Japanese kids come in to my work all the time. They tend to be dressed the coolest (think layers, combining uber-baggy with fitted clothes, bordering on tacky but looking good). Some of these kids are studying here (or in Canada), others are just visitng, some have lived here their whole lives.
There is a certain feeling [...]
(Retail adVenture #2)
I’ve come to the conclusion that the entire industry I work in is a product of over-consumption and the expansion of capitalism which eventually requires fractionalization.
Let me break that down. The over-consumption part is more obvious. The endlessly dying mantra ‘buy, buy, buy’ is the reason my industry lives. There are some people [...]
To quote a song that I can only remember the hook for: back in the day when I was young, I’m not a kid any more, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
This is the horrendous cycle:
Get up, go to work, leave work very tired, then either:
go out for a [...]
(Retail adVenture #1. This entry and the next 2 are due to me not having time to write, but these thoughts somehow got out.)
Leaving my mini-fashion world in my mid-calf, pointed-toe, 1 1/2″ Fornarina pump boots, my feet were starting to throb in time with my head. My mind still racing from the running around [...]
Where else has this happened?
Africa, that’s where. Keep up with some FMs here. And now, late in the game as it is, I’m going to find out what Smart Mobs are all about.
So today I have a day off, sort of. I’m going in to look at and approve the proof for the magazine/paper thingy I’ve been doing. I haven’t said anything about this on my blog yet, but now that it’s (pretty much) done I can say this:
I’m exhausted. I want to work on magazine again. [...]
Suffering News Burnout? The Rest of America Is, Too
“The total evening news audience on the broadcast networks is lower than it was during the summer of 2001, suggesting that Americans have burned out on serious news.”
“American soldiers are dying in Iraq almost daily, questions are continuing to swirl around the Bush administration’s case for [...]
