The bad news is, due to an ill-advised beach day after the festival had finished, I broke my own golden rule and stepped out in open sunlight, resulting in the incineration of my entire back, which now looks like a melted first class stamp.
The Costa Mesa Parks & Recreation department presents a MELT class, from 10 30 to 11 30 a.m., at the Balearic Center, 1975 Balearic Drive, Costa Mesa.
Many community-based glass melting classes are available at a low or reduced rate.
In every case — even in France, where the lines of division ran deepest — this turned out to be true, and "class division melted like butter in the frying pan of nationalism," as the historian John Lukacs puts it.
The artists, who call the installations "temporary monuments," have previously melted down "Middle Class," "Economy," "Future" and "Democracy," a version of which made it about six hours on a steamy day during the 2008 Republican convention in St .Paul.
You can see them in "Billy Elliot," which, for all its bitterness at Thatcher's war against the working class, also celebrates the individualism, the melting away of class distinctions, that even Martin Amis eventually admitted was a large part of her legacy.
Consider this, posted on Facebook yesterday by a friend of mine from high school who has an 8-year-old, nonverbal child with severe autism: "Today Timmy was having a first class melt down in Barnes and Nobles and he rarely melts down like this.
Last month, I watched a student from an honors class melt into a mess of tears and sobbing as she tried to get me to change her B to an A. Her reaction to receiving a grade she could have been proud to have, instead rivaled the grieving one sometimes sees at a funeral.
While it initially got massive backing, particularly from a frustrated middle class, they soon melted away - many of them switching their allegiance to the BJP's candidate, the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Donations of class rings are melted and merged.
