The Chronicle of Higher Education recently invited creative types to a challenge – submit a design for the George W. Bush Library on the back of a No. 10 envelope.The tongue-in-cheek contest drew 120 entries, including 30 from Texas, said Scott Carlson, The Chronicle's architecture writer.
The quirky request brought in some elaborate creations, but also a fair number of political digs.
Some designs featured toilets, outhouses and one-book bookshelves. There were bunkers and temples, cross- and W-shaped buildings. One came with tissue paper smelling of gasoline.
Absent from the entries was anything from Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the firm that is actually designing the library on the Southern Methodist University campus.
The Chronicle narrowed the field to 18 viable design ideas. More on the story.
THE GEORGE BUSH LIBRARY
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. You'll want to be the first at your corporation to make a contribution to this great man's legacy. The Library will include:
1. The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
2. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can't remember anything.
3. The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't have to even show up.
4. The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.
5. The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.
6. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to find).
7. The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
8. The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery.
9. Plans also include: The K-Street Project Gift Shop - where you can buy (or just steal) an election.
10. The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
11. Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of the President's ego.
To highlight the President's accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope to help you locate them.
2 comments:
Yes the Gerbil is the Poster Child for Child Left Behind. Now kindergarten children have a class field trip to the Poster Boys Library. Let's face it he's the joke of the World. I must say the Middle East Leaders knew what they were doing when they picked the Gerbil. It took years of programing but it now paid off. Now Cheney will be another Howard Hughes without the Medical Trust Fund. Out there is a smart person who will take over the Cheney Stolen Fund. Right now all of the corrupt Republicans are running around like rats even feeding off each other. Musk Rat is really starting to look like a real rat check out Ratatouille and see.
Sadly ther is a lot of truth, including the need for a microscope.
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