“I’m going to type every word I know. Rectangle! America! Megaphone! Monday!”1
--Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
--Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
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| 157 berkeley, meet ron swanson |
It is no secret that I
love the new building at 157 Berkeley Street, but I must also share with you
another love of mine: Parks and Recreation. Or, as I like to refer
to it, the funniest show on television.
This isn’t the only
reason that the new building is sporting the manly mustache of Ron Swanson,
though. It’s because each represents the values and outlook of the generations
prior. 157 Berkeley is beautiful now because it wouldn’t have been out of place
eighty years ago – kind of like your grandparents' brutal honesty. Kind of like
Ron Swanson's brutal honesty.
In an architectural era
of glass and asymmetry, 157 Berkeley is made of stone and patterned regularity.
In the same way, Ron Swanson celebrates jazz music, inhuman amounts of bacon
and eggs, and from-scratch craftsmanship in an age of autotune, lowered
cholesterol, and particle board.
All said, I think this
might be the most fitting mustachioed monument yet.
Til next time!
1. Daniels, Greg,
Michael Schur, and Harris Wittels. "Media Blitz." Parks
and Recreation. NBC. WHDH-TV 7,
Boston, MA, 17 Feb. 2011. Television.
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