tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post5843398214611072325..comments2021-02-28T19:53:28.054-08:00Comments on creative laundry: Deconstructing SuburbiaEllenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06424592942558764840noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post-81783572811366317322010-05-05T15:31:50.019-07:002010-05-05T15:31:50.019-07:00Totally late posting, but check out Earthships, co...Totally late posting, but check out Earthships, completely made of a junk but sweet as hell.RainWillFallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00963686069660178101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post-47320025076995105582008-06-19T13:58:00.000-07:002008-06-19T13:58:00.000-07:00Mel: I heard pesticides and herbicides for home us...Mel: I heard pesticides and herbicides for home use were banned in Ontario recently. Hopefully that will get through to people. Plus, if we have complete social collapse, at least we can eat the dandelions that grow on our chemical free yards!<BR/><BR/>Donn: According to a recent Wall Street Journal article (too lazy to find the link) the exodus is well underway. I can also tell it's happening by all the For Sale signs decorating my neighbourhood with no takers. (I can almost see the tumbleweed blowing through my town.)<BR/><BR/>No doubt, suburbia will be a strange, short-lived idea in the history books. Time to bring back the town square concept of community and living ('cept without the gallows and icky medieval stuff)Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06424592942558764840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post-60427915473841815692008-06-19T08:46:00.000-07:002008-06-19T08:46:00.000-07:00The collapse of Snoburbia has been on the horizon ...The collapse of Snoburbia has been on the horizon for decades. Oil prices are going to continue going up for the rest of our lives..which has a silver lining...<BR/>we will be forced to CONSERVE.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately house prices are going to retract..it will become more desirable to live closer to work (prolly near downtown) and instead of commuting for 2 hours a day you will be able to sleep in, have breakfast with your kids, read the paper while you take a short busride and your blood pressure will drop 30 points.<BR/><BR/>Why we thought that running away from the city and building all of those CAR-houses was a solution is beyond me? One of our newest developments is bragging about a revolutionary design that customers are 'eating up'..<BR/>the garage..<BR/>wait for it..<BR/>is in the back!<BR/><BR/>plus ça change, <BR/>plus c'est la même chose eh?Romeo Morningwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826410608415260786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post-50416580253664120452008-06-19T05:05:00.000-07:002008-06-19T05:05:00.000-07:00Ellen, that's kind of creepy....the outbursts I me...Ellen, that's kind of creepy....the outbursts I mean. You just never know who's living in your neighbourhood. My neighbour from across the road sprays or should I say poisons his lawn at least twice a year and he has two little boys 3 and 5 who are out there playing all the time. Drives me crazy......Melodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05156332528889687870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post-5854789930329800932008-06-18T22:41:00.000-07:002008-06-18T22:41:00.000-07:00andrea: ah, that's interesting, I didn't know it s...andrea: ah, that's interesting, I didn't know it sounded like a disclaimer, I thought it was just me liking to over-explain everything as usual.<BR/><BR/>As for the 'guy', I didn't mention the scary outbursts that happen like clockwork twice a day and other irregular behaviours. (Which reminds me, if for some reason I disappear in the near future, direct the police to this post)Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06424592942558764840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4291649238761960949.post-53456401521119991692008-06-18T14:08:00.000-07:002008-06-18T14:08:00.000-07:00No, more likely he is a barometer of what we'll be...No, more likely he is a barometer of what we'll be forced to do when oil prices strip us of all our life savings. Meanwhile, he's probably just a garden-variety (get it? ha!) cheapskate and we need to figure out how to get by with less and be more resourceful. (And I love that you feel compelled to add the disclaimer. Let your politically incorrect flag fly! If people need an explanantion because they need to attack to feel all holy about themselves, well... let them stew.)<BR/><BR/>Now I'll watch the video. (At this stage of my life it I don't respond as soon as the response enters my head it disappears completely.)andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16364011769128646998noreply@blogger.com