For a summer movie promotion, 7-11 has transformed 12 of their locations into stores that sell shoddy, overpriced merchandise run by Third World immigrants.  This has to be the cheapest “transformation” on record.  I mean, what did they really have to change here? But the Washington Post dutifully writes about their publicity stunt here: 7-Elevens [...]

BAMN! This “hip” new restaurant in Greenwich Village looks a whole lot like the old Horn & Hardart Automats that were all over Manhattan when I was a kid.  Back then, they were populated by old people who would sit around all day over a cup of coffee and perhaps a piece of pie.  Now, [...]

It has been said that in this world there are two kinds of people; those who separate others into ‘kinds’ and those who don’t … we take one kind and make them into another. Consider this to be creative cultural shapeshifting: the awakening of image and consciousness without prior existential tangibility. It begins with the [...]