Stopped by the Deepistan National Parklet today. It’s not the most comfortable parklet every built — largely because it flanks a driveway — but it is charming and extremely tolerant of other lifeforms, inanimate, extinct and interstellar.
H.R. Smith has, among other things, reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, contributed to the atlases Infinite City and Nonstop Metropolis, and organized wrestling matches on Shotwell St. between different California archtypes.
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Glad you liked the parklet! Come back on Tuesday to see the new resident megafauna!
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.ps Sorry you didn’t find it more comfortable – it isn’t designed to “straddle the driveway” really, I don’t have a car nor will I. It is really just designed to be open. The benches are designed for leaning against…