Weekend 221.1

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) Brave New World (is Here!) (2) Rebel Cel (WSJ) (2a) A related quote from Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler It was Zack Schwartz, Continue Reading →

Weekend 221.0 (It’s all borrowed time)

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) What Will Survive of Us Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is Continue Reading →

Weekend 220.1

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) I would run to you (advertisement for NIKE) (1a) Joel Kotkin: The Great California Exodus (WSJ) (2) Suddenly Simple: Authentic, organic and local isn’t just about your food—American minimalist Continue Reading →

Weekend 220.0 (Send in the Clowns)

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) Man Bites Dog “The Obama administration was from the outset a clown car heading for disaster, the unholy issue of ’30s mobsters and ’60s Marxists, slickly packaged for a Continue Reading →

Easter 2012

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Winston Smith

“And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, Continue Reading →

Weekend 219.0

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Winston Smith

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. – Vincent Van Gogh (1) How cities fail their cyclists in different ways (2) Continue Reading →

Brazing

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Winston Smith

Older articles but something I wanted to keep… (1) Royal Mail scrap bicycles for safety reasons (2) Brompton Launches London Bike Share Program (2a) South West Trains Launches UK’s First Continue Reading →

Weekend 218.0 (Monuments out of moments)

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) Espousing the Marriage to Slowness (WSJ) This rhythm ricochets through “Collected Poems,” the complete sentence yielding to a sequence of fragments. The grammar impedes the action, performing the “marriage Continue Reading →

Weekend 217.1 (Crony Capitalism Edition)

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Winston Smith

Crony Capitalism ALERT Rival: City’s bike-sharing program ‘tainted’ A rival bidder is trying to put the brakes on Chicago’s plan to launch the nation’s largest bike sharing program — by Continue Reading →

Weekend 217.0

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Winston Smith

(1) Orchidelirium: Blooming on everything from fabric to fine china, orchids are the season’s most intoxicating flowers (WSJ) (2) Is it worth buying British bikes? (3) The Man Behind the Continue Reading →