antipopper

Last night I had an embarrassing dream that I visited Apple’s headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. There was a huge Apple museum, which featured all sorts of stuff that I must have absorbed from reading Andy Hertzfeld’s Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. I also noticed that all the signage was in the outdated Apple Garamond typeface, rather than in Apple Myriad. I know, you’re thinking, how much worse can this get? But then I’m in the Apple cafeteria, and find myself sitting next to Julia Sawalha — Saffy from Absolutely Fabulous. I introduce myself, and compliment her on her performance in the excellent Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death. Then I turn around and find that sitting to my other side is none other than Paul McGann, the rather good Eighth Doctor from the unfortunate Doctor Who telemovie. I suddenly have a realisation. “That’s funny,” I say to them both, “you’ve both starred in one-off Doctor Who stories that featured Doctor-companion romance.” They both look at me like I’m on drugs. I really wish my brain would stop working like this. It would be better for all concerned.

[Update: when I published this entry, my blogging client software went into an infinite loop, spewing out an endless stream of "your entry has been published" messages.]

[ tags: andy-hertzfeld, apple, doctorwho, dream, garamond, myriad, typography ]