June 25, 2012
— CAC After posting yesterday, I decided to overcome my usual resistance to visit an exhibit or piece on opening day, just to further spite those of you angry at a rock being called art. Full disclosure: part of my hyping this has been a reaction to the absurdity of this on paper. The sheer cost and energy put into creating this work went beyond any adjective I can summon without grinning, though as a conservative I find it refreshing how this came to be: artist Michael Heizer found a way to get his 40-year vision off paper and, with $10 million all privately raised, onto Miracle Mile.
I thought about what I would probably write, whilst making Mrs CAC her Starbucks Surprise (grain alcohol and ginger ale in a Starbucks cup for the long drive). I was probably going to focus on the positives of minimalism, on the hype, on a hundred things I didn't. Yesterday was perfect: high 70s, light breeze, and a waxing crescent moon suspended in the bright blue California sky. You couldn't ask for better weather while enjoying outdoor sculpture. Or when having an epiphany.
Passing Wilshire, the plaza came into full view, along with the crowd. Surprise, even at 5:30 there were still hundreds milling about the campus. If you decide to make the trip, it is free: just enter the park entrance on 6th street and walk towards the Big Fucking Rock. You really can't miss it. Even if the ranting street lunatics try to distract you on Fairfax. Once inside the plaza the gigantic rock is hard to miss:
I seriously could not wait. I had to see it, even if the crowd of people, bicycles and dogs gathered inside and around was a bit distracting. Fun note on the dogs- while people casually streamed into the sculpture and under SMOD Jr, dogs, whether big or small, would go batshit, barking at the giant stone and making a hilarious scene.
The moment where the huge mass begins to block out the sun, something interesting happens. The people staring up and walking under all stop, right at that point. Some even walk back a bit unnerved. There is something about having the normal (sunny day) obscured by the abnormal and challenging that triggers something odd in people. Call it a "this may be a stupid idea" reflex. The "maybe the panicked dog has a point" idea. I walked down the channel and under the stone snapping a good pile of images with the blackberry before I decided to just "experience" the work:
Re-approaching from the Western end, the first thing I noticed were the long shadows cast down from the deep channel and rock. It creates an effect photography can't really capture, it's purely psychological: the buttresses "supporting" the rock actually appear to shrink as you approach it. The mass itself seems to be just sitting there, and its odd edges give an illusion of movement. It appears, temporarily, to be hovering over your head. The supports themselves are obvious if you are look for them, but as I was taking in the giganto-fuck-normous boulder above me, searching around for a hint of the sky, they seemed trite and tiny.
Why?
Why was this done? What was he seeing in the desert in the 1960s when he thought this project up? Why here, in an urban landscape? Snarky answers aside, I was determined to figure it out. The boulder was moved over a hundred miles on a massive rig and dropped over a concrete channel. The rock was secured in place with bolts and buttresses but appears to be just resting there precariously. When the Big One finally hits, it will likely levitate a lot less.
As I'm staring at the rock above me, contemplating the why, I get distracted with the usual troubles in my mind. Debt. More debt with the wedding coming up. My father-in-law's fight with Alzheimers. Bigger problems start racing through my mind- the recession, the upcoming election, etc. The stress of the last few years has weighed on a lot of people. Getting annoyed I'm being mentally derailed while starting at granite, I began to move up the channel, out and away.
That's it. Man has always been in awe of nature and natural forces. We seem so small compared to the bigness of everything around us. As an amateur astronomer, staring out at the Whirlpool Galaxy really brings things down to size. We can be overwhelmed by the massiveness of things we encounter and experience, but we have this sensation because unlike the rest of creation we are aware of ourselves. We have thought, and as such can make our own choices independent of what the rest of our surroundings may intend.
The work is there to challenge you. The mass, dangling over you, a reminder of the countless aspects of our lives we seem to have little control over. The implication of being squished brings to mind the greatest one: death. Not a lot of choices right there in that gigantic hulking mass of indifferent nothing. But the channel is the real key to the work being successful. We move downwards to encounter the mass, to challenge it. Unlike the gigantic boulder, we can keep moving. We make the conscious choice to engage the things we may often find overwhelming.
We also have the choice to beat them back and emerge with a greater sense of ourselves. The rock harkens back to the millenia-long use of stone to symbolize the eternal. I thought the press releases mentioning this were pure quackery, but it is dead right. The rock symbolizes everything we encounter that may intimidate us but which we choose to approach and deal with anyway. The Man V Nature narrative is often the David V Goliath of conflict stories. Storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, swarms etc all spell out a battle that seem to imply poor odds for us. But since we have conscious thought, man can, if he chooses, have the upper hand against most things.
In man's conquest of his surroundings and in his personal battles, we have choices, especially when we break down what is challenging us. Their massiveness is often an illusion, the threat less grave when we actually face them. The 340 ton granite and gravity would love to squash you like a bug, but (for now), it can't. It just sits there. Less awe-inducing, and more pitiful, as visitors pose for cameras, a guy dressed like Jesus staggers around it (seriously, you had to be there), and crap art critics bloviate from under it.
Final verdict: definitely worth the trip.
Beer helps too.
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Posted by: J.R. Ewing at June 25, 2012 09:17 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Cicero at June 25, 2012 09:18 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: elizabethe at June 25, 2012 09:18 AM (T03Ll)
True that. A big one. And art, it is said. At least it was privately funded.
Posted by: eureka! at June 25, 2012 09:18 AM (xCpfo)
1) This is pretty cool, and must be a trip to go see in person. Looks like quite a cool experience.
2) To call this "art" seems like an awfully broad definition of the word "art". The word "art" has been expanded to be so inclusive of everything, that people have lost a real appreciation for what was traditionally known as "art". (In my opinion).
Posted by: dan-O at June 25, 2012 09:18 AM (sWycd)
Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2012 09:18 AM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at June 25, 2012 09:19 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2012 09:19 AM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 25, 2012 09:19 AM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Cicero at June 25, 2012 09:19 AM (QKKT0)
http://www.thefreedomrock.com/ (Official Site)
http://is.gd/02AfkA (location)
Posted by: Jay in Ames at June 25, 2012 09:19 AM (UEEex)
Posted by: Ben at June 25, 2012 09:19 AM (C2Y4l)
Posted by: Crow T. Robot at June 25, 2012 09:20 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 25, 2012 09:20 AM (qx7YW)
A Peyote cactus?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 25, 2012 01:21 PM (tf9Ne)
A big rock. On a platform. Duh.
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at June 25, 2012 09:21 AM (RD7QR)
The levitated mass should have been a giant pair of tittehs.
Posted by: steevy at June 25, 2012 01:19 PM (Xb3hu)
Something like Christina Hendricks, braless?
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 25, 2012 09:22 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: NC Ref at June 25, 2012 09:22 AM (/izg2)
I enjoyed your respective and appreciate you doing it despite the comments you know are coming!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 25, 2012 09:22 AM (3inkD)
"When the Big One finally hits, it will likely levitate a lot less."
^Earned a snort and a semi-spit-take. Well done.
Posted by: Jaws at June 25, 2012 09:23 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: Fake rock maker at Disney at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Caiwyn at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (ttktr)
Posted by: Malcolm Holm at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (136wp)
Posted by: The Rockies at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (C2Y4l)
>>Its a rock. You called it art, and you were absurd to even consider the possibility it is art.
You didn't read a fucking word that was written, did you?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (/kI1Q)
Meh. Everyone knows it's not *really* art unless someone "accidentally" dies during the installation.
Posted by: Christo at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (xGZ+b)
CAC,
Again, great feat of engineering, nice presenation, but wasn't the biggest achievement here that he raised $10 million to do it?
In the last SMOD Jr. Thread you lambasted people who said "I could do this myself" as not being able to. I'm curious did said Artist do it himself either? Or did he take his $10 Million and hire an engineering team, quarry workers and truck drivers to make his dream a reality? Which means his (as I said above) his major achievement was the raising of the money (and to a lesser extent seeing a rock in the desert and deciding on the idea.)
That being said, it's private money and if donors want to spend cash on this, I can't really complain all that much. I hate when people trot out the "starving children" line so I certainly won't resort to that.
Furthermore, I see video games as art (When others don't) so I'm certainly not going to lambast someone's ability to put money towards this, or my choice of expression may be next on the chopping block.
My Humble opinion: Curiousity, interesting, art-ish maybe, but not high art (it's like The Desden Files compared to The Lord of Rings, both are neat in their own way, but only one is "high literature.")
Posted by: tsrblke at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (22rSN)
You know what's really cool?
Redwoods.
They are farkin huge. And old.
Never seen one. Some day, though.
I think you can actually drive your car through a redwood somewhere. Like a tree-tunnel. That's cool.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 25, 2012 09:24 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: rukiddingme? at June 25, 2012 09:25 AM (MbeEN)
But "pretty neat" doesn't make it art.
This is art:
http://is.gd/51sExf
http://is.gd/5R0qAj
http://is.gd/bi220b
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 25, 2012 09:25 AM (nEUpB)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at June 25, 2012 09:25 AM (136wp)
CAC, if you were smart, you would've got a bunch of pebbles, made your own little miniature versions of this, and then sold them outside.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 25, 2012 09:26 AM (9Q7Nu)
The definition is already so broad as to have no meaning. Art is what someone says is art. Just like beauty.
Our ancestors worshipped natural features like volcanoes, rivers, and trees. Was that art? Beats me. A better term is "cool", as in, wow, that's cool. That way you aren't a boring, obnoxious art snob, and you can still appreciate something that's different or just impressive. And how can someone dispute whether something is cool. It's totally subjective.
Posted by: pep at June 25, 2012 09:26 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:26 AM (9TTOe)
Nobody even cares about us anymore. The public is fickle, you'll see giant Levitatied Mass. You'll see.
Posted by: Moon Rocks at June 25, 2012 09:26 AM (BAS5M)
That's because dogs are fucking retards.
Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2012 09:26 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 25, 2012 09:27 AM (jucos)
Go for a hike along a stream or river bed and be awed at the 'levitating masses' all over the fucking place...
better yet, go to Mexican Hat.
Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2012 09:27 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: venus velvet at June 25, 2012 09:28 AM (g94P/)
Posted by: Ben at June 25, 2012 09:28 AM (C2Y4l)
This definition works perfectly for me. A big ass rock just sitting (sorry -- levitating) in a minimal geometric setting is pretty damn cool.
It's art to me.
Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2012 09:29 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Y-not at June 25, 2012 09:29 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:29 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 25, 2012 09:30 AM (XvHmy)
I thought about it, believe me. Let's see Savonarola make a bonfire out of that!
Posted by: Filippo Brunelleschi at June 25, 2012 09:31 AM (YXmuI)
Posted by: TooCon at June 25, 2012 09:31 AM (YcTIW)
Posted by: micmcn at June 25, 2012 09:32 AM (/3KtX)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 25, 2012 09:32 AM (Gye7Z)
Posted by: Big T Party at June 25, 2012 09:32 AM (EhUTA)
Well, I've seen worse uses for 10 million I guess. I dunno. It just seems to me that real art involves man taking stuff and altering it to either create beauty (or ugliness?) or communicate a specific meaning. I guess maybe the suspension system is art of a sort in order to create a desired visual effect.
Still, I'd be a lot more impressed if a more... complex... structure had been built, or if the rock had been made INTO something. Just taking a natural-ish thing and presenting it doesn't seem like that awesome an accomplishment to me. What talent did he employ here? How does he insure that whatever meaning, or perhaps emotion, he intended is communicated?
Like most things "modern" I rate this a "meh."
Posted by: Reactionary at June 25, 2012 09:33 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 25, 2012 09:33 AM (Dnbau)
If there is an illusion to it, and it sounds like there is, then it's art. The title of the piece makes me think it is an intentional illusion.
If it's just a rock, then it sucks. But if it was a project to make one feel like the rock is actually floating, and if it can actually do so, in a way that's evocative to some degree for everyone, it's art.
Michelangelo's Davit is just a hunk of stone too, but the effort that went into making it a beautiful representation of the human form is what evokes emotion. THis evokes emotion through craft as well. it's just not a pretty picture is all.
Posted by: imp at June 25, 2012 09:33 AM (UaxA0)
The greatest design in history? I think that one could make an argument that your example is closer to art than this boulder-over-culvert.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 25, 2012 09:34 AM (nEUpB)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 25, 2012 09:35 AM (kqGWM)
Posted by: Cicero at June 25, 2012 09:35 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:35 AM (9TTOe)
But if it was a project to make one feel like the rock is actually floating, and if it can actually do so, in a way that's evocative to some degree for everyone, it's art.
Lick this toad and it'll look like it's floating!
Posted by: garrett the artist at June 25, 2012 09:35 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 25, 2012 09:36 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Performance Artists at June 25, 2012 09:36 AM (YXmuI)
The buttresses ruin the effect IMO.
He should have designed it with a funnel effect or something similar to reduce the width of the trench below the rock. If the trench width was reduced about 8-10 feet above the floor, then he would have had a justification to not have the buttresses IMO. I am not an artist or a civil engineer, so YMMV.
Posted by: rd at June 25, 2012 09:37 AM (9sUlj)
Michelangelo. Pffft.
Posted by: Constantin Brancusi at June 25, 2012 09:37 AM (QKKT0)
There's no reason those things can't be art as well. The classic Coke bottle is art.
A classic car is art. Design and engineering.
Posted by: eleven at June 25, 2012 09:38 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 25, 2012 09:38 AM (u29Gj)
Or perhaps I only imagined it was there...
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at June 25, 2012 09:40 AM (f6Yc3)
Posted by: Anachronda at June 25, 2012 09:40 AM (IrbU4)
Posted by: The Ilumminati at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (136wp)
Okay, either I got into the Starbucks Special or a post disappeared.
But ace doesn't have a time machine or anything. Nope. No idea why we'd think otherwise.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Ma Bell at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (uVuwp)
I'll take a Mime Troupe over this, any day.
Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: CAC at June 25, 2012 09:41 AM (g6Zvi)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose Lite! 98% Anger Free! at June 25, 2012 09:42 AM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:42 AM (9TTOe)
Thanks CAC. Don't think I'll ever make it to Cali to see this, but I enjoyed your review and the thought you put into it.
Reminds me of a class I took in music school called "Music and the machine." As a classical musician, I was skeptical at that "turntablism" and compositions using a Moog synthesizer could be considered music, but my opinions were changed. It's all in your point of view and how you view music/art.
Hope that didn't sound too douche-y.
Posted by: shinypie at June 25, 2012 09:42 AM (Kz85k)
But ace doesn't have a time machine or anything. Nope. No idea why we'd think otherwise.<<<
Selfish DICK.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 25, 2012 09:42 AM (u29Gj)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 25, 2012 09:42 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 25, 2012 09:42 AM (C8mVl)
You mean....the Men In Black are on this blog too?
Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 25, 2012 09:43 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Levitated Mass at June 25, 2012 09:43 AM (54vf8)
The excrement has now become actualized.
Posted by: Brother Cavil presents at June 25, 2012 09:44 AM (GBXon)
Especially if there is hot chick mimes. Nothing like a hot chick that doesn't talk.
Who wants a chick with an invisible box?
Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2012 09:44 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 09:45 AM (MMC8r)
There was no freakout post... You saw nothing...
Look into this little flashy thingy here.
Posted by: J at June 25, 2012 01:42 PM (YXmuI)
The swamp gas reflected the light from Venus off of the weather balloon, causing the optical illusion.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 25, 2012 09:45 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Randy Rager at June 25, 2012 09:45 AM (GeYww)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 25, 2012 01:36 PM (Dnbau)
More like ten months.
Posted by: baldilocks at June 25, 2012 09:45 AM (6kWFm)
The rock inspires me in many ways, one is to go to the internet for sage quotes from mighty thinkers:
"A fool and his money are soon parted" - Old english idiom.
"There's a sucker born every minute.” ¯ P.T. Barnum
“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
¯ P.T. Barnum
Posted by: Max Entropy at June 25, 2012 09:45 AM (0Ltx4)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 25, 2012 09:46 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: nickless at June 25, 2012 01:45 PM (MMC8r)
What did you want, a' Long Distance Dedication' of a Hall and Oates song?
Posted by: casey kasem at June 25, 2012 09:46 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at June 25, 2012 09:46 AM (136wp)
Posted by: The Rock at June 25, 2012 09:47 AM (54vf8)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 25, 2012 09:47 AM (Gye7Z)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 25, 2012 09:47 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:47 AM (9TTOe)
IIRC, admission is free for those living in the path it took.CAC?
Posted by: baldilocks at June 25, 2012 09:48 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: mpfs at June 25, 2012 09:48 AM (iYbLN)
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~maher/air/113-20v.jpg
Posted by: huerfano at June 25, 2012 09:48 AM (bAGA/)
Posted by: RoyalOil at June 25, 2012 09:48 AM (kSaUf)
: Uh-oh. Syrians seem to have fired on a Turkish S+R plane looking for the other one that got shot down. Turks invoking Articles 4 and 5.
Yaaaaaaaay. I'm so happy I'm living in interesting times! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go curl up under my desk in a fetal position. Oh. Wait. There are yet more FUCKING JUMPING SPIDERS down there.
Can't sleep. Jumping spiders will eat me. Even the ones with their mouths glued shut and seriously seriously what exactly do you have to do to your advisor to be assigned that part of the research project. "Oh, hey, Juan Carlos, I just want you to know that my completely co-equal female partner and I have a open, adult relationship and it's just fine that I found you dorking her in the squeakhole in our bed the other day. Now here. Go glue those spiders mouths shut."
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at June 25, 2012 09:48 AM (VtjlW)
CAC - the rock being extracted, hauled, manipulated and anchored on two provocatively small side decks is NOT a testament as to man's insignificance as you conclude.
How could it be? The rock was completely manipulated from nature by man and purposefully perched in a way as to thumb our noses at nature by securing it on what we reflexively view as inadequate.
In short... this rock was had by man and your musings on a greater purpose of it in so much as aligning man's insignificance vis a vis nature vis a vis this rock... is to say the least ironic.
Posted by: Journolist at June 25, 2012 09:50 AM (QWOh7)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:50 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 25, 2012 09:51 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:51 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 25, 2012 09:52 AM (ccXZP)
Sometimes these projects that sound stupid and pointless, are actually cool when you see them in person. Cristo's "Gates" in Central Park is one example: just some lengths of fabric, stretched like banners across the walkways in the park, but they got you to see the place in an entirely different way.
The Irish have a term for this sort of thing: a "folly". You see them in Ireland: a tower, say, or some pseudo-Gothic ruins, that somebody built just because he damned well felt like it. The rock looks like it's a magnificent folly - and kudos to the artist for making it happen.
Posted by: Brown Line at June 25, 2012 09:52 AM (6hIqz)
It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
Or maybe it's something I ate.
Posted by: mpfs at June 25, 2012 09:52 AM (iYbLN)
You call this a review CAC? There's nowhere near 150,000 words.
Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2012 09:52 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: Thunderb at June 25, 2012 09:52 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: COMINTERN at June 25, 2012 09:53 AM (tqwMN)
But a nice review.
Posted by: Dang at June 25, 2012 09:53 AM (Ky1+e)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, team dagny at June 25, 2012 09:53 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: model_1066 at June 25, 2012 09:54 AM (YbQJm)
Posted by: mpfs at June 25, 2012 09:54 AM (iYbLN)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at June 25, 2012 09:54 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 09:55 AM (9TTOe)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at June 25, 2012 09:55 AM (136wp)
Issa setting contempt vote for WED. They better have the votes
Fuck the votes...they better have his hot aide in a leg chair!
Posted by: garrett at June 25, 2012 09:55 AM (Rbrer)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 25, 2012 09:55 AM (BAS5M)
The sheer cromulence of the rock is impressive and thought-provoking.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 25, 2012 09:57 AM (u29Gj)
Posted by: Cricket at June 25, 2012 09:57 AM (DrC22)
then they built LACMA, and then another building, then some more parking, etc, etc, until now, with the BFR installation, there's pretty much SFA left in the way of green space.
this is NOT an improvement: tear it all down and bring back nature.
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 25, 2012 09:58 AM (8MasJ)
Posted by: grognard, team dagny at June 25, 2012 09:58 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: Mr T Honey Badger, drinker of Mead, eater of pistachios at June 25, 2012 10:00 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Team Dagny at June 25, 2012 01:50 PM (9TTOe)
But it will tip over if you station too many Marines on it.
Posted by: somebody else, not me at June 25, 2012 10:00 AM (nZvGM)
Posted by: nip at June 25, 2012 10:00 AM (ivAM4)
Posted by: Mr T Honey Badger, drinker of Mead, eater of pistachios at June 25, 2012 10:02 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at June 25, 2012 10:02 AM (X87hd)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at June 25, 2012 10:03 AM (JxMoP)
Posted by: Mr T Honey Badger, drinker of Mead, eater of pistachios at June 25, 2012 10:04 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 25, 2012 10:04 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Mr T Honey Badger, drinker of Mead, eater of pistachios at June 25, 2012 10:06 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: Le Critic du Arte at June 25, 2012 10:06 AM (54vf8)
I've heard that about *ahem* you EoJ.
Posted by: mpfs at June 25, 2012 10:06 AM (iYbLN)
Posted by: anon at June 25, 2012 10:07 AM (j/wD+)
All our dignity then, consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor then, to think well; this is the principle of morality. -- Blaise Pascal Pensees 347
Posted by: Pascal at June 25, 2012 10:09 AM (OULR2)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at June 25, 2012 10:11 AM (X87hd)
CAC - reread your piece.
I like it.
You are very wise.
Very crafty your prose.
I read it too fast the first time.
Posted by: Journolist at June 25, 2012 10:11 AM (QWOh7)
Posted by: mikey at June 25, 2012 10:24 AM (GSeVd)
Posted by: Tonic Dog at June 25, 2012 10:25 AM (X/+QT)
Posted by: model_1066 at June 25, 2012 01:54 PM (YbQJm)
meant to add...from space. SMODish
Posted by: model_1066 at June 25, 2012 10:36 AM (YbQJm)
Posted by: Buffalobob at June 25, 2012 10:45 AM (676kt)
I spent a portion hiking through the waterfall and then under the Tonto Natural Bridge. Makes this thing look like a pitiful, old, sickly dancing bear on a leash next to an honest to God wild Alaskan Grizzly. After that, we drove up along the Mongollon Rim, had another hike and some lunch while looking out...I don't know...50, 100 miles? Had a nice sandwich up on a real rock. A rock where one little slip would mean death, as the little metal memorial badge affixed near the cliff edge made one well aware.
L.A..........
Posted by: MostlyRight at June 25, 2012 10:49 AM (ZG8Ti)
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Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at June 25, 2012 12:31 PM (izA2D)
It's a fucking rock. Sitting on two concrete walls. It's a fucking rock.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and all that at June 25, 2012 12:36 PM (CP+yl)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at June 25, 2012 12:50 PM (ND7TC)
Posted by: Jerome at June 25, 2012 01:42 PM (eQa5p)
Posted by: rabidfox at June 25, 2012 02:34 PM (V2HyS)
Yeah, I read it all. Its a rock. Its not art. It doesn't become art because someone waxes all sophomore in college about it.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 25, 2012 04:43 PM (r4wIV)
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Posted by: Cicero at June 25, 2012 09:15 AM (QKKT0)