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The Hitler Youth haircut: what it’s actually expressing

LB — Tue, 27 May 2014 01:18:58 +0000

Update: this feels all the more pressing now, since this US election. If you want to hear Chomsky’s post-election comments on white male entitlement and rage, it’s here.

When you have oil pipeline companies, who needs satire?

LB — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 02:45:16 +0000

Giant U.S. oil/energy mega-corp Kinder Morgan has applied to triple the size of a pipeline across British Columbia, bringing dirty bitumen-laced oil from the Alberta Tar Sands. “Public” hearings to assess the application have been notoriously non-public.

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Vancouver Airport plans “luxury outlet” mall, bastard child of Disneyland and Bouncy Castle

LB — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:39:30 +0000

Trying to laugh instead of cry over the announcement by Vancouver airport of a kitsch faux-nineteenth century monstrosity of a "luxury outlet mall" next to our quite attractive, Pacific NW contemporary airport with its forest water features, stunning aquariums and significant First Nations art.

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Ecce Vancouver

LB — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:00:12 +0000

Vancouver, is that your motto?

Out with the old, in with the new?

Meanwhile, this questionable object will replace The Ridge Theatre, one of Vancouver’s few historic repertory cinemas:

Apparently this passed a City of Vancouver design panel.

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“Contempo” – my term for the insincere faux-modern design style infecting our lives

LB — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:06:28 +0000

There is a particular type of contemporary design that I deeply despise but for which there is no terminology. About six years ago, out of frustration, I started calling it “contempo.” It is a deliberately cheesy term for a cheesy aesthetic, an aesthetic of dumbed-down, cutesy faux-modernism.

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LB — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:18:33 +0000

Hey spammers, slow down and use spellcheck! I know you’re in a rush what with only 4-6 weeks to get your degree but come on:

Respects !
Lindsay

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