A mall within a mall

...is one of the many disturbing, too-believable elements of the world offered up in The Warhol Gang by Peter Darbyshire, a well-written, fast-paced and relentless novel that came uncomfortably close to some of my deepest fears, but it was the neuro-marketing that left me wide-eyed at 3 a.m. for two nights running. Darbyshire talks about his novel and neuro-marketing in this interview at Maisonneuve. I think everyone knows on some level that this is happening, but Darbyshire gives us a super-macro view of what is and what might be. The book rattled me. I read You Are Not a Gadget earlier this year, a nonfiction eye-opener which looks at technology and marketing, so I was already stewing on this. The Warhol Gang takes things further. Much further. And then to top things off, the day after I finished The Warhol Gang the Globe ran this story on Ikea and its maze. A coincidence? Now I can't help but wonder.

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I wonder when the rain will stop. It's been raining forever. This morning I checked my gardens between showers and found some blooms.


Alas, I found mosquitoes, too. Lots of them.

The Warhol Gang held against

...a northern sky. That was yesterday afternoon, after the book arrived.


The Warhol Gang by Peter Darbyshire, owner of CanCult, is at the top of my summer reading list largely because his first novel Please was a dandy.


I'm bound to have a ball.

Lots of good news at Grain

...as you can see on their website. And check out the final paragraph! I'm stoked.

The latest on the Disneyfication

...of the South Saskatchewan River, as planned by Saskatoon, has been posted at Pelican Watch.

May 13 - More news.

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I posted my latest watercolours on my other blog. I had a productive week. I think I'm gearing up for June.

Now to loosen up.

May is here and I painted

...my afternoon away. I posted today's watercolour on another blog. That's where I'll be posting my new work from now on.

I can't believe May is already here.