Big Wheel

Not the easiest way to get around town, but definitely one of the most EXTREME. And if that's your scene, then well, you're straight dope pimpin', man. To the max.

Just another dog in the wall

Real pic. Fido here done got his head stuck in a hole in the wall, and needed the fire department to rescue him. Which they did, and he's fine, happy story, ladaladalada!


The Lesson (there's always a lesson): Don't enter something in which you cannot get out of easily. In fact, always have an exit plan in mind when entering.

Made in China

Whenever I go into one of those mall based limbos like TGIF's or Outback (which is exceedingly rare) and note the various wacky olde tymey stuff they have all over their walls, all of which is cheap, replica crap, no doubt made in China... well. It just makes me go hmm - even better than the real thing. What isn't some sort of metafiction these days?

One of the other magical acts the Repuglicans have performed since St. Ronnie's Revolution is convincing people that you are FOR fiscal restraint and balanced budgets, while you are actually going massively into debt. It's quite a trick. Bush ran up the debt to unheard of levels, much of which went directly to China. I could go on and on about all the ramifications of this (one small: Towering, gleaming cities springing up all across China in the last twenty years), but suffice it to say, which position would you rather be in: Debtor or Creditor?

Given the massive debt currently held by the USA, and future prospects of nothing but more of the same, an outside observer might conclude we, as a country, are pretty well fucked.

Hey, as long as China maintains a robust human space program - which seems likely - then, what the heck: Go China!

I'm already acclimated to the diet.

Future in the High Tower

Now this is a Tower! 

If we survive, it seems likely that, with ever greater populations, we're going to go ever more vertical in our living spaces, culminating in ideas like this: Tower Cities. I've seen several versions of this concept, and they're all spectacular. Highly fictionalized and no where near real, but still, incredible. It makes tons of sense to concentrate urban environments vertically, rather than horizontally, which we do now, of course. Just not to this degree. As with most cool things these days, it will be the Japanese or Chinese who try it first. Good luck!

2 Big 2 Fail

See what I did there? Witty, huh?