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Calgary Transit Bans Naked Baby

By David W. Boles on October 19, 2009 8:39 AM | 2 Comments
Calgary Transit doesn't want naked babies on its advertising billboards.  Especially one that is 16 feet long, smeared in blood and with its umbilical cord in plain view. 

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Big Feral Houses for You and Me

By David W. Boles on September 23, 2009 8:12 AM | 2 Comments
John Mellencamp sardonically made us fall in love with "Little Pink Houses" as a sing along national anthem for the perceived perfection of the 1950's American Dream of home ownership.  Today, we turn our naked ears and wanting eyes to Detroit to see "Big Feral Houses" pocking neighborhoods and caterwauling the impending death of the urban core.

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Fifty Percent Infected and Ninety Thousand Dead

By David W. Boles on September 1, 2009 8:30 AM | 6 Comments
In April, we warned you about the coming Swine Flu Pandemic and since that time, over 800,000 people have been infected with the H1N1 virus in New York City alone -- that's ten percent of the city's population.  There are three preternatural population controls:  War, Famine and a worldwide Pandemic.  Clutch your hat and buckle your shoes as half of us are whittled away.  We're in for even more flu terror in the coming months.  We have not yet begun to suffer.

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Pedaling Bipedals

By David W. Boles on July 7, 2009 7:23 AM | 6 Comments
We can ride in urban chariots, or we can do the right thing and use our own predestined people power to motor us from endpoint to endpoint.  Take a look at the image below to see how moving 72 people can "shrink the road" and prevent city congestion just by getting on two wheels and pressing our legs forward in circles -- and if you will give in to the wiles of public transportation, the savings are even greater:

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The Bansky Semiotic

By David W. Boles on May 21, 2009 6:52 AM | 3 Comments
Who is Bansky? Bansky is an urban semiotic enigma.  Nobody really knows his name or who he is and none of that matters because his urban art speaks in the whole.

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Urban Chariot

By David W. Boles on April 7, 2009 8:08 AM | 6 Comments
Is this ridiculous thing -- reeking of foppish desperation and geek fantasia -- the new Urban Chariot?  Is our future so doomed by the economy that we'll be coerced into actually traveling the streets of Manhattan and rolling along the suburban wilds in a P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility) from Segway and General Motors?  We know the future is round, but must it also be ugly as well as silly?

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Urbanization in the Year 2100

By David W. Boles on March 31, 2009 7:55 AM | 8 Comments
We know half the world is urban -- but what will our world look like in the year 2100?  We will be compressed even further up and away from each other in skyscrapers?  Or will we begin to winnow out and find room to stretch the horizon?

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