Remember those golden years of the late 1980s where EVERYTHING was colored in teal and mauve? Well get your big shoulder pads, hair mousse and leg warmers out of the attic kids, because Pantone, the company that sets color standards for print and design, has declared that turquoise is the Color of the Year for 2010. The press release explains that turquoise “evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.” If you’re over 35, though, it probably evokes thoughts of girls with big hair, your mother’s “Country Kitchen” decor (which she still has all over the house 25 years later), and cheap “Native American” jewelry.
Oh, and just in case you weren’t paying attention all this time, 2009’s Color of the Year has been “Mimosa”, which was supposed to represent “hope and reassurance” in a time of “economic uncertainty and political change”. Given how well that all turned out, it’s no wonder we’re headed back to the ’80s.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
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Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
What a sad state of affairs it is when I am very well acquainted with the colors of the year 1954 but I didn’t know about 2009.
Oh, Suzette, you disappoint me mightily.
Oh lord. When we moved into ‘the house’ in Chelmsford when I was 6 oh say around 1971 the ENTIRE kitchen was turquoise. In fact the fridge was hung on the wall like cabinets and the oven matched and the hot water heater was this enormous ‘thing’ with a turquoise cover in the corner of the room that all the cats used to sleep on. (http://countingsheep.typepad.com/photos/nostalgia/panther_chelmsford.html) Our house was a slab with all in-floor heating. Then Mom one day got her hands on wallpaper and did this terrifying thing. http://countingsheep.typepad.com/photos/nostalgia/clarissakitchen.html Somewhere I thin I have a picture of it in turquoise hell before my parents made it psychedelic. .
Oh turquiose how I loathe you!
Turquoise, for me, is Windoze. *shudder*