Reviews

Canadian ten-dollar bill

Stephen Osborne

The dreadful effects of “computer-assisted publishing” can be observed in the new Canadian ten-dollar bill, a specimen of which I had been carrying around for days wondering where I could have picked up such a miserable-looking coupon: even Canadian Tire isn’t this bad. On a closer look I realized that this unspeakable assemblage of clip art and press-tones was in fact “legal tender.”

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Stephen Osborne

Stephen Osborne is a co-founder and contributing publisher of Geist. He is the award-winning writer of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World and dozens of shorter works, many of which can be read at geist.com.


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