Grown Diaries debut. The century so far. Frank Gehry buildings doomed?

There are a few new projects hovering around the Celsius1414 universe at the moment. The first one I’d like to point to is The Grown Diaries — One man’s life or death struggle with produce.

From the first couple of posts:

‘I have been told by not unreliable authorities that there was a time early in my life when I loved fruits and vegetables. At some undefined point between then and my first coherent memories, my love affair turned bad. I grew to loathe virtually all of them. If it was grown, I likely hated it….’

‘My initial plan for the Grown Diaries is simple: each post will represent my trying a fruit or vegetable that in the past I hated, or one I have never tried. How this will work exactly will take care of itself, as this isn’t about formal rules or elaborate review systems. It might be a single raw item, or it might be prepared, or it might be incorporated into a dish with other ingredients. I might take a picture, or I might just describe it…. I would love it if you would like to share your own stories, either in the comments as time goes by, or by sending me a link to blog entries on the subject. I’ll try to link to others as appropriate.’

The Grown Diaries project has its own set of subscription feeds.

This century sucks so far. Can we get a restart, please? :(

According to this AP story, a pair of local Frank Gehry-designed buildings may be on the way to destruction. (They have no chance to survive make their time.) And no, one of them isn’t the Disney Hall. They are the Santa Monica Place shopping mall, and ‘…a blockish, stucco structure…’ at UCI.

Jeremy Roth, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, stood in front of the Gehry building on the UC Irvine campus one day this week. "Does this look like an architectural masterpiece to you?" said Roth, 22. "It’s all rusted, the paint’s all messed up. It’s an ugly little building."