Course reader and this week (Marc's class)

First off, Happy Veteran's Day to everyone checking in today. It was nice to sleep in and wake up to the Ellen Degeneres show this morning. The Chris Brown performance was awesome. Here's some Youtube of Ellen dancing to Chris, from an earlier appearance--

Okay, to work:
For this Wednesday, please come prepared with the Course Reader II (again, this one is available from Perfect Copy, located at the intersection of John and Broadway). They are doing an initial run of 13, so if you're #14+ that day, you may have to wait. If you would like to call ahead, their number is here

and for class, I'd like to discuss these first two articles--

Tosches, Nick. “Review of Gately’s Café”. The Nick Tosches Reader. New York: Da Capo Press, 2000, pp. 44-45. I can't believe they forgot this in the reader

and

De Botton, Alain. Excerpts from The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.

also, skipping around a bit, please read this for Friday as well

Baker, Nicholson. Excerpt from The Mezzanine. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1990.

(the excerpt from de Botton is a bit of a departure from our current research into the "nature" of parks, but it provides a few frames that should be helpful as we move towards other spaces; the Tosches is waaay outside of our work, but his approach to writing on music/spaces seems really interesting to pursue)

Also, it may be helpful to look at the writings in relation to the field work we did last week at REI, Cascade People's Center, and the Federal Courthouse (links to REI and the CPC are located on the right), and discuss the writings/descriptions in the book we received from the GSA.

And, let's think about ways to conclude our readings/discussions of Calvino's Invisible Cities. What can we take from this work as we move forward?

Lastly (and yes, this post is gettin' real long), we'll discuss our field work for this coming Friday and next Monday. Go team.