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downtown is deserted

It’s odd to encounter a downtown that is almost entirely deserted. What is it about this city that makes people flee the central hub when the ordinary work week ends? Are we just trying to escape from our jobs? Is out of sight really out of mind? I wonder what brought about this segregation of...

mall rat

Shopping malls can be suffocating places, full of overwhelmed and frenzied people, frustrated with the long lineups, disappointed with the lack of sizes, irritated by the ill-fit of a garment that looked fantastic on the headless mannequin in the front display. Malls are a confusing spectacle, designed to disorient and keep us wandering directionless like a...

night life

There’s something spectacular about a city at night. It’s as if the city is disguised by the darkness. Artificial light takes over and creates new shapes and silhouettes against the evening sky. In the city city streets people take on different forms. Like the buildings that tower above them their identities are masked and they...

might as well not go for a soda

For the first post from the complaints e-partment, (as I forgot my readings at home and have some time to kill during lunch) Hudson’s Canadian Tap House. Yesterday, in a break from the shackles of readings and homework, we went for a walk as it was a stunning 7 degree January day. We decided that,...

the apartment

Sometimes I wonder what people were thinking when they designed some buildings. Long spans of corridor are broken up by the occasional door and fire hazard door mat. The walls are bare of any sort of art and there is often a worn path in the carpet on the floor. It’s amazing to think of...

a bohemian approach

I’ve decided to give up on trying to launch this site in a near perfect form. I haven’t quite decided what I want this site to become, so for now I’m just going to work on the form and function at the same time. This site will figure out what it wants to be a...