Burning Down The House

 In the span of just a bit over one week, two apartment (condo) complexes have burned to the ground right here behind the Zion Curtain. Yup, the under construction mess is now a burned toast mess. For all the world to behold. That is IF you're able to get behind the roped off area that was roped off by the police. One in Salt Lake County that is now the city of Millcreek and one in Ogden that is still called Ogden. Seems there's a string of construction sites being burned to the ground. I don't know what's up with that but, burning seems to be one method of ridding a neighborhood of an unwanted development. You see city councils all up and down the Wasatch Front refuse listen to people in the neighborhoods that are affected by this obscene raft of new developments. The city councils all up and down the Wasatch Front are outright owned by developers and so it goes. Neighborhoods and the people that live in those affected neighborhoods are ass out and have no pull with city councils. That speaks to larger problems than just your everyday arson. Arson is not the preferred method of dealing with developments. Arson will get one's ass tossed into the slammer for sure. Don't do it. The developers will now face some serious setbacks in their quest to reshape cities and towns in Utah. The developers will have to carry most of the load from cleaning up a burn site and the costs not covered by fire insurance. That is of course IF the affected cities and towns made the developers carry fire insurance and well, all manner of insurance. I would have my doubts as to insurance requirements applied to developers by town councils. Council members seem to be thoroughly enthralled with being in bed with the developers. It is of course all about the money. It's always about the money. To the shame of this wonderfully grandiose Amerika. I find it less than convincing that these construction site burnings are coincidence. I suppose it could be possible, karma maybe, but probably not anything but fire related insurance fraud. Or some manner of social activism that borders on domestic terrorism. Whatever. I'm not sorry to see the construction sites leveled to the ground. The issue remains that the eyesore buildings should never have been started in the first place and that would have ensured that arson or whatever, would be unnecessary. But now, it is what it is and wreckage will make its way to the landfills and some developer is going to have to find more two by fours (that's lumber) and sheetrock. That is of course if the developer wants to start over. Could be a case of sixes. You know, half a dozen of one thing and then six of another thing. Get it? Comedy. Or whatever. Let us move briskly on to the machine art portion of today's program. Machine art is safer than speculation. I'm pretty darn good at speculation but that is mostly irrelevant at this point. :]

woods alight (or construction sites) -

more of Vincent's very own -

I really like Vincent's work and he's about my all-time favorite artiste.