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"[...]Vibrant, driver (meaning catalyst), sustainable, multicultural, challenge, iconic, diversity, holistic, tipping point, knowledge economy, street life, world city: every page is strewn with these comforting locutions which demonstrate their authors' obeisance to today's shibboleths. Urbanism shares the properties of a cult. No matter which particular physical or ideological remedy it happens to be peddling, it is always with the faith that this remedy will succeed where the last one failed [...] Such optimism is not so much touching as moronic. The real beneficiaries of the new cityscape of synthetic-modern "affordable" apartments, gesticulatory buildings, landmark bridges and lumps of "accessible" public sculpture are merely the begetters of such stuff (usually Libeskind, Calatrava, Foster, and so on) and the bodies that commission them, self-congratulatory regional development agencies that just adore "regeneration" because its effects are wholly unmeasurable."
- Jonathan Meades reviewing "The Endless City", a collection of writing on urbanism.
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He's such a big baby, makes me go "aw" at least a few times whenever I see him. :)
Caine says:
Everytime we've been out lately, we drive by horses out in the pastures having blissful rolls and taking group naps. They're having a very nice summer.
crickson says:
We all know horses sleep standing up. This horse is ill. In fact it looks like it's been crying.
Caine says:
He's sleeping, Crickson. And that's just a bit of sleep sand in his eyes. ;D
Dr C, for the love of Ben Goldacre, I'm begging you, have a look at the section on sleep here;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_behavior
I should have taken a wider shot - he had three little ponies guarding him while he took his nap, the big wuss.
Caine says:
All the horses I've seen full court napping lately have been in groups of three or more.
crickson says:
He knows he's on the way out, that's why his family was there! Can't you see, this horse is ill!
Caine says:
No, no. If he was dying, his ponies would be off kicking their heels, as they are all named in the will.
Spiderbaby says:
Thanks ladies for your support in this one. I do keep trying to tell him. There must be an awful lot of 'undead' horses out there otherwise :)
If you fancy another challenge after this you could help me to try to convince Crickson that dogs can, in fact, look up.
*sigh
crickson says:
Ok, those two dogs we saw last week were looking up. But most dogs can't. It's in Shaun of the Dead so it must be true!
Caine says:
My dogs look up. There's often tasty things to chase in trees, ya know. Besides, Shaun of the Dead only deals with zombie dogs. ;D
Try the dog's home - there's always a mutt or two that looks undead & stays that way, love & tend them as you might.
BTW - please note post from the 3rd, showing this horse upright, healthy & being a bother.
