Twilight time to dream awhile in veils of deepening blue as fantasy strides over colourful skies of form disappearing from view;

It appears that Pantone has been either listening to a lot of Billie Holiday since the new millennium or its members have spent large amounts of time on the water: 
Color of the Year (from NY Times sidebar), 2000-2008:
2000:

 Cerulean Blue: Chosen for the millennium for its calming zen state of mind. 

2003:

Aqua Sky: A cool blue [...]

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Arial is not Helvetica;

John Coltrane, Coltrane Live at the Village Vangaurd Again!, recorded 1966, photo taken 3:27 PM, 12/26/07.

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There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted more than to never feel the breaking apart all my pictures of you;

            Times, they have-a changed since college.  During my four years of schooling, this time of year would mean me slaving over a copier or a cash register, cranking out photo calendars (for $24.99 for the first, but quantity discounts applied!) in addition to fulfilling the crazy orders of stressed marketing executives who needed those [...]

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A green plastic watering can for a fake Chinese rubber plant in the fake plastic earth that she bought from a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans to get rid of itself;

Or:  In Defense of Music in Commercials

            Commercialism and art have always had a symbiotic relationship mostly due to two facts:  people (in this case, artists) need food, water and shelter in order to live, and there’s always someone willing to pay for that (at least in part) if it will elevate their position in [...]

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Arial is not Helvetica;

 Newburyport, MA, November 4, early afternoon (exact time unknown).

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Oh, a storm is threat’ning my very life today. If I don’t get some shelter oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away;

I love the eyewear in Martin Scorsese’s films so much I drug Michael to the South Norwalk American Apparel to buy me vintage sunglasses as my Christmas present: 

(Robert DeNiro in Casino, 1995)

(Cybill Shepherd in Taxi Driver, 1976)
 I’m really excited to wear them.

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Sometimes I get overcharged—that’s when you see sparks. You ask me where they hell I’m going at a thousand feet per second—hey man, slow down, slow down. Idiot—slow down, slow down;

As it’s now December, I’m seeing evidence of the annual addition of passengers on my morning commute:  day trippers.  A few joined me on my shuttle ride back to the garage on a handful of evenings, and this morning a small coterie of women with young children thought it would be a lovely idea to [...]

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