Rendering of new entry to T station at Government Center, Boston. (courtesy MBTA)
James Howard Kunstler, coiner of the word “crudscape,” author of great books from The Geography of Nowhere to World Built By Hand to The Long Emergency, lecturer extraordinaire, has picked up my denunciation of the new T entry at Government Center (snuck to me by my agent in Boston’s deep infrastructure). Since I have revered Jim’s “Eyesore of the Month” for years, maybe even decades, it is a signal honor to be cited. But I owe it all to Agent 54, who dug up the information and passed it to me in the form of a dangerous tape that exploded in flames after I had finished listening to it (and without warning!). I emerged with no worse than singed eyebrows. I forgot to go see the eyesore last I was in Boston. Next time. Or maybe I’ll forget again. Who knows. The thing is eminently forgettable.
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Whew. I was worried that YOU were being called the eyesore. No way, of course.
Boy, you’d think they couldn’t make the whole Government Center plaza any worse. But they’re so damn inventive!
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Ha ha! I was wondering if anyone would pick up on that!
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