“ But, what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, “Yes, I’m from Texas,” deserves whatever happens to him.”
“ Sarah Palin is beautiful. Bachmann is okay. I don’t know I’ve never met her.”
Austin, TX
Living Room 2.0
Shelving
I built the shelf for my record player with a coworker between February and April. I am still deciding on if I want to stain it or not.Chairs
Eames Molded Plyood in red stain. I’ve wanted one of these ever since I saw a knock-off in black at Uncommon Objects right after I moved to Austin.Jens Chair. Who cares if it was designed for a hotel. Look at that beauty.
Architect proposes sinking I-35 through Austin - Austin Business Journal
This would have a fantastic cost, but would do wonders to transform the city of Austin. Our downtown core has four effective boundaries: Town Lake, Mopac, I-35, and the Capitol. Burying I-35 from the lake through 15th streets would remove one of these barriers and allow for the free flow of development into East Austin.
This would destroy East Austin as we know it, but allow for many improvements and increase the viability of high density development in those neighborhoods. Let me vote on the bonds now!
Alt Text: All music is just performances of 4’33” in studios where another band happened to be playing at the time.
“ Privacy is protected as both commodity and right; public forums are protected as neither. Like old-growth forests, they’re few and irreplaceable and should be held in trust by everyone.”
Imperial Bedroom, Jonathan Franzen
My commentary isn’t related to the thesis of the essay, but this is something I have been curious about. As we experience more of our lives through digital expression on corporate lands is there the ability for the creation of a digital public space?
Facebook owns rights to my expression on its medium. They can remove what I say. My speech is not free.
While government run public space sounds more intrusive it will afford all of the protections of the constitution. It must. A corporation, as private entity, is free from these restrictions.
I have no possible solution or direction of thought in this regard. If the answer were clear to me I’d probably have to run for office.
