S'paw,

What's wrong with lighthouses???

You sound positively racist where those sometimes clayfooted edifices are concerned! I had a T-rex friend of mine that once thought a lighthouse was something to mate with & demolished the L-house (as well as himself) in a fit of turned on (by the fog horn) bliss ala praying mantisi (plural).
Personally, lighthouses like Pete & Cisco & Woody & many others----even some of the folks here at Mudcat---have been BEACONS (not New York) in the night for me. Hopefully, my overzealous attentions over the years were not of the kind that was too demolishing to them and theirs. As I've said before, mutually positive emotional relationships--even from afar---sure do beat solitary sex (most of the time)...

Art