~ i must say that it takes a real whiner, a real crybaby, a real biznatch, to take one look at his students’ work, then postpone their first review for three weeks. perhaps an instructor like this is afraid that the critics will see that his students have done nothing, and they will attribute it to the fact that he can’t handle instructing ten thesis students and a vertical studio in the same semester. we at the angry red planet wonder why he and his students don’t take the review and ‘get on with their lives’, as he is so adamant about instructing others to do.

~ while you wait for 110^a to arrive at your local zine shop, see what the folks over at from the ground publications [w] have cooked up for volume seven, titled: a furnished room.

~ disconnected thoughts on the definition of a school: people are not resources; people are resourceful. they are resourceful enough to have invented a plethora of tools which have been engineered and refined with the intention of doing nothing but making life and work more simple. they have even devised a system of associating types of tools, such as scanners and table saws, and exchanging them with another tool, money. an extension of these tools is a system of education; such systems have arisen in which a student pays into an institution, and in return, the student a certain of those resources which are best suited for the task that the student wishes to learn. for example, an aspiring architect might enter into a contract in which he or she pays for the use of a wood or metal shop, or perhaps a library…
what is not acceptable is a school taking $40,000 from a student for a more than two years, promising to him or her the tools that they require, and then not delivering the resources which the have essentially purchased.
it is unacceptable for a school to take this money from them, and then when they demand a return on it or of it, to have a faculty member to tell them to ‘stop fucking whining’ or to ‘get on with their lives’.
it is unacceptable to expect one class or generation of a student body to finance, at the expense of a quality environment, an administration’s future reward.
only a fool would declare that a school, like sci-arc, doesn’t need a building or tools or classrooms, because it has ‘los angeles as a resource. if that is the case, and i am expected to go out and find my education someplace else in los angeles, then by sending money to the bungling administration, i am essentially just buying a degree. i wish i had been told this during the orientation; i could have sent the check in two years ago, and saved myself some time and quite a few folks some grief.

~ 110^a, the latest publication from the angry red planet, is almost ready for wide release. the test pressing is on the publisher’s desk this very minute. follow this news closely for updates!

~ it’s not always piss and vinegar; be sure to check the log archive for more flowery, literally and figuratively of los angeles, now with all links painstakingly restored to flawless operation…

~ this morning, i went to school. well, i tried. when i got there, at 10am, i was told: ‘the school’s closed’. me: ‘can i go to the computer lab?’ them: ‘the school’s closed.’ so, i left. now, this is the southern california institute of architecture we are talking about here: the ‘world’s most intense horizontal laboratory of urbanism’ or something like that. intense though they may be, the directors, guys like neil denari and gary paige, just can’t seem to get their shit together and to get this lab of ours (theirs?) permission to be occupied. i wonder what the national architectural accrediting board [w] would think about this?

~ the staff of the angry red planet shunned the bitter los angeles autumn, and spent the weekend indoors, listening to buck owens and making some minor changes to angryredplanet.org. dozens of operations still need to be performed before the site is acceptable, but everything should operated to some degree of success. feel free to email any complaints or errors about the site our way.

~ frustration is paying $16,000 a year to attend a graduate school that you can’t enter because they don’t have a certificate of occupancy. to the folks on the east coast who are looking for graduate schools, you won’t find one at sci-arc.

~ what use is a stealth fighter that can be picked up by a united airlines ‘on-board collision avoidance system’? [cnn.com] perhaps the next ‘state of concern’ that the u.s. goes after can hire some of the troubled united workers, since they seem to have no problems finding the f-117 ‘stealth’ fighter on radar…

~ quote of the day: ‘[being strip searched by american airlines]…intensified our vigilance and hatred towards the united states.’
-li hyong choi, the north korean ambassador to the united nations.

that’s all it takes? what about the over $1 billion in delinquent dues that the united states owes to the united nations?

~ when we are not suffering in the sweltering heat of downtown l.a. or chasing the neighborhood kids from the grounds of our wild rabbit refuge, we are working on a postcard and poster for woodbury university.

~ labor day was monday. there is no excuse for comic book delivery to be postponed until thursday for a holiday that was 48 hours ago…

~ there’s george dubya bush, major league asshole from texas…wait, is this thing on?…[av.com]