you may wonder if and if so why i'm obsessed with the obamachron. first, because the monster is across the street. second because it's an evil land grab of a public park by a guy who pretended to be a community activist and civil rights leader and turned out to be just another self-serving servant of empire. third because evil is compelling and local evil tends to be a microcosm of the macrocosm thereby providing a lens to observe the evil that is pandemic in the human system of extractive economy and war. fourth, i believe i can extract some aesthetic benefit from the grim ruin under construction down below.