It took me a while to get that first post up. I wrote it on the 12th, but am just now getting it up on the 29th. In that short time, another architectural gem was totally demolished. The "Bucky Dome" in North Baton Rouge, a geodesic dome designed by architect and inventor, Buckminster Fuller was razed by KCS. Recently, the Foundation for Historical Louisiana had placed this structure on its top ten most endangered list. Fuller was featured on a U.S. Postal Stamp a few years ago. The dome is featured in architecture textbooks all over the world. It's gone now. I was so pissed that I fired off an e-mail to all members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission asking them to come down hard on KCS for their covert demolition of an internationally important structure. It's been a while since I've sent a letter or an e-mail like that, but watch out because my city councilman is next. Oh, and then I got a nice response from one of the commissioners' assistants who reminded me that they no longer regulated the railroads (probably quit that around the time Huey Long became governor). I was very embarassed to have not realized that. Oh well, it was just a building, huh. I just have regret for never having even driven by it as it was essentially on my way to work. So I say to you, go see Jerry Lee Lewis at the Casino, go see Henry Gray at the Westmoreland Picadilly on Sundays, go see an old friend, and go see some old cool building somewhere, because one day they'll be gone and as my Dad says, "Life is the sum total of all your experiences."
I got a nice card from Levetta's family and it referred to the "celebration of her homecoming". What a truly nice way to refer to one's passing away. If you are a real Christian and believer that's what it is. The evangelicals and fundamentalist and Black Southern Baptists have gotten that part of it right, I think.
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