Erik Moe Art & Design

WORD: Downtown. You may have noticed the inexplicable appearance of the word downtown on this website in recent weeks. It might be best to explain its use to the uninitiated. Downtown has recently become the synonym of choice for cool as hell. Please use it regularly. Its current revival is owed to a group of art students at Tyler (as is so often the case with contemporary trends). The earliest citation in this incarnation seems to have been an effort at distinguishing Downtown Debby from other Debbys (presumably those who do not reside in or near Center City, Philadelphia). This pattern was then extended to include yours truly. How downtown was then extended to mean cool as hell follows logically: Downtown Debby is cool as hell (Downtown Erik is too modest to consider whether his own downtown status was the cause of this shift in meaning). Lest there be any confusion, this has nothing to do with Julie Brown , who is clearly not downtown at all.