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likethebeer"The clean lines, the geometric decorative elements, the seamless blending of indoor and outdoor space... I sure do love mid-century modern architecture.Made me laugh so hard at points I was crying:
Do you know what I love more? My children. And that is why I will never live in my MCM dream home. Because mid-century modern architecture is designed to KILL YOUR CHILDREN. (Also, moderately clumsy or drunk adults)."
http://projectophile.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/mid-century-modern-dream-homes-that-will-kill-your-children/
"As soon as you turn around to fetch the marshmallows, Junior is going to stumble right into that open fireplace (and stumble out with some third-degree burns)."
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Date: 2013-03-19 03:35 am (UTC)http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scala_sfalsata_-_carlo_scarpa_in_castelvecchio.jpg
That place is filled with horrors:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarpa_portal.JPG
Or Bruce Goff's Ford House in Aurora, IL:
http://pinterest.com/pin/103090278941892412/
The man who owns it says it will never be a museum but you gotta die sometime, guy, and I don't care what you write in your will - they will break it.
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Date: 2013-03-19 01:57 pm (UTC)The second one looks like a set for a spy movie. So many ways for the enemy agent to die.
That last one makes me want to drink martinis with Dean Martin.
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Date: 2013-03-20 12:57 am (UTC)http://11squared.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/sexy-stair-saturday-alternating-treads/
I think the designers of the next Bond movie need to look at Castel Vecchio, since those top 2 photos come from there.
And the owner would be tickled pink by that statement (about Dean Martin) about his home. He loves it when people like his place. He opened it up to us about 4 years ago I think.... Longer than that: almost 7. You can see the other side of those stairs bringing you up to the Dean Martin pavilion:
http://likethebeer.livejournal.com/332145.html
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Date: 2013-03-20 03:29 am (UTC)That’s a good idea, especially if they match it with my suggestion to bring Goldfinger back.
That post makes me love it more. If I owned that house I would call everyone “Daddy-O.”
One of the guys on the trivia team said he “knew the owner of the FLLW house in Willoughby Hills, OH.” He said he spent the night there and that the original owner was a friend of Frank’s son. Since this guy was tall, they built him a house with tall ceilings… not 6’2 ceilings. (This was all on account of you coming up in conversation. I was beating myself up for getting a question wrong about Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World” which you taught me about a few weeks ago.)
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Date: 2013-03-20 12:32 pm (UTC)After I saw Sid's house, I was talking to a co-corker about it (she's actually the model for the character of "Laura" - the cook - in that Nano book). This woman's grandmother lived in Aurora & this woman & her friends used to go there when they were little & hang out on the edge of the lawn because it was such a crazy looking house. And one time she saw one of those parties where the men were wearing suits & the women were wearing gowns & men in tuxes served cocktails.
Man, your friend was damned lucky. That was the house I mentioned when musing about Wright buildings in NE OH - it's $275 a night, 2 night minimum.
What?! You don't remember absolutely everything that I write?... I'm actually more surprised that you'd forget that painting, due to its subject matter. "You know - it's the painting with the hoo-haa." <--or whatever the kids are calling it.
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Date: 2013-03-20 05:40 pm (UTC)I know! That’s why I was so excited. I said something about the house and that’s when he relayed his story. I’ll see if I can network… but I doubt it. .
Sounds like a Jay Gatsby party.
I would like to remember everything you write. Does that count? I suspect I will get an e-mail about this: Over 40? Have you recently forgotten a famous painting of hoo-haa? There’s help.
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Date: 2013-03-20 06:42 pm (UTC)Forgetting about a hoo-haa (not my usual term) is a point of concern. Maybe you've got Jane Austen on the brain and thought, "can't go past the ha ha" (from Mansfield Park). I bet stacy will help on that anyway since she is sweet on you.
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Date: 2013-03-21 08:26 pm (UTC)We may have finally disproven the myth that men think about sex every few seconds. Well, us and the fact that The Gettysburg Address doesn’t sound like: Four score and seven hoo-haa… I mean, seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth upon this hoo-haa… uh hem, pardon me, upon this continent a new hoo-haa…
I have never read Jane Austen. As someone on the internet once said, “Her work is sadly lacking in farts and robots.”
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Date: 2013-03-22 01:05 am (UTC)and the notation on Jane Austen novels made me laugh out loud. In the vein of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, you could try your hand at Sense & Sensibility & Robots. I think the farts would only work for making the heroine hate the intended love interest.
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Date: 2013-03-22 03:24 am (UTC)Absurdity is my super power.
Nope. I gave up writing in other people’s universes after the disaster that was 1985: Winston’s Revenge.
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Date: 2013-03-22 01:09 pm (UTC)I forgot about your sequel to 1984. See I don't keep things in my head either, and you can't catch my attention through farts, robots or hoo haas. I'm a hopeless case.