Cardigan Industries: Unanticipated Phrases

May 21

UNANTICIPATED PHRASES

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ageing hepcat shtick

Ira Glassish manipulation

smug fuck

cheerfully nonconvergent

unironic moustache

Identikit retro sheen

neocon plainchant

Leah McLaren’s bush

gerund-noun abuse

creepy Babbitt manqué hacks flogging online ‘presence’ to the feckless executive





Checklist • • The Ondaatje Memos • • Martin Amis • • • The Pitch • • Reeders II • • Meet the Reeders • •	The New Pharmacy• • What You’re Made Of • • Things That Happened • • The Drive Home • • How Was Your Flu? • • At the Dawn of the XFL • Twenty Degrees • • A New Vernacular • • How to Cook Soup • • Warning • • • Index • • • Gum • Jokette • • Cardigan Personal Style • Sentence • • •	White House Searches • • Petition • Language Barrier • • Reductionism • • Generation Wha? • • • Blood and Gore-Tex™ • • Rex Murphy • • Infrequent Searches • • Nostradumbass • • O Leah • • Stop the Inanity • • • Conrad Black III • • Conrad Black II • • Conrad Black I • • Russell Smith • •

City of Glass • • One Market Under God • Julian Barnes • • McSweeney’s V • • A Massive Swelling • • Marketing Culture • Book Design in Canada •

• Funny • Serious • Not bad, actually • Too clever x .5