R.I.P
RAW
a slight fire has ended the g-star

Upgrades:
new bed
featherbed (i think i'm using it properly)
duvet cover
new art from the 'just streets' art fair (artist: imminent threat)

Brooklyn Industries?

Earlier this morning I was thumbing through the Brooklyn Industries catalog and came across a rather startling discovery. Now before I actually detail my discovery I would like to explain a few things. Some of you might attack me with the "brown hat/white hat" card, but honestly these things do actually come up, and when they are noticed somebody should at least make fun of the companies. To my defense, lately I have been looking at what sort of market companies are advertising towards, and what sort of models they use for these marketing schemes. I mean really the models aren't real people anyway, but who cares.
So, Brooklyn Industries, the company that prides itself on "urban-wear", professing the greatness of the (best) borough of New York by labeling their clothes, and accesories with Brooklyn pride uses all white models for their catalog. Now a borough that is almost sixty percent non-white should really be properly represented by the clothing company that represents it, i think. Brooklyn Industries even goes on to use the iconic water towers of the Gowanus Projects as their logo, portraying the "Brooklyn Skyline." That was the projects I mentioned earlier for all of you who don't read closely, and I'm not going to make any rash overarching statements, but I'm pretty sure that my seventy-five dollar bag does not market towards the people who live in the Gowanus Projects. Now personally I don't have any huge problems with Brooklyn Industries, mostly because I look badass in my new bag, but maybe they should go for some of the marketing techniques Talbot's uses, and use a different skyline of "Brooklyn". I'm thinking something more like Williamsburg, or that new apartment that sold down by the water for something like 3.1 million (the one with the giant clock window). But oh doesn't it feel great to make money off of gentrification?

IDOLATRY WILL KILL YOU IN TIME

Currently Reading:
The Culture Industry by Teodor Adorno

Happening: October 25th, 8pm
Bryan Charles, author of Grab on to me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, is having a reading on October 25th at Happy Ending in the East Village. His last reading, at the Bookcourt in Brooklyn, had a very poor showing even though the piece he read was as inspiring and twisted as his first novel. From what he told me, he should be continuing the second half to the same piece with the possibility of a few other short stories. If you are interested in the haphazardous lives of Kalamazoo kids, and like a good story, this reading should be pretty awesome.
To go to Bryan Charles' myspace site click here.

The procrasitnation has lasted long enough... time to join the bottomless pit of bloggers and web junkies (i.e. people interested in pipes and plumbing).