All that is solid…….
2019-01-20
….melts or dissolves or is simply shown to be the historical confabulation that it is.Continue Reading
Post Brexit: Affordable housing for 50,000 at Buckingham Palace
2019-01-17
A Munich-based architecture practice has written an open letter to the queen, asking that she consider sharing her palace with those less fortunate.Continue Reading
Local Journalist Linda Gyulai Adds Another Missing Piece to Montreal’s Municpal Management Puzzle
2019-01-13
Linda Gyulai has been one of Montreal’s top investigative reporters for quite a while and her in-depth articles on corruption and slight of hand over the years at city hall reads like a B movie script with a cast of of smiling shifty grifters in suits that includes mayors, cityContinue Reading
One’s [odd] place in the world
2019-01-08
In the interview with Marie-Claire magazine’s French edition, Moix, the author of several prize-winning novels, added that women in their 50s were “invisible” to him. “I prefer younger women’s bodies, that’s all. End of. The body of a 25-year-old woman is extraordinary. The body of a woman of 50 isContinue Reading
Hyperventilation Is Over The Wall
2019-01-07
The latest quote from Trump concerning the stalemate over funding his WALL: “I may declare a national emergency dependent on what’s going to happen over the next few days, we’re looking at it very strongly. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked allContinue Reading
A Fully Biodegradable Cork Shed for the Backyard
2018-12-20
In my google search for an image for this article I got a series of photo’s of streets in Cork, Ireland. So I went with that. The structure featured in the article might frighten the neighbours after a few years but it is only cosmetic. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/12/20/bark-studio-cork-studio-recyclable-building-sustainable-architecture/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen+CID_7cc8ea51bb2d22edfe83483263e90d8d&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Studio%20Bark%20buildsContinue Reading
How come I had figured this out without joining?
2018-12-19
The military is something that never made any sense to me. I was never able to see any sensible reason for it. My dad spent time in uniform after being drafted during WWII. He never made much sense of it. We were all tremendously lucky that as an IT guyContinue Reading
Motormouth’s David Booth Rolls in Style over the Global Warming Issue…
2018-12-17
Driving a new Ferrari Portofino, which starts at $215,000 Dave toured some of the burnt landscape on the elevated areas devastated by California’s recent horrific wild fires. Half way through the review he states…‘Of course, some of you are reading and thinking me crass for driving a Ferrari — ofContinue Reading
Not so deep state Part III – The Toll
2018-11-25
The fact that that the world is both made up of individuals and institutions neither means that the former govern the latter, nor that the former are eclipsed by the latter. It is a more complex influential interaction. What this article and the book it reviews show is how thisContinue Reading