Saturday, June 16, 2007

Something way cool this way comes + Let's maximize gayness

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SOMETHING way cool seems to be happening with Irvine’s “Great Park.”

According to an article in Thursday’s OC Register, two subprojects have been provisionally approved, and they're humdingers:
…The Great Park Board unanimously decided Thursday to make a nearly 3-mile-long wildlife corridor and Agua Chinon, a stream currently covered by runways at the former El Toro Marine base, the next major elements of the Great Park....

"We're creating something here that in future years will be looked at with awe," said Michael Pinto, vice chairman of the Great Park Board and founder and president of the Laguna Canyon Foundation.

The wildlife corridor will provide a vital link for animals between the Cleveland National Forest and the Coastal Hills Preserve, Pinto said....

...Ken Smith's design team will now get to work on construction-level drawings for the Agua Chinon project, which involves uncovering one of the natural streams that is now diverted under the El Toro base in clay pipes, concrete culverts and tunnels….

…Even though Agua Chinon must become a flood control channel, designers want it to look like a natural stream. Plans call for trails and bridges along the stream and possibly kiosks educating park visitors about the stream's restoration.

…The initial project will connect the corridor to the Cleveland National Forest, but not the southern coastal open space…Great Park Engineer Pat Fuscoe said the corridor will still function without the southern portion. He said animals will be able to travel under train tracks to find a small wetlands area.

…Corridor construction will begin this summer and is expected to take two years…Nine people came to Thursday's meeting to praise the corridor plans–some calling it an "act of courage."…But some environmentalists prodded the board to continue supporting the corridor by both completing its southern end and by adding a more diverse and rich array of plants and trees.
—I know, I know. It would be much better if they stopped building homes—home construction is an important part of the Great Park's grand plan—and encouraging people to move out here. Yep.

There are too many people, I say. People are fucking everything up.

Let's get small. Let's punctuate the Earth, not overwhelm it.

I'm doing my part. These days, I'm advocating homosexuality. I don't happen to play for that team, but I do see the advantages, growthwise. If we maximize gayness, we will help address the "humanity as a cancer" problem, and we'll do it in a very, well, humane way.

You know, maximizing gayness is just letting left-handed kids be left-handed. It's nice. Plus it's good to the future.

It's a win-win.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chunk, you're zany.

I like zany.

Anonymous said...

"The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night." -- Woody Allen

Anonymous said...

You're brilliant!

Anonymous said...

Where's the Bible guy with a quote from Leviticus? Not out eating a shrimp burrito, I hope.

--100 miles down the road

Anonymous said...

In your backyard, 5:03

Anonymous said...

Hey Bible guy: Isn't there something in your good book forbidding trespassing? Get outta my yard!

Anonymous said...

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. ~ Matthew 5:43-48

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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