Looming Debate, by Veronique Vienne (Metropolis Magazine) – Annotated Interesting article (with some inaccuracies, too), focused chiefly on Bertrand Delanoe, the “Situationist”-inspired left-leaning, assassination attempt survivor and openly gay mayor of Paris, who gets blind-sided by Nikolas Sarkozy, the pro-business president of France, who wants Paris to be a bit more get-go-ish. Delanoe is on […]
For god’s sake, someone fire this woman and start over with the “Canadian Competition Bureau” while you’re at it! Yet another article in the paper on Rogers‘s colossal f*ck-up with the iPhone: iPhone rate plans from Rogers spark consumer protest. But this one distinguishes itself for the closing quote by Marilyn Nahum, identified as the […]
Sleep-deprived but feeling like it’s vacation time, I’m happy to say I finally got my August FOCUS Magazine article finished (it was due some days ago). Maybe it took forever to write because it deals with BC Provincial Legislation, which is typically written in language that has the effect of a soporific potion. I challenge […]
Welcome to Underachiever Island is the name of an article by Carolyn Heiman, in today’s local paper. Although I swore I’d abstain from the paper’s “sound off” functionality, I couldn’t resist leaving a comment after looking up the backstory behind Heiman’s piece. I’m especially intrigued by Michael Ross, who sparked Roy Weston’s letter, and wonder […]
Scanning through my RSS feeds this afternoon, I came across Regine Debatty’s 6/30/08 blog post, Interactivos? workshop: Augment(o)scope, which included a photo of Madrid’s CaixaForum, as redone by Herzog & de Meuron. I had come across the image months ago, but today it clicked with the problem of the Janion Hotel (or Janion Building), an […]
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