doug Lichtman discuss copyright disputes of Superman, Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Lassie, and Winnie the Pooh.

Pal Ryan gets the blame, along with Canadian Notes & Queries editor John Metcalf, for the sorry state of Canadian criticism in The Walrus. Ryan is non-plussed.

David Frum

Canada’s newly-built places are often homes to new Canadians. These areas carry too little memory of Canadian history and Canadian accomplishment. Public memorials, statues and other reminders of the Canadian past are crowded into older central cities. As things stand, the Surreys and the Woodbridges could be any suburbs anywhere. They too need their connections to the shared national story — a story their residents have volunteered to join. As with the landscaping projects, there could be a contest to build 100 historical monuments in the country’s 100 fastest growing urban zones: their own memorials to Canada’s wars, to the expansion of democracy and human rights, and to both proud and tragic moments in Canadian history.

It’s a good point, even if it is from a Frum.

Law is Cool)

Some how-tos on visiting Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, North Korea, and Somaliland.

Michael Bate, founder of the Ottawa edition of Frank and its longtime editor, is also a fan of Gram Parsons.

From the Guardian, 1962, ‘How to write a thriller’

I never correct anything and I never go back to what I have written, except to the foot of the last page to see where I have got to. If you once look back, you are lost. How could you have written this drivel? How could you have used “terrible” six times on one page? And so forth. If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you…

building-blocks:

[campaign poster]

In 1970, Hunter S Thompson campaigned on a ‘freakpower’ ticket and was very nearly elected sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. 

Aided and abetted by artist Tom Benton, who designed this poster.

Every word. All ten volumes. Anyone who says the inquiry missed something, just point them there.

The latest edition has Robert Crumb and Katherine Dunne, both of whom I can always use more.