Bruce McCall's faux nostalgia

And faux nostalgia works even in serious subjects like war.

Faux nostalgia, which I'm sort of not, say, famous for, but I work an awful lot in it.

Fact is, there's a general rule if you don't like it, it's fake if you do like it, it's faux.

Now, retrofits are often accused of being examples of faux downtowns and instant urbanism, and not without reason you don't get much more phony than an Astroturf town green.

Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened full of flying cars, polo playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, The Biggest Thing in All the World. At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux nostalgic art.

Historically, aborted moves and faux pas abound on both sides in the French NATO relationship, the latest being Jacques Chirac s failed attempt to patch up France s relations with NATO upon his arrival in power in 1995. Success is not guaranteed this time, either, but the chances are much higher now, because France, the United States, and the world have changed.

In becoming the poster girl for a re branded continuation of the Bush administration, Palin is showing herself to have much in common with glossy faux populists like Eva Peron or Denmark s anti immigrant leader Pia Kjærsgaard. What we should learn for next time and for every time to come is that great leaders and great dreams are being overlooked in the women who prepare our food, process our Internet orders, and wipe up the spills in our hospitals.