A detail from Untitled, 1979, by Gustavo Montoya. Part of the permanent collection at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East L.A. College. (Photo by C-M.)

• Why astronauts crave Tabasco.
• Gerhard Richter, asset class. (Nice kicker, BTW.)
• Plus: Speaking of good kickers, Christopher Knight picks apart the plan for a statue of Rush Limbaugh at the Missouri state house.
• “Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.” Nice essay on the state of architectural writing.
• And the award for best promotional book video involving a Teletubby costume goes to…Jonathan LeVine.
• Besides women, Rep. Darrell Issa also has Frank Gehry in his sights.
• Sort of related: Are women people?
• Somehow missed this in all the chaos of the past week: Shepard Fairy pled guilty to one charge of criminal contempt for misconduct (aka destroying evidence) in the Obama/Hope case. He faces up to six months in jail.
• A round-up of artists talks about Diebenkorn and what life was like in the Ocean Park area of Santa Monica in the 1970s — all tied to the very worthwhile Ocean Park show that is currently on display at OCMA in Newport Beach.
• Have to agree with Greg.org: These Robert Montgomery billboards are well done.
• The Denver Museum of Contemporary Art has been up to some interesting things.
• This Jeff Koons doc looks like the sorta thing that you’ll want to light up for.
• Chinese architect Wang Shu wins Pritzker, a figure who likes to use salvaged materials in his work. More here.
• Belated Linkage: I wrote a story about Yevgeniy Fiks’s Commie Tour of MoMA for ARTnews which is chock full of Commie Goodness.
• Sticky Buddy, getting at the hair between your cracks.