Archive for May 2009
The Wal-Mart Experience
I’m not going to say my former south Bakersfield neighborhood, once a middle class haven, turned foul because it bordered a Wal-Mart store. In fairness to the elephantine retailer, the area swirled into a sewer because absentee landlords sucked the Section 8 tit and, in exchange for government housing subsidies, stuffed criminals and other loud…
Read MoreAn Indignant Pig
Seldom have I complained about my brethren being slaughtered, fried, roasted, and barbecued. Never did I protest when my owners hired a veterinarian – a butcher with a degree – to whack off my testicles and saw my tusks. Rarely have I whined about forever being banished to a dreary Calabasas canyon while, in the…
Read MoreTokyo Life and Architecture
Men with technical minds made in Japan, England, and America were talking about my city, and me, at the A/cute Tokyo symposium, and I wanted to stand and shout shut up. You architects aren’t so bright. You’re human computers hired to build the problems you condemn. I already knew life in my city of thirty…
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