Doug
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I had no idea, but this reminds me of Sears’s slow death.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I had no idea, but this reminds me of Sears’s slow death.
I was afraid I was in the only cloudy place in the whole country tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I was afraid I was in the only cloudy place in the whole country tonight.
(Seems like what's actually going on here is an overly literal translation from Japanese that sounds silly in English and doesn't convey the meaning well!)
yes, imo it would’ve been better to word it differently and capitalize it. perhaps A Length of Cloth might have given the rarified air that it has in japanese:
「衣服とは、人間に最も近いもの。すべてのデザインは交差します。アート、デザイン、その他のクリエイティブな活動の間に境界はありません。服を一枚の布から作る── そんな最古の文明のもっともシンプルなアイデアに、私のすべての作品は通じる。それが、私の原点です」
「衣服とは、人間に最も近いもの。すべてのデザインは交差します。アート、デザイン、その他のクリエイティブな活動の間に境界はありません。服を一枚の布から作る── そんな最古の文明のもっともシンプルなアイデアに、私のすべての作品は通じる。それが、私の原点です」
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
(Seems like what's actually going on here is an overly literal translation from Japanese that sounds silly in English and doesn't convey the meaning well!)
OK so maybe it is not a joke but it is malpractice by the press release writer to translate it in a way that sounds ridiculous in English.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
OK so maybe it is not a joke but it is malpractice by the press release writer to translate it in a way that sounds ridiculous in English.
The Maryland and Pennsylvania ones at least have similarities.
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Maryland and Pennsylvania ones at least have similarities.
I hate it SO MUCH. Not just vertical video but the whole genre of "a video of a person staring at me talking at me," although vertical is worse. Just...absolutely not.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I hate it SO MUCH. Not just vertical video but the whole genre of "a video of a person staring at me talking at me," although vertical is worse. Just...absolutely not.
Railing against immigrants from other countries will also rightly get you called out as xenophobic, which railing against domestic migrants generally won't.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Railing against immigrants from other countries will also rightly get you called out as xenophobic, which railing against domestic migrants generally won't.
"Moves to NYC for college and stays" is definitely a big source of domestic migrants in general. My own circles don't really have more people from the West Coast than the Midwest in them though (but of course the Midwest is closer and has more people).
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"Moves to NYC for college and stays" is definitely a big source of domestic migrants in general. My own circles don't really have more people from the West Coast than the Midwest in them though (but of course the Midwest is closer and has more people).
Yeah this also describes a fairly large share of the people I know who were born/grew up somewhere in the US outside the metro area (although in most cases it's somewhere else in the Northeast, not always).
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Yeah this also describes a fairly large share of the people I know who were born/grew up somewhere in the US outside the metro area (although in most cases it's somewhere else in the Northeast, not always).
But even if I hadn't, a low single digit number of people is...not many!
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
But even if I hadn't, a low single digit number of people is...not many!
I forgot that multiple people who grew up in the Chicago area did, LOL.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I forgot that multiple people who grew up in the Chicago area did, LOL.
Oh true, Iowa does get invoked a fair bit. I am unable to think of anyone I've even *met* who moved here from Iowa. I have known a few people who moved here from Ohio over the years, at least. Of course, Ohio is a very populous state...
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Oh true, Iowa does get invoked a fair bit. I am unable to think of anyone I've even *met* who moved here from Iowa. I have known a few people who moved here from Ohio over the years, at least. Of course, Ohio is a very populous state...
I've since thought of two more, in fact (yourself included)—although I feel like the stereotypical Midwestern transplant is not ever really from Chicagoland.
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I've since thought of two more, in fact (yourself included)—although I feel like the stereotypical Midwestern transplant is not ever really from Chicagoland.
Definitely. I guess in my mind I’m specifically thinking of the culture industry having been temporarily a bit more accessible by the overlap between widespread higher education and relatively low rents in the places where it’s located.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Definitely. I guess in my mind I’m specifically thinking of the culture industry having been temporarily a bit more accessible by the overlap between widespread higher education and relatively low rents in the places where it’s located.
Yeah, my point is not that it’s wildly uncommon, but that it gets presented as near-universal (and I suspect some people do have social circles where it is). Living in the same metro area if not the literal same neighborhood/town (although sometimes that, too) where you grew up is common!
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Yeah, my point is not that it’s wildly uncommon, but that it gets presented as near-universal (and I suspect some people do have social circles where it is). Living in the same metro area if not the literal same neighborhood/town (although sometimes that, too) where you grew up is common!
I actually associate it with a somewhat later era, it scans as very boomer-ish to me (importantly, the first generation that encountered mass higher education), although I’m sure it has antecedents.
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I actually associate it with a somewhat later era, it scans as very boomer-ish to me (importantly, the first generation that encountered mass higher education), although I’m sure it has antecedents.
It’s hardly rare now, but the degree to which it’s presented as *the norm* is odd—it’s not like this was ever a time when this would have been true of the majority of people. But it’s probably disproportionately true of TV or movie writers in NYC and LA, perhaps especially a few decades ago.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It’s hardly rare now, but the degree to which it’s presented as *the norm* is odd—it’s not like this was ever a time when this would have been true of the majority of people. But it’s probably disproportionately true of TV or movie writers in NYC and LA, perhaps especially a few decades ago.
I am always struck by how much it is a widespread cultural assumption that people go “back to their hometown” for holidays, as if the country is divided between “hometowns” populated exclusively by parents of adult children and cities populated entirely by people who moved there from somewhere else.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I am always struck by how much it is a widespread cultural assumption that people go “back to their hometown” for holidays, as if the country is divided between “hometowns” populated exclusively by parents of adult children and cities populated entirely by people who moved there from somewhere else.