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| I took these pictures today at Irvine Valley College. This, of course, is our tattered American flag, flying above the California bear on a pole next to the Administration Building. (Click on the graphics to enlarge them.) |
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| A closeup. Have you read Clark Nova's piece about our beleagured flag? Focusing on the flag's miserable condition, Clark argues that the college is in violation of U.S. flag code. Apparently, we need to scare up some vets or Boy Scouts to burn the poor thing and put it out of its misery. |
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| Steevo contacted me today, insisting that I view a "big crack" on the corner of the A300 Building. That's the building that, ten or so years ago, was (as we say around here) "turned inside out" by Dean Howard "Hilton" Gensler. Maybe the strain of that dystopian transformation has belatedly caused these unsightly spasms of decrepitude. Gosh. |
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I closeup. It's all very Genslerian, I feel: the fakitude of the "brick and mortar" revealed, showing the shitty plywood within. Elsewhere on campus, they've replaced the fake brick with "fake stucco." Or so says the Reb.
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Mostly, though, it was a pleasant day at the college. (Great weather!) The place generally looks good. I'm even getting to like all those weird-assed sculptures that punctuate the lawns, like that spacey red gizmo at right, which, unless I am very much mistaken, is entitled, "Irvine's warmth." (Click on graphic.)
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7 comments:
It was a beautiful day on the campus.
The flag has been in terrible shape for a long time. Someone would know if they ever took it down but they don't. I used to take the flag down everyday at another job. Put it up too. Folded it. All that jazz.
The A-300 building will never recover. It needs to be burnt - like the old flag.
Yeah, I used to do flag ceremonies myself, as a Boy Scout, 40 years ago. Still remember how to fold a flag. I bet we could fly a diaper up there and the people who run this college would never notice.
If you look closely at the crack in A-300 you can see an image of Jesus.
I am sympathetic to the fact that a college is made of many different parts and the challenge or organizing and manintaining those various parts can be a challenge BUT I must say some parts should be easy:
-allocating an office space for instructors to meet with their stduents (part time instructors are the majority of instructors on campus);
-removing fawning images of a disgraced and convicted public official from the college website BEFORE he enters federal prison;
-maintaining the American flag so it isn't flying in visible shreds on the cmapus flagpole
Am I forgetting anything?
You forgot the inappropriate and disturbing materials posted by a tenured faculty member which touted his fabricated accomplishments among other things.
wow - it looks like you guys need a NEW BUILDING!
There's a new flag flying from the flag pole. Just thought you guys would like to know.
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