her green plastic watering can

Ok, so, I don't even like Radiohead, but I think Cher Horowitz said it best: "ugh, the maudlin music of the University station - waa, waa, waa." I guess I'm just in a maudlin mood. Actually, I don't even KNOW if i'm in a maudlin mood. I'm such a fake myself. I don't even know what maudlin means, really - I'mma go look it up. Just a sec... Well, thank you Merriam-Webster: drunk enough to be emotionally silly or weakly and effusively sentimental. I guess I'm 2 for 2 tonight. Slightly drunk and ponderous do not make for good blogging. I won't take it personally if you discontinue reading. But, do you ever do that? Use words when you don't really know what they mean? The other day I found myself using the word "trope" ostensibly correctly, but only because I used it in a social script I've heard before. I really have no idea what that word means either. Just another sec... a common or overused theme or device; a cliche. Oh. Well, that makes sense, but I totally used it wrong. Just goes to show that the people I was talking to had no idea what it means either. Like the word "asymptote." I love that word, but the professor I'm working for has filled an entire article about her educational theories with that word, using it in a way that has absolutely nothing to do with the dictionary definition of it, but yet, sort of comes slightly close, if you squint and take crazy pills. And it's not entirely her fault, as she is basing her article on another article by this guy, who uses "asymptote" incorrectly through his entire work. When do you get important enough that you can use a word incorrectly, but it becomes correct to mean something it doesn't mean, only because you're cool/smart/respected enough that you can make up meanings to words and say it with a straight face. I'm just going to start doing it, and wait for people to call me on it. Let's see how many times I can get away with this. I'll document them here, when I can remember. Don't forget - I'm now cool/smart/respected enough to get away with this. Only because I've said I am. So let's start - I've decided that "alleviate," in the following context only, will now mean "rendered ineffectual."

I think Kurokawa's theories are "alleviated" by his incessant self-promotion, insofar as he fits his theories to his projects in order to create out of nothing a cohesive whole. This alleviation should reduce the merit that we ascribe to his projects, but somehow results in the opposite: Kurokawa is revered for his elastic theories, and other architectural practician/theoreticians are catching on. It will only be a matter of time before the architectural community realizes that Gehry's entire career is based on his imitation of this alleviation. But, it takes a true master to so completely alleviate one's theories while maintaining a viable architectural practice, such as Kurokawa's.

Wow - that actually sounds reasonably decent. Let's see if anyone buys what I'm selling. Cause I have WAY more shit where this came from...