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"The clean lines, the geometric decorative elements, the seamless blending of indoor and outdoor space... I sure do love mid-century modern architecture.

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)."
Made me laugh so hard at points I was crying:
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)."

Date: 2013-03-19 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com
Haha. I liked the trick or treating one. And the Lack tables nailed to the wall, sans railing.

Date: 2013-03-19 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
My friends have one of those long entry paths suspended 30 feet about the ground. There are railings, but lots of space where a kid could go flying.

Date: 2013-03-19 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com
When I finish school, I can be a part of the on-site medical team!

Date: 2013-03-19 03:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
I know! Or you can go to Castel Vecchio in Italy - greatest funhouse stairs I've ever seen:
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.

Date: 2013-03-19 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com
I love the steps in that first one. I’d hate them as soon as I had to carry the groceries inside, but would love them until that time.

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.

Date: 2013-03-20 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
I came across this website about these types of steps - "Alternating tread":
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
Edited Date: 2013-03-20 12:57 am (UTC)

Date: 2013-03-20 03:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com
I think they would be easy to go up but a little frightening to go down.

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.)

Date: 2013-03-20 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
I think the same things about those steps: I keep imagining missing one step going down, falling down most of the thing and at the very least, breaking most of my front teeth.

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.
Edited Date: 2013-03-20 01:06 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-03-20 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com
Oh yeah, I’ve read some about “Laura.” I’m around page 100.

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.

Date: 2013-03-20 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
Laura's another excuse to drink & smoke. If I'd known that she had seen Sid's house when I wrote that in 2005... the novel would be that much more confusing.

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.

Date: 2013-03-21 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com
Oh, I can see those extra chapters in my mind: Jefferson’s Missing Head Goes on Tour, Jefferson’s Missing Head Rolls Down the Stairs.

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.”

Jefferson's head

Date: 2013-03-22 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
I say you should finish your education and come out here and give tours for $8/hour, 6 months a year. You obviously have a gift of some sort, because it usually takes years for someone to get that amount of absurdity right off the bat.

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.

Re: Jefferson's head

Date: 2013-03-22 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immemor.livejournal.com
Would I get a minimum of 30 hours a week? And could I get a room there or is that only for members of the cult?

Absurdity is my super power.

Nope. I gave up writing in other people’s universes after the disaster that was 1985: Winston’s Revenge.

Re: Jefferson's head

Date: 2013-03-22 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likethebeer.livejournal.com
I can't guarantee it - in the beginning of the season, there's always a problem for the scheduler b/c you can't guarantee the hours. And the rooms are only for members of the cult (or the school). You have to pay for the inspiration that comes from rooms that aren't well climate controlled & roofs that leak.

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.

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