Gehry Inside Out -

The homeless enter the iron barred gates in the morning give the guard turrets a suspicious look and then enter past the sign: no bedding except for small children's, bulky suitcases are subject to random searches.

Henri Lefebvre's doctrine that space is a monologue of hegemony forces the powerless to embrace control like they are regulated by "Stockholm Syndrome". Disappearing all day into the maze that diminishes them but "empowers" them with free internet - learned obeisance.

An architecture that alienates.

The Koch brothers (pronounced Coke like the corporation) are stepping in to California to rewrite our groundbreaking global warming law AB 23 (I will not mention the fact that they are also bankrolling Senator hopeful Carli Fiorina) by injecting millions of dollars of Texas oil money. Their initiative AB 32 would suspend the global warming law putting it into legislative limbo.

Their argument it appears is that with high unemployment it is in our economic best interest to pollute the planet for the time being.

Koch is one of the largest polluters in the U.S.

Guerilla Grenade Gardeners

Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud have created seed bombs that they deliver to locals in gum ball vending machines so that growcals can throw them in opportune cracks and "take back the planet".

Let's get this straight creating miniature green spaces counts as a radical act? Or does it simply entitle one to feel good about oneself for buying a seed grenade which is more of a consumerist act rather than a piratical act.

guerrilla spirit for sale get your guerilla spirit!

And I love the sublime thought that by buying my seed bomb > you are creating the change you want to see > but in reality you are wasting your time > which prevents you from taking action on a larger more efficient level considering the size of "global warming" > at the same time you are making us rich one seed bomb at a time!

George Orwell: (attributed) We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Colbert: (before the senate committee) We sleep safe at night because rough men stand ready in the night to pick vegetables for our health.

LA library playing ogres and optimists

All librarians should be called optimists because they are working in an unfunctional system that is underfunded. Where as the library IT dept. shall be known as ogres.

Witness the following conversation:

Could you get the IT Dept to call me after they fix the New England Ancestry database?

Um... they don't talk to anybody they haven't been trained to talk to the public.

Oh so they are ogres.

What do you mean?

They fix stuff but can't talk to people.

So how do I get the IT Dept. to call me after they fix the database?

You email them.

Do they respond to email?

Of course!

You are an optimist.