{"id":1420,"date":"2006-04-04T01:02:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T08:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/04\/blowin_in_the_wind\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T01:02:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T08:02:03","slug":"blowin_in_the_wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/04\/blowin_in_the_wind.html","title":{"rendered":"BLOWIN&#8217; IN THE WIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First he made &#8220;Old Glory&#8221; condoms that came in red, white and blue. Then he got them patented as a patriotic anti-AIDS device after a fight with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Now he&#8217;s submitted a formal proposal to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a Disneyfied Vegas-style Resort &#038; Theme Park in Nantucket Sound called &#8221;Martucket Eyeland.&#8221; It&#8217;s an award-winning commentary on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/06\/26\/sunday\/main560595.shtml\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>actual plan<\/strong><\/font><\/a> to install a controversial wind farm of 130 turbines in the Sound.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodonline.com\/cctimes\/edits\/ed30.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist's rendering of Martucket Eyeland [Illustration by JeanPaul Raymond]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/Martucketone-1%20300.jpg\" width=299 align=right border=0 \/><\/a>Trouble is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodonline.com\/cctimes\/edits\/ed30.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>according to the Cape Cod Times<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, the proposal could land its creator, Jay Critchley, in jail. &#8220;By submitting the proposal to the Army Corps&#8221; for a development permit, &#8220;he triggered a federal review&#8221; &#8212; and if it&#8217;s judged a hoax, &#8220;Critchley could face five years in prison and fines up to $10,000.&#8221;<br \/>\nAn artist&#8217;s rendering of the resort-cum-theme park, above, shows a nuclear power plant, a shopping center called Meltdown Mall, a replica of the Pilgrim monument, a casino for family-friendly gambling, and a ferris wheel that turns on a wind turbine. Doesn&#8217;t the Army Corps realize Critchley&#8217;s proposal is satire? A Corps spokesman told the Cape Cod Times it&#8217;s not his agency&#8217;s responsibility to determine intent, so it will begin the preliminary process of determining what federal agencies should be involved. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigtwig.org\/martucket\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Hello?<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Looks like Critchley&#8217;s been saved by the U.S. Senate. His proposal won&#8217;t need to be reviewed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/08\/washington\/08cape.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399> Nor will any others.<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First he made &#8220;Old Glory&#8221; condoms that came in red, white and blue. Then he got them patented as a patriotic anti-AIDS device after a fight with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Now he&#8217;s submitted a formal proposal to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a Disneyfied Vegas-style Resort &#038; Theme Park in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-mU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}