The Monkees
Frank Zappa and Mike Nesmith Update: Goodbye Davy Jones, 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012. You were the sweet, lovely heart of the Monkees. Memory of Davy by Peter Tork. The television show The...
View Article“Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic.”
Am tired of the Shit_____Says meme, but do look at Shit Vivienne Westwood Says anyway. It’s via the green fashion site Ecouterre. A few samples from it are reproduced here. Westwood’s design work has...
View ArticleVivienne Westwood: The whole 20th C was a mistake
Via The Guardian: “A status symbol is a book… that’s status.” “Punk was just an excuse for people to run around…it was just a fashion that became a marketing opportunity.” “The whole 20th C was a...
View ArticleDesign & politics & newspapers who fire cartoonists for mocking pipeline...
Well it’s the last day of 2012, the end of another alarming year in a string of alarming years. These are not times to be proud of in Vancouver, in British Columbia or especially in Canada. Still, the...
View Article“Christy Clark just wants your love”
It might be hard to fully appreciate the brilliance of this performance unless you’re familiar with the vocal mannerisms of British Columbia’s Premier Christy Clark. But this mimicry is easily as good...
View ArticleThe “Non-Partisan” Association, Vancouver’s zombie political party
This post is for Vancouverites who are either new to the city or who are urban or civic politics nerds but may not be acquainted with the early historical roots of the local civic political party...
View ArticlePublic squares & dissent – Julian Assange, Slavoj Žižek, Amy Goodman
For those who haven’t seen it, here’s the video of the discussion between Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Julian Assange of Wikileaks, and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It took place in London...
View ArticleYou Know Things are Messed Up When Librarians Start Marching
Most of the photos here were taken by a friend of mine, Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, at Occupy Wall Street. Reproduced here with permission. See his whole gallery of Occupy Wall Street photos....
View ArticleOccupy Vancouver
The sign above bears a quote from philosopher Bertrand Russell: “Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principle of liberty, which can be embodied in one maxim, “the fortunate...
View ArticleEverything is OK! And the police need a hug.
Performance art/ political social satire enacted in London by The Love Police. “Everything you read in the mainstream media is 100% true! Consume consume consume! What you need to do is buy things you...
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