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You know, somehow, I suspect Thomasville Furniture’s Hemingway Collection Doesn’t include a gun rack.

It looks like Helmut Lang is getting out of the fashion biz. The article gives several reasons, such as a change away from minimalism, or perhaps the cutback on his jeans brand. They also cite the fact that he didn’t create an “it” handbag like you’d get from, say, Prada or Dolce and Gabbana. Of course, this leads to the real reason:

You can rap about Dolce and Gabbana, but “Helmut Lang” just doesn’t scan

The Japanese can sometimes be a little scary.

Part of it is the sheer compactness of the culture. In america it takes time for microfads to turn into full blown fads, or to be noticed. In places like japan, or in the club scenes in the UK, really crazy and sometimes brilliant trends can pop up and take root. Of course, Visual Kei such as Gothic Lolita or, god help us, ganguro, are hopefully just signs, much like rampant flag-waving, of a neurotically repressed culture

The thing I find most disturbing is that the flag waving shirt is being sold in Sweden. Really… are swedes that into line dancing? Yumpin’ Yimminy, Sven!

A friend and I were discussing This madness when I pointed out that advertising the amazing flavor properties of different salts is pure madness… Then a punchline fell from heaven, that only foodTV types will get…

 <nerdgod> they might as well advertise homeopathic salt
 <ct> fleur de sel is what you use when you cook at French Laundry
 <ct> which
 <ct> by the way
 <ct> has a "salt course"
 <ct> a small dish of diced hard boiled egg white
 <ct> and four small piles of different salts
 <ct> complete with description
 <nerdgod> If the French Laundry jumped off of a cliff....
 <ct> if Thomas Keller jumped off a cliff, people would pay $125
   prix fixe to stand in the spray of his entrails at the bottom

Seriously, people… What the fuck..

Okay, consumer-protection has gone too far. What’s next? Signs on all front doors that say “Leaving your home may get you shot, run over, give you cancer from being in the sun, put you at risk of job-induced stress. Go back inside now.”???

Perhaps we should just start putting everyone in bubbles once they’re born.