September 2010
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City Scene
Walking along Bayou St. John in the late morning we turned with the bayou up towards where Carrollton Ave. meets Canal St. In my frame of view was the bayou, relatively placid, and bridge where a mother was pushing her child in a carriage. In the distance I could see Carrollton Ave. and there was a street car coasting along, a few bicycles riding in opposite directions, cars driving by, and people...
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“Design must be like ‘ze goot English butler’—ever-present, but...”
– Dieter Rams, quoted in Does Minimalism Matter?
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“I never really thought of it in those terms before, but I think I hear what...”
– Such a perfect description of the Devo version of “(I can’t get no) Satisfaction”. Long live the disaffected, alienated feeling of post-punk.
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The Big Uneasy
Last night I saw The Big Uneasy, Harry Shearer’s documentary about the levee failures after Hurricane Katrina. We all know that it was the faulty levees and not the storm itself that put 80% of New Orleans underwater but the extent of the Army Corps of Engineers negligence and outright denial of any preceding problems was, and still is, incomprehensible.
A certain part of the...