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Taylor Swift’s Americana aesthetics in wartime

LB — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:42:21 +0000

All art contains politics, no matter how overt or covert or messy or inconsistent they may be. This is inevitable because all expression emanates from a particular world view, and every world view is ultimately political.

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Homemade pandemic mask patterns for the Covid-19 outbreak, & useful links

LB — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:36:13 +0000

There has been too much confusion around whether we should be wearing masks while in public during the pandemic. I’m in the “Yes” camp, and I’ve noticed that all the doctors I’ve talked to are in the Yes camp too, no matter what politicians and public officials have been saying.

Gray Metal – jewelry cast from beach plastic

LB — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:21:23 +0000

Well before the most recent wave of coverage of the crisis of plastic accumulating in our oceans, jeweler and artist Jesse Gray of Gray Metal started picking up beach plastic on Vancouver Island and casting some of it into jewelry.

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The women of the cast of Hair on Broadway, 1968

LB — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 04:54:46 +0000

Back row standing: Suzannah Norstrand, Melba Moore, Marjorie LiPari, Lynn Kellogg, Emmeretta Marks. Middle row: Natalie Mosco, Lorrie Davis, Diane Keaton. Front row sitting: Shelley Plimpton, Leata Galloway

Progress isn’t a straight line, so feminism isn’t on a straight line either.

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You make a grown man cry

LB — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:26:54 +0000

Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and the other very excited nerds at the Windows 95 launch.

Fitting because I was helping my mother with her work PC earlier and it was really was like going back in time.

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National Aboriginal Day – Wab Kinew’s “500 years in 2 minutes”

LB — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:33:00 +0000

Happy National Aboriginal Day everyone!

Wab Kinew, always concise, does 500 years of ‘Canadian’ history in 2 minutes.

“When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s” – an abridged version of my hipster essay is now in Briarpatch Magazine

LB — Thu, 07 May 2015 21:58:19 +0000

Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux.

If you want to read the original and longer post (with a far drier title) it is here: Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.

Murder Murder

LB — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:53:00 +0000

Apparently this is not a renegade settler war party, it’s a new “bloodgrass” band from Sudbury in Northern Ontario called Murder Murder. You can listen to their banjo-esque non-Northern-Ontario-ish neo-bluegrass murdery numbers at the link above.

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Mountain Don’t

LB — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:24:47 +0000

As a friend pointed out upon seeing this ad, “do we really need Mad Max meets Deliverance”? Actually it would be great to see Tina Turner showing up and knocking something over, a table maybe, or the narrative, but she is exactly not what this nostalgic fantasy is about.

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DSquared’s provocational fashion line & #Dsquaw hashtag

LB — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:09:29 +0000

Despite all the backlash to Ralph Lauren’s genocide chic advertising campaign last year, it seems designers have either learned nothing, or conversely they’ve learned that outrage is free and effective PR in the fashion world.