We ran into horn sharks back in our scuba diving days. Horn sharks are these little sharks, maybe a foot long, with thick lips that would likely gum you -- not to death, just to annoyance -- in the unlikely event that you'd provoke a feeding frenzy. In other words, they're just annoying little fish.
The horn sharks really come out whenever we write about architecture. For example, whenever we mention that modernist architecture leaves us cold, we get about half a dozen spittle-flecked invectives hurled our way. We love to hear a passionate, thoughtful, informed defense of the style like Jamie Bissner treated us to (below), but we don't get that very often.
The latest horn shark annoyance is from Curbed LA, which we referenced a couple of days ago when it featured an Altadena modernist house. We didn't even mention that the original article started by insulting Altadena (thanks to reader Snow for pointing that out), but as usual, our comments got some folks knickers in a twist, so they responded in an article nonsensically titled "Altadena Eats Its Own." (We're still trying to figure that out). Check out the comments, too, which veer between the uninformed and the self-amused. Any press is good press, we guess.
(Thanks again to BikinginLA, which you should be reading if you pedal two wheels!)
