Saturday, July 31, 2004 Laura Ingalls Wilder didn't have to dodge a hail of bullets
...although I do remember once she had to dodge a hail of hailstones.
Last night an accomplice and I were out walking a certain celebrity terrier, when on the way home, just as we were turning off the big main street, somebody decided, "Hell, gotta shoot something!" so started firing out the window of their car on the block where we had been lingering a few minutes earlier. My accomplice reports that they seemed to be aiming for the Brown Center. Immediately, I realized that we had been dancing with death. The gang responsible was none other than the Preservationists, the toughest bunch of mugs this side of the JFX. Their "colors" are oversize tunics and earnest expressions. Usually, an outfit like the Preservationists shoot to kill, but last night's shooting was a message: this is an old building town, and any new jack modern architecture had better "step", otherwise it was "on."
My accomplice argues that it was the work of the Traditional Architecture Mafia, but I'm not so sure. This isn't their turf. For them to come into the BH would be to risk a full-out architecture gang war. There would be blood on the bootscrapers for sure, and no one wants that, because it is an eyesore and lowers property values. posted by Frenzy Lohan | 7/31/2004 01:58:00 PM
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