BlONDE ROAST

John returns to lowercase L with a BlONDE Roast you can buy at Starbucks in Holland, MI.  The BlO prefix reads like the coffee is either organic or very strong.

Taxonomy FAIl

This CAT FOUND ad may be a joke, but the address written as SUNSET BlVD is not.

TYPOGRAPHY FAIl

KIM JONG Il, PART II

Update: KIM JONG IL DIES ... NOT KIM JONG Il

KIM JONG Il DIES

If it's Kim Jong Il with an uppercase i and a lowercase L, then it should read KIM JONG IL DIES in an ALL CAPS headline, no?  Alert CNN iReport! Or is that CNN lREPORT? WE MAY NEVER KNOW.

UPDATE: KIM JONG IL DIES, NOT KIM JONG Il

Driveway ClOSED

Katie explains,

Saw this outside a movie theater a few blocks from my house (Regal Cinemas in Simi Valley, CA), where the parking lot lines were being repainted. I'm not sure why they needed to ciose the driveway, but it sure seemed important. 

As an added bonus, this sign isn't even in front of a driveway, and the 'i' in "Driveway" is missing its dot. TRIPlE FAIl.

MAZEl TOV, ElANA AND DAVID

Neighbors and friends, ElANA and David, tied the knot today!

In a rare opportunity for lowercase L insight, ElANA explained that she had begun to write her initials in the sand, but when she saw that her fellow sand writers were spelling their full names, she turned what would have been a capital H into a lowercase L, followed by the rest of the letters in her first name, to save room before running into the rising tide.

ClASS on the Glass

Jeff feels that this ClASS of 2011 student at Valley Regional High School in Deep River, CT may have skipped a ClASS or two.

A Perfect lowercase L Storm

"Are you still doing this?"

That was the Subject of Berger's e-mail, no message, just the attached photo.  This lowercase L event is so perfect, even if I wasn't "doing this" anymore, I'd be compelled to bring the blog out of retirement just so I could post the photo.  Spotted in a jeweler's window around 88th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan, Berger noted that he was surprised by the flood of improperly used lowercase L's considering the ritzy address.  "FACIAl ONlY, JEWElRY MAKING, HAIR EXTENSIONS, WAlK-INS WElCOME".

And if you look closely, the uppercase i's on the sign behind the glass are unnecessarily dotted.

COlDPlAY

This is a screenshot of the video for Coldplay's latest single, "Paradise".

When she was just a girl
She expected the WORlD
But got worried when she saw the WORlD spelled
with a lowercase L.

Those are the actual lyrics.

Here's the video below.  If you don't like Coldplay, you can just sing "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster The People in its place, it lines up pretty nicely.

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Michael sets up the video:

This classic lowercase l is featured in episode 4 of Yacht Rock, the hilarious series of clips about late '70s/early '80s soft rock. Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro is explaining to the rest of the band how they're going to get Michael McDonald to sing on their song "Rosanna." They didn't succeed. Possibly because of this lowercase l.

ASK NICElY, and you can watch the video and see for yourself: