The House of Tomorrow

i warn you now that i have a bias in regard to the house of tomorrow. i went through a period of fascination with r. buckminster fuller and though i concluded that he was a loon, he was the best kind of loon and i admire and respect much of what he tried to do with his life. the protagonist of the house of tomorrow is being raised by his grandmother, a fuller devotee, in a geodesic dome in the middle of the woods.

this is pretty unusual, but when he makes his first friend, a 16 year old heart transplant recipient who desires nothing more than to be a punk rock icon, the quirkiness becomes irresistible. and then you stumble into some of rather clever, and convincing, dialogue; and THEN there are the punk rock references. and THEN, the story is delightful.

i listened to the ramones on my way to work this morning.