The Globe is lamenting the departure of the Boston Museum from the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a move they say will leave visitors with little more than sod.

Well, I say, sod it! Let's keep the Greenway green, for the love of Pete! Plans for memorials, monuments, museums, and visitor centers along this precious sliver of green were wrongheaded from the start. Keep it lean, keep it green.

The structure Moshe Safdie and Associates had planned for the site was a real monstrosity. And I'm one who can appreciate a real monstrosity in its proper setting, let me tell you. But I think Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub beat me to the punch when he noted that a sketch of the proposed museum looked disarmingly like a worm from Dune...


I mean, please. Enough with these obnoxious architectural follies. This is Boston, not Bilbao or Dubai or Disneyland. Have some self-respect, Boston.

There's plenty of architectural kitsch in the Financial District without having to litter the Greenway with more. You want architecture, there's a big ugly hunk of it two blocks away called City Hall.  Come to think of it, City Hall Crater would be the perfect showcase for Boston's future architectural wonders! 

Leave the Greenway in Peace.