Ode to Los Angeles Part II: Farewell Architecture

     Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
    -Jack Keroac, On the Road

    

    Don't think I won't miss you Los Angeles...

    When your architecture can look like this:

    So for now....

    Goodbye Pierre and your Case Study Homes

    Goodbye Louis and your Salk Institute

    Goodbye Richard and your hard to get into Health House

    Goodbye Frank and your Californian experiments

    Goodbye Greene and Greene Brothers

    So long Coop Himmelb(l)au with your un-occupiable symbolism

 

    and crazy classrooms

    Goodbye Bradbury Building

    And Buck House doorknobs

    So long Bullocks Wilshire Building and your awesome light inlays

    And farewell to you, Perloff Hall

    I'll see you in Berlin, Filosofers!

    

The Beat Poetry in Your Bookmarks

If you are as disorganized as I am with your web browsing, your bookmarks probably mean nothing to you. You most likely can never retrace your virtual steps and find what you're looking for.

I finally decided to take control of my bookmarks and join Delicious, Yahoo's smart, and surprisingly beatnik, way of organizing all of the webpages you would otherwise lose forever. When you save a page you get to associate it with a group of "tags" that will help you remember how to find it again. This seems like a good idea. These tags are then compiled into a greater word cloud so you can search by theme or popularity.



This is my word cloud.

But my word cloud doesn't make me want to track down old sites. When I look at my tag list all I see are really jazzy beat poems.


    Crazy creatures crochet cube culture? Well how delightful!



So straight out of my own personal word cloud, I present to you the best of my beatnik bookmark poetry:

free  french  furryalphabet

bunker bunny buried cake

organic painting panda

facet fascist fashion

garden  giantanimals  glow  goldleaf

pinup  pixel  powersocks  prefab puppies pyramid

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