Latest writing on or off-topic
- Design
I love a fast food mascot that admonishes you.
There's something so very Québec about the rooster mascot for the chain restaurant "St-Hubert" - that finger wagging could be for any number of reasons, all fixable by excessive regulation.
- Canada, design, fast food, mascots, Montreal, Quebec
- New York
Prognoses for NYC from an outsider looking inward.
New York CIty of today? Still the biggest, singular superpower in a large cohort of global cities, but in a very slow decline.
- Analysis, economy, New York, NYC
- Design
The first and last annual License Plate Awards
This is my list of the best and worst license plates, for various reasons, and some are simply ones I love to hate.
- design, Slogans, Typefaces, US States
- Personal
I guess he’d rather be in Colorado
I am spending some time in Denver before heading all of the way west. To that end, I would rather live in the imagined Denver that never was.
- Colorado, Denver, Photos, Retro
- Music
Sledgehammer: A self-help motivator in the form of a pop song
The video to "Sledgehammer" reads like Teletubbies on angel dust, or a kindergarten K hole. But the lyrics of the song are inspiring and a call to arms for someone who's down on their luck.
- 1980's, Analysis, Music, Peter Gabriel, Pop music
- Family, Nostalgia
Memory lane rabbit hole: photos from my childhood
I had some foresight to scan many of my childhood and family photos, before they were stolen out of my car.
- 1980's, 1990's, Childhood, Nostalgia, Photos, scanned photos, school portraits, Texas
MIXTAPES curated musical journeys
Empire State Human
Sage comme une image
Theoretical China (理论中国)
Untergang des Abendlandes
Strawberry girls & Banana split ladies
Quiet Storms & Basic Women
Themes for great cities
ABBA Obscura
SCRAPBOOK stuff worth saving
