Archive for August, 2003

The sad case of Dr. Day

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003

A MetaFilter article today innocently linked to the web site of a Scientology front organization that exists, essentially, to question the use of prescription drugs, particularly for mental illness.
Looking through the site, I found the page for their board of directors and there was Dr. Lorraine Day. Oh dear, I thought. What now?
I first encountered [...]

Golden Brown

Saturday, August 23rd, 2003

I grew up in the 1970s, which was the Decade of Brown.
The general brownness of those years expressed itself in a myriad of ways. Pretty much everything “designed” was some shade of tan, mahogany, or chocolate. Cars, the interiors of homes, clothing, electronics, all of it. Fake wood, for example, was everywhere, and brown plaids [...]