Tag: Flaneur
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On the Prowl
# CommentIn recent weeks (something about tragic airline promotions), the notion of the cougar has been roaming the airwaves (probably more than our streets). Rather than Baudelaire’s notion of a flaneur (the more placid experience of the city through walking), a more aggressive and sexually-charged urban exploration is gaining currency in our city’s lexicon.
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On Fish, bridges, Boris, Jonathan, and pack-donkeys
# RANTINGMaximus may have been all fish-out-of-water proposing an inhabited viaduct over Wellington’s the Basin Reserve over at Eye of the Fish, but it seems that somebody is reading that blog over in our good old Mother Country… Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London no less…