Mr. Peanut and the Imaginary Mayor

24Mar09

Dan Savage’s recent post on Slog announcing the possibility of his running for mayor of Seattle couldn’t help but evoke this image in my mind:

Mr. Peanut, artist Vincent Trasov, image by Bob Strazicich, from Megaphone: Vancouver’s Street Paper
I unexpectedly met the Mr. Peanut suit from Vincent Trasov and John Mitchell’s 1974 Vancouver mayoral campaign [...]

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Tags: baudrillard, dan savage, john mitchell, mayor, mr. peanut, performance art, seattle, simulacra, vancouver, vincent trasov, watergate

Suburban Utopia via YouTube

15Apr08

On the Slog a few weeks back, Charles Mudede linked to the article “On Borrowed Time, Urban Decline Moves to the Suburbs” by Michael Gecan in the Boston Review. Gecan questions the sustainability of the upper class suburbs that prospered substantially over the last two decades, citing DuPage County as a premiere example and [...]

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Tags: disney, personal, simulacra, suburbia, utopia