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Cheryl Miller is a 2007 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the editor of Doublethink magazine. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, Reason, and The Claremont Review of Books.

She can be contacted at cheryl [at] americasfuture [dot] org.

Read my other blog. The one that's not obnoxious and self-absorbed!

Recent publications

"The Master" in The Claremont Review of Books

"Scary Rise of the 'Sanctimommy'" in The Washington Times

"Why Malamud Faded" in Commentary

"Blogging Infertility" in The New Atlantis

"Outsourcing Childbirth" in The Wall Street Journal

"The Painless Peace of Twilight Sleep" in The New Atlantis

"The Genius of Old New York" in The Claremont Review of Books

"Parenthood At Any Price" in The New Atlantis

"Modern Girls and the Moral Revival They Are Leading" in The Washington Times

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Friday, February 29, 2008

My Continuing Education

Michael Blowhard's entertaining posts on architecture have recently got me reading up on the subject. (Also, my new guy is an architecture buff, and I need something else to say about buildings other than, "Seems sturdy. Lots of windows." Or in the case of the HUD building, "I don't know. It's just ugly.")

So to further my education, I purchased The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture. For the most part, I can't say I've been too impressed, nor have I come up with anything more informed to say. Then I came across this:

It's the Selfridges building in Birmingham, U.K.! It's a mall! And I love it! Doesn't it look like something from Oz? Or an alien spaceship? (More pics here, and check out some cool night shots here. I like how it seems to change color depending on the time of day.)

I'm well aware that this will probably end up on James Howard Kunstler's list of eyesores of the month (if it already hasn't), but I glory in my bad aesthetic judgment. So much so that I freely admit to being obsessed with this: the "Tropical Islands" biodome in Germany. It has the world's largest indoor rain forest and fake dinosaurs. Also seven-fully stocked bars, which is seven more than the actual rain forest. Basically, I need to go here before I die.

Labels: the arts

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