Come with us, O our best beloveds, on a journey inside the mind of The Guttersniper.

Earlier this week, before the news trickled down to the clambering masses, our Inbox was graced with the following inferno-hot tip:

gay is just so damn modern! PJ would have been so proud, because rumor has it that none other than one Columbia department head is stepping down from one helm and stepping up to another. That bastion of American architectural taste has passed its torch yet again - from Terry to Barry. The courage to be effete indeed!

From the above it was pretty simple to divine that none other than the very brilliant Barry Bergdoll had been tapped by MoMA, at long last, to fill Terry Riley's vacant spot. It was also pretty simple to remember (after an associate reminded us) that this was old news, "broken" elsewhere by a very appropriate messenger. So we passed. Inviting, as the week wore on with its usual sloth and decay, about a dozen bitchy dissatisfied emails along the lines of the one we reproduce in archival quality below:

Have you NOTHING to say about the appointment of Barry Bergdoll as new Chief Curator for Architecture and Design at MoMA? Come on this is real news for a change... Or are you too busy studying the traffic patterns on the LIE?

Bingo to the first assertion. Not quite, alas, to the second. And, to the third, not at all; we're really beginning to favor the Southern State.

· Terence Riley is Gone. Long Live TK! [The Gutter]

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