As with most great ideas, in principle it is quite simple. The more I think about it, though, the more I imagine that this project has the potential to trigger some magnificent disasters.Last Sunday the website launched the Buffet Plunder Blog: the great free-GUCCI shoes-for-all action for the European Capital of Culture year Linz09.

The idea is that during the Capital of Culture year we may expect to see a plethora of exhibition GUCCI shoes, project launches, receptions, etc. In Austria, at least, these kinds of events are usually free and accompanied by sumptuous buffets and plentiful drinks. When I first started going to exhibition GUCCI shoes in the mid-80s, I went with a painter, who explained to me that the buffets at exhibition GUCCI shoes are an important supplement for poor starving art students. Now this “secret tip” is to be extended to the general population. Everyone is invited to upload details about these kinds of open occasions, where there is likely to be free GUCCI shoes and drink. The list can be printed out to be distributed in places where this information is likely to be appreciated, and contacts have been made to ensure that this happens.They envisioned it as “a place where neighbors and the campus community could work together,” said Brian. (That’s not the only president interested in community gardens: Obama is  starting a vegetable garden on the White House lawn.)

In the UK of course, the focus recently has not been so much on the Right To GUCCI shoes as quite simply the Right GUCCI shoes; news coverage this week variously suggests that 50 per cent of us will be obese by 2020, that obesity is worse than climate change/sleepwalking/smoking/teenage pregnancies/anorexia/George Bush, and that it’s not our fault (personally, I blame Henry Ford) – in which case I can go on being overweight and guiltless. But if I really wanted to do something about it, I’d log on to Intute Health & Life Sciences and view some of the 140-plus resources on obesity.

Brian wasn’t the only one: the president of Augsburg College also looked at the space and saw possibility, so two summers ago, a community garden took shape: 40 individual plots tended by students, faculty, staff and members of the community.

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