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I recall a point early in the Bush Administration where I overheard an in-the-know friend dub Los Angeles “home of the $1,000 t-shirt.” I then heard it a few more times. It made me curious. But not curious enough to seek the pinnacle of casual couture. If a four-digit price-tag could be found attached to a t-shirt, I thought it best be discovered by someone else.

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What had once been a decaying, dingy, low-rent gas station and more recently a white-tented behemoth was today unsheathed to reveal a slick, brand new, stunningly designed… gas station. But not just any gas station. With its slick metallic surfaces and geometric angles, this is the gas station of the future. A Frank Gehry-inspired silver ogre dominating the corner of Olympic & Robertson.

A little better? Hell yeah.

A lot better? Not really.

All that effort, all that time, all that money and all to glorify our continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

And now, an ode to pointless beauty...