My old design office had a saying: “after the blast.” It described the days where society has crumbled and designers were no longer valued for their newly irrelevant skills. We all had to have new jobs, after the blast.
Posts tagged 'america'
My Usonian Xmas
20070108Mon
Well, I’m finally ready-for-business after an extended Christmas break. All things considered, it was thoroughly Usonian. What’s that? You don’t know what “Usonian” means? Well let me enlighten you; it’s the word you’ve been looking for.
Buying American
20061201Fri
US automakers gave themselves a big pat on the back this week at the LA Auto Show. Mostly, they were just making promises to catch up with technologies that we’ve been getting from Asian automakers for years now. Meanwhile, Toyota has an operational new plant manufacturing their Tundra and it’s in Texas. So what does “buying American” mean these days?
Bush makes me proud to be an American
20061018Wed
I’ve never really thought of myself as a nationalist. Sure, the United States of America has been good to me, but I’ve avoided any jingoism over my 29 years. It wasn’t until yesterday when our president signed into law legislation that allows torture and eliminates habeas corpus that I realized how much I loved our country—and how much it hurts to see it destroyed in my generation.