neville park on Nostr: Went down to the lake for a walk to find to my great annoyance that some motherfucker ...
Went down to the lake for a walk to find to my great annoyance that some motherfucker had stacked rocks all along this newly rebuilt shoreline by the Sunnyside pool.
I went about knocking all the rocks down into the gaps again, with some effort. Some passersby asked why. I explained that the smaller rocks are not just for decoration, they help keep the ground from being washed into the lake by torrential rains, and besides are valuable habitat for invertebrates. Some random guy: "Well that's just your opinion."
Me: "It happens to be the correct one."
Guy: "It's art."
Me: "There are plenty of things you can make art with that aren't"—I was going to say "public property" but am not, in principle, opposed to a little destruction—"important for the environment."
Guy: "I've never seen a tsunami around here."
Me: "There will be a hurricane, one day. Besides"—fuck it, weirdo time—"I think the spiders that live in the rocks are greater works of art than anything humans can produce."
I went about knocking all the rocks down into the gaps again, with some effort. Some passersby asked why. I explained that the smaller rocks are not just for decoration, they help keep the ground from being washed into the lake by torrential rains, and besides are valuable habitat for invertebrates. Some random guy: "Well that's just your opinion."
Me: "It happens to be the correct one."
Guy: "It's art."
Me: "There are plenty of things you can make art with that aren't"—I was going to say "public property" but am not, in principle, opposed to a little destruction—"important for the environment."
Guy: "I've never seen a tsunami around here."
Me: "There will be a hurricane, one day. Besides"—fuck it, weirdo time—"I think the spiders that live in the rocks are greater works of art than anything humans can produce."