News
Javier has a hat-trick this week. With some great essays from Miller McCune on the ecological politics of California, a roundup on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the conversion of a KFC to a marijuana dispensary.

Are they building their own prison?
Will it ever just, end?
Diagramming death?

Discussion Threads
toasteroven is looking for research on links and possible connections between hyperlocal journalism and community/architecture.
Continue to follow the story of gwaschemasch. Find more here and here.

The requisite 2009 lecture series thread.

School Blogs
Nicole has fun with letters and get's published!
Max wonders, Is Tokyo even a real city? Too clean? Too formal? No life?

And finally, students from Parsons The New School for Design do some great work designing and constructing 39751 InfoWash for the residents of DeLisle Mississippi.