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n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

raincoaster — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:41:51 EST

I'll take any amount of condescention if it means I can get Kenneth Cole knockoffs for $15 bucks Canadian the same season.

raincoaster

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

Mike Barthel — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:18:12 EST

True, it can get a little recursive.

Mike Barthel

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

Flashman — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:09:31 EST

n+1, you could say more, but why?

Flashman

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

Sigerson Holmes — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:00:06 EST

It's tempting to offer the Kristevan view on this, but I won't.

Sigerson Holmes

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

Gynoklastes — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:14:48 EST

lypocenes -- daaaaamn. So right.

Gynoklastes

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

KittyPryde — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:01:50 EST

You know, I miss the days when orange and black were acceptable logo colors for products. Every time I see an old Minute Maid orange juice carton, I get nostalgia pangs.

Probably because my family was sorta' broke back then and having that orange and black container in the fridge was always a sign of my parents having a good month...

KittyPryde

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

sheistolerable — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:00:48 EST

Wow, he's so right. "Payliss." That would be why the new logo makes the word "Payless" bigger and hides the word "shoe," and also, it makes sense, because people who pay $20 for shoes (myself included) are DEEPLY ASHAMED.

sheistolerable

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

lypocenes — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:59:54 EST

well, dr. christian, spare the wrod, spoil the wtatwaffle

lypocenes

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

Moff — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:49:44 EST

Oh, I keep feeling guilty about the debut issue of n+1 that a friend pressed into my hands over a year ago, and which I have neither read nor returned. But come to think of it, maybe I'm doing him a service.

Moff

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

Gynoklastes — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:37:34 EST

I, for one, am happy you have moved on to days of sitting around in a too-warm office and pretending that writing about total bullshit constitues some kind of important work, as long as you manage some references to annoying hipsters and quasi-intellectuals and use the wrod "douchebag" a lot.

Gynoklastes

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ronbo — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:00:42 EST

Actually, if you strain the interview through a pretension filter Hamrah doesn't sound completely stupid. He's right to call Payless on "unmaking" its brand: They're trying to go from "Pay Less" to what sounds like "Payliss." It sounds like "painless."

But some of the interview is priceless, not painless: There's a tiny picture of [Thomas Lipton] in the corner of the box. He's all white, not like a white colonialist, but white like a ghost. . . . I guess they don't want their tea to be associated with imperialism. Because that would be bad for sales.

I'd to enter this in the T-shirt contest: Not white like a colonialist, white like a ghost

ronbo

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zkemeny — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:54:54 EST

It's true. I came home the other day to find my girlfriend sitting on the floor with a pile of high heels, tearing the backs open with her teeth, trying to get to the edible cork centers so we'd have something to eat for that night. Then we picked fleas from each others' hair.

zkemeny

n+1 Makes Us Nostalgic For College, Caring About Stuff

blueribbon — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:38:04 EST

oh, différance -- those really were the days.

blueribbon