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Happy New Year!

LB — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:53:13 +0000

Who she was, and whether she was led astray that night, are lost to history, but I hope she was celebrating New Year’s in the way she thought best. Happy New Year, everyone.

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You asked for half a cup of coffee

LB — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:53:52 +0000

Mixed-concept mug for friends of owls who only want half a cup of coffee, and who don’t mind if their faux-wood-handled Canadiana is made in Japan.

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Douglas Coupland’s Canada House

LB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:03:44 +0000

The writer Douglas Coupland (“Generation X”), who has been interested in Canadiana for a long time, recently went about finding a classic 70s “builder’s special” house slated for demolition, filled it with objects constructed from the Canadian paraphernalia of his childhood, and then staged a party in it.

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Official Montreal ’76 Olympics poster that would never pass a committee now

LB — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:36:33 +0000

Poster by Raymond Bellemare for the Canadian Graphics and Design Directorate (Graphisme et Dessin) of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Olympic Games, Montreal

Only 32 years have passed since this fantastic official poster for the 1976 Montreal Olympics was produced, but from a 2008 vantage point it’s hard to imagine how a committee ever okayed it.