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The Fish Market is Dead, Long Live the Fish Market.
So the fish market is moving. Maybe. There has been some talk, but nothing specific has happened this week, only stray notices here and there, people dusting off oft-used paeans to the dwindling manufacturing base, finding the most colorful anecdote they can, and you can practically hear the syrupy violin music accompanied by the long […]
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Parade of Fools.
I don’t like parades. Are you surprised? It’s not the result of some deep-seated horror the result of a bad clown experience, but rather the glib artifice that is reduced to the most neutered spectacle possible. The aura of all sign and no signified that pervades the few I’ve attended in the past ten years […]
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Who Do You Love?
In hopes of finding new ways to be of use to those of you who find the time to read this, and because I can’t write every day about the stupidity that pervades the WTC planning, I’m casting about for some new ‘features’, particularly some that might, um, write themselves a little bit. One of […]
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It may well develop that there are 16 arces of sacred gound in China.
Ground Zero is spiraling every deeper into a Derridean nightmare, a farce that manages to interweave Seinfeld-esque concentric circles of absurd nothingness with every tautly argued theory of postmodern regression. Oh, wait, those are the same thing. Can we go home yet? No, we learned abruptly that morning four years ago, yet are still reminded […]
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Bread and circuses. And pro football.
Empires crumble. Sometimes in a big way, though we seem to lack the capacity to think so expansively. Our empires are now tiny things, inflated by the empty promise of television, small men writ large with the aid of buildings the clamber skyward sans distinguishing features, as if any pause would prompt the viewer to […]
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Fuck you heroes, Redux.
The LEVS is a gift that keeps on giving. Even as each block seems to fold in on itself as a parody of urban chic — if such a thing ever existed — you think, no, it’s not possible to find an even richer example of absurd and apparent evidence. Be it the throngs of […]
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Brad Cloepfil is going to start the demo with a sledge engraved with ‘Santa Maria’.
My formative years, and perhaps those responsbile for my bad attitude, were spent in the south. A roommate in the early years was a fella, though not southern, who took to the spirit of redneck chivalry rather adroitly. Eschewing architecture for preservation, mostly because he had a hankering — and talent — for woodworking, he […]
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Freedom that dares not speak its name.
Or something. Careful and considered writing at this point seems pretty useless in the face of “an uplifting story of decency triumphing over depravity“. All that really is left to be said is that the mealy-mouthed fools who penned Pataki’s statement had the good sense — if it can be called that — to not […]
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You should have gone before you left home.
The saga of public restrooms here in what we like to think of as the first world stumbled forward another halting step with the city finally — a term deployed with much skepticism — awarding a contract to subsidiary of a Spanish conglomerate that has managed to build seven toilets in Rio in three years. […]
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Vote or Walk.