Cringe List, Part 1: Alessi
I always meant to initiate a regular feature about bad design but for a long time I didn’t have the heart for it. For one thing, finding insincere design is like shooting fish in a barrel. For another...
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Dancing to Transformer inside the old Crying Room space a few weeks ago, oblivious and laughing at 4 am while singing along to: And curtains laced with diamonds dear for you And all the Roman Noblemen...
View ArticleGoodbye Mork
Shazbot. Sad loss of Robin Williams today. Thanks for the many laughs. And Robin before a Senate committee on preventing homelessness ...read more
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Photo: Dylan Martinez/Reuters Purple is associated with mourning as well as all the better known things—royalty, magic and spirituality etc. Somehow I’d forgotten this until Prince died. I am so...
View ArticleHow to Speak Poetry, by Leonard Cohen
How to Speak Poetry by Leonard Cohen Take the word butterfly. To use this word it is not necessary to make the voice weigh less than an ounce or equip it with small dusty wings. It is not necessary to...
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