"Maispacey"

The tendency for anything potentially great (or just good) to be ruined as it is smothered under the shellack of someone's insistent and utterly dopey personal glaze. Bad taste by way of an unchecked over-assertion. For example, I'm sitting in what is, at its core, a very beautiful garden in the back of a schmancy West Hollywood establishment. Of course, just a nice shady grassy space would be too little, not enough cloying thematic treacle you know. So, there has to be an abundance of cute bamboo furnishings, a massive zen pond, koto music piped in, and a front room filled with enough Asian-flavored New Age crap to make your chi sink into your chai.