New Cities/New Soviets


09.12.06   redirect

This address is now only the older archives of New Cities/New Soviets. For the latest entries, please go to http://www.kapshow.com/pinkos/archives/new_citiesnew_soviets/index.html.

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08.16.06   Red Chef on TV

Weird. I didn't think they were going to show it around here...

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06.15.06   Announcing the creation of a SuperBlog

Hey guys. Head over to
Pinkos Parlor
for the new Kapshow Krew megablog.

I'll be making a few more posts here (trying to wrap up something which, in all probablility, cannot be "wrapped up", but whatever), but I'm also going to try to start posting New Cities/New Soviets entries over there.

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04.26.06   pushcart nyc

<h1>Pushcart NYC</h1>

check out the newest addition to the blog family, pushcartnyc.com. It's a review site for New York pushcarts. I'm trying to post one review a week, and by my estimates it should only take about 20 years to cover all the interesting carts in the 5 boroughs, as long as there are no new carts by then. Which is to say -- to anyone who wants to review a cart, help is appreciated!

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04.21.06   birds_canyon

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04.02.06   Purple Sykline Hazy

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  Comment on the picture.

Looking at the picture below makes clear what a farce all the asthetic arguments against high-rise construction amidst low-rise dwellings are.

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03.21.06   Sze Tsung Leong

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Jiefangbei, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 2002. (0211-032)

In a random search, stumbled on the sizeable on-line galleries of photographer Sze Tsung Leong via City of Sound. Cool beans.

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03.08.06   China 6: Shanghai 2

Continuing our 20-hour tour of Shanghai...

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outside the hotel, overhead wires in the daytime

Continue reading "China 6: Shanghai 2"
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  word virus: mean vs. nasty

Mean is not the opposite of nice. The rise of the notion of "mean girls" a mis-direct.

Mean refers to an emotional stinginess, not to nastiness. Many people are quite generous with their venom. Much preferable to meanness, as something of social use can be produced (even if only the reaction of recoil & destroy, like to a snake).

The worst of all are the mean & nice. Nice and nothing. The rise of a type -- women and girls who want no-one to have anything on them, give nothing to object to, even at the cost of being nothing. This is the worse danger.

Oscar tie-in: Reese Witherspoon is just such a nothing.

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