Sooner or later all news is local and so it is that 12.36, the curiously-named daily email bulletin of St. Joseph Communications (Toronto Life and others) has noted local interest in the “Blue S” signs posted on the doors of businesses on Eglinton between Laird Drive and Sutherland Drive. The photocopied sheets mean “send the snow shovelers please” or something like that and are posted by Metrolinx. It’s all good. Most importantly, local scribbling about this coded message has again given big-city journalists something to write about. “Leaside, a place where the locals notice the smallest change to anything.” 12.36 tweeted today. But unlike other lazy places we must write it so that others may write. Just essential, this trivial local news.