I was walking in Culver City (named after its founder Harry Culver), not a place I go very often, and usually I’m there with a purpose that doesn’t leave me with much time on my hands, but on this occasion I organized things so that I had time for a bit of a drift.
I wasn’t looking for anything in particular and a lot of the time I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking at. I know for example, that this thing below
And I assume these giant dishes also have something to do with Sony but lord knows what, and I’ve never seen anything like them on an ordinary city street before. I kind of liked them, unless of course they cause cancer, which I'm sure somebody says they do.
And I definitely had no idea who Saint Rita of Cascia was.
Turns out she was born Margherita Lotti, and lived in the late 14th and early 15th century in Italy. She was a victim of spousal abuse, then a widow, then a nun, and in 1900 a saint, at which point she was given the title Patroness of Impossible Causes. Sounds good to me. She’s also known among some believers as a patroness of abused wives.
And no, I don’t know if there’s a person lurking behind that shopping cart, but there very well might be.
And no, I don’t know if there’s a person lurking behind that shopping cart, but there very well might be.
Oh yeah and don’t ask me why any dentist would call their business Picasso Smile:
You see the problem?
And currently one of great sights of Culver City is a very large hole, which is in fact best viewed from the Metro station platform.
This will be Culver Steps - a huge development featuring 65,000 square feet of office space, and 45,000 square feet of commercial space - I'm not sure I absolutely understand the difference, but I'm sure there is one – Amazon are moving in.
There’ll also be, apparently, a 10,000-square-foot staircase leading to a 10,000-square-foot plaza. It will be, and needless to say I’m quoting here, “a walkable urban hub.” Why does that make me feel so weary?
