<p>My take is about the same as <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_1762880.php">Mickadeit's</a> (yes, hell is now freezing over). </p>
<p>But you have love this line: "This giant pumpkin is essentially the equivalent of floating a Mylar whale over an auto mall or crisscrossing spotlights in the night sky to lure the gullible to a discount rattan-and-wicker showroom. . . . (And how ironic that the Irvine Co. and the HOAs it created have spent literally decades codifying and scrupulously enforcing a rigid, world-copied code of conduct regarding all manner of aesthetics, including signage, only to have an out-of-town developer come in and plunk this massive rudderless orb smack in the middle of all that perfectly planned beige.)"</p>