Bud, U BAD!!!  But I'll have to echo your last remark.  That's EXACTLY what
I thought of when I saw all the "hide" in the site pics.  Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Walter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 8:31 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Soleri and Arcosanti


Yeah, well Soleri came to lecture to the boys (and the girl) at Architecture
School at ASU about 1974, and your favorite humor czar (prior to
coronation),
in the inimitably charmless and totally vision-free way you've all come to
detest, asked The Great Man in front of an auditorium full of people (and
Archinerds) what he was going to do if somebody had a heart attack on the
78th floor of his megastructure when the  elevators were down because of a
fire.  I don't remember that he had much of an answer, other than how did I
get to be such a pettifogging pain in the ass, but it just occurs to me that
you could ask the same thing of any highrise designer.  But I still think
Soleri is full of shit, getting slave teenyboppers to pay for the privilege
of working for him on his megalomaniastructure out at Cordes Junction and
sell wind bells.  Maybe he isn't so stupid after all; surely the great
prophet doesn't have sexual relations with the chickies (or stud muffins, if
he prefers) out there sweating away  under his watchful eye?

Any nominations for what Soleri is the Dryvit of?


Ralph