While I was out running errands over the weekend, at one point I found myself driving ahead of an Escalade. I ask you, in all seriousness: what kind of pinhead drives such an obnoxious car? It rivals the Hummer in stupidity, which is akin to rivaling the state of Utah in Mormon population. Both vehicles are just absolutely, irredeemably butt-ugly, and both are, to use Science Girl’s astute observation, as big as a studio apartment. They can’t be much fun to drive, at that size, and they must be an absolute bitch to park. And at those prices, you wouldn’t dare take them off-road (as if more than 5% of SUVs in America have ever even parked on the shoulder of the road, much less actually driven off of it). What possible reason could there be for such a grotesque means of transportation, aside from the driver’s desperate plea for attention? Compensation for tiny genitalia? How else can you explain it?
Speaking of hideous design, our new library is set to open May 23. Perhaps you saw the article in yesterday’s New York Times? Tell me, please: how come all our new buildings are bent? Do you have to pay extra for something that doesn’t look like it needs a good nap? Or is Seattle becoming the dumping ground for expensive yet crappy architecture? Our skyline is rapidly becoming an eyesore.
We’ve been had. Again. Koolhaas and Gehry must be laughing themselves sick. I picture them sitting in the bar of the Architect’s Club, giggling hysterically into their gin & tonics and periodically high-fiving each other. Mark my word. Our children will be shaking their heads at this stuff the way we shake our heads at all those concrete boxes that everyone thought were so cutting-edge back in the 60’s and 70’s.
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