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Nice little bit of retroactive justification over at the boston globe editorial page—gen X “slackers” were actually keenly preparing for the economic contraction, “busy working on a more workable model … creating something worthwhile – a sustainable neighborhood, a tech future, a life we can manage.”  Vindication is the sweetest nectar.  And [...]

futile but funny

from an email sent to us by a HAVC professor:
This was not hard to recognize as a fraud. but should you warn others?
[redacted]
Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture
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University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[redacted]@ucsc.edu
>To: tech.service8@live.com
>From: [redacted] <[redacted]@ucsc.edu>
>Subject: Re: EMAIL ACCOUNT MAINTENANCE
> >if you can’t write proper english you should go soak [...]

for my own reference

and perhaps your edification, too:

filched from i love typography

fashion writing

just… fun to read.
“Picture a cross between Pee-wee Herman and Nurse Ratched, only more obsessive-compulsive.”
An Uneasy Hug From Thom Browne

to put it in perspective

some young people (less now than before koolaid of my father was released) have a hard time understanding how national politics is relevant to their everyday lives.  this is especially true in cases when the topic of discussion is how to spend dollar figures that have more zeros behind them than Isoroku Yamamoto.  some individuals [...]

cocina de mexico

wherein the author pretends to be a food critic and falls short:

over the past few months I have been compiling an unofficial mental list of the best mexican places in santa cruz.  above is a prime example of the kind of food I’m looking for: the machete taco from taqueria los pinos downtown.  As you [...]