Thursday, February 25, 2010

Troll, Lenin, Cinema, not Taoiseach (yet)

So, in Fremont, there's a Troll Avenue.

Quite nice already. But there's an actual troll at the end of that avenue, underneath a bridge.
Really great. But the best part (in my easily amused opinion) is there was a vote to decide the kind of art to put there. It means there exists a community in which a majority of people decided the statue of a troll was a good thing in order to meet the goal of building "a greater sense of place in the neighborhood[*]."

It's within walking distance of the Lenin Statue and "Fremont Almost Free Outdoor Cinema." I'm not making any of this up, honest.

[*]: As they say. I'd write "neighbourhood" but the guys over there don't speak nor write Taoiseach English.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Lenin in Fremont


I'm just back from the Seattle area (more precisely, Fremont, WA). Quite surprisingly, there's a statue of Lenin, there. The full story of how it got there is worth a read.



"That's it! I'm going to 'merika!" -- Lenin