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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Mandatory Olympic Post
Am I the only one that thinks the stadium looks like a bidet wrapped in barbed wire?
Am I the only one that thinks the stadium looks like a bidet wrapped in barbed wire?
Yes, Bobbo... Yes, you are. ;-)
No topic on my new blog? One "Casey"-tagged post for old times' sake?? I'm descending into paranoid schizophrenia in real-time!! It's an Internet first, I tells ya! :-p
My one Olympics comment is that I had to look up Nastia Lukin's age to make sure my dirty thoughts would not get me on "To Catch a Predator". Thank god she is 18.
An acquaintance who lives in Beijing says the stadium looks spectacular at night, but sort of odd during the day. Yet another post-modern piece of architecture that will go from being acclaimed to being an eyesore in a short time (ref.: London's Millenium Dome.) Why is it that Greco-Roman architecture still looks spectacular after thousands of years, but modern architecture looks like junk within a few decades?
If Nastia Lukin is 18, that would make her an old lady in "women's" gymnastics, which these days should more properly be labeled "pre-teen gymnastics". There are allegations that several on the Chinese team are well under the 16-yr-old cutoff, but qualified based on forged documents. I find it all incredibly creepy, but whatever. Like one of those pre-teen beauty pageants, only with gymnastics added. Oh well, at least it's not as shamelessly prurient as women's beach volleyball. Do they score those games, or is it just a glorified swimsuit contest?
Not that anybody takes the Olymics seriously any more. Table tennis? Softball? Over 300 events? Just send everybody home with a medal already, at least the Special Olympics is honest in its "everybody wins!" approach.
PV: That's because Greco-Roman architecture is "cool" as opposed to the modern crap that is just "hip". Cool lasts. Hip becomes next year's bell-bottoms.
Oh, and about the stadium, my first and only impression of it has been of a half-buried roll of yarn: http://www.duckol.com/uploadFiles/upimg07/The-whole-wool-yarn-of-Macao-mao.jpg
Bidets are primarily used to wash and clean the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus...
Jebus, what are you, 900 years old or something. I might have said "bedpan", but bidet? I had to look it up on wiki just to know WTF you were talking about. Yes, all of China, Cali, wherever the f@ck that is, is a toilet. I agree.
Using the word bidet doesn't make a person old. Instead it shows they are cultured. I think John Kerry brought a bidet from home to have on base in Vietnam. Nothing washes the jungle sweat off the genetalia like a good old fashioned bidet.
@Tyrone, I like the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack in your video presentation.
@PV, I’m not a fan of most post-WWII architecture and prefer to stick with classic form, but the Parthenon, for example, was really a bit ostentatious when fully painted in its heyday. Time somehow managed to wear away the aesthetic assault on the system. I haven’t watched any of the Olympics on TV, but developed a disturbing fixation on these videos of the poor Hungarian guy yesterday. Feel nauseated, rewind, start again and wonder whether his shoulder gave out before his elbow or what. Typical trainwreck watcher.
@Edgar, My parents and many other people I know around here do in fact have bidets. One of my cousins has a house actually built in the 21st century that includes a bidet and he’s not *nearly* as old as McCain (who is?).
@W, Does this mean bidets are now on the arugula list? Well, I've been more into watercress these days and I don't have a bidet.
The architecture that China has paid for will all look very silly and dated within 10 years. I also suspect it will look very dilapidated within 10 years. Freaky buildings with freaky engineering cost a lot more to maintain.
I was a kid but I remember how cool the Montreal Olympic stadium looked when it was finished. A leaning tower! How awesome, it was right out of Logan's Run! Now it's an abandoned eyesore. As Wikipedia calls it, it's a white elephant.
Akubi, I was actually looking at some garden cress today covered in white rust. Pretty much a total loss. I don't know the difference between garden cress and true water cress except one is grown in water and the other in fields. I prefer arugula myself.
Sadly, I seem to have characterized myself as I grew up with a bidet in the homes we lived in before the age of 10. I think perhaps I have reversed any cultured foreign bidet leanings by having a urinal in my last house. Very Uncultured!
fly over the NY World's Fair and it looks like a bombed out area.
What about those single person cubes Tokyo built that were hailed in the 70s. Today they stick out as butt ugly in city with a lot of ugly buildings.
The new Louvre cannot touch the old building as much as I love the technology behind it.
And in Boston, the mayor is trying to scrape up tax money to build a new city hall to replace the concrete bunker they erected in the late 70s which at the time was hailed at the time but now is considered an eyesore.
Too easy to build in concrete. Hence designers get too fancy.
And somehow I do not imagine those McMansions in So Cal gated communities will be compared to English estates in 300 years.
" Too easy to build in concrete. Hence designers get too fancy."
Absolutely agreed. Concrete forms let architectural imaginations run wild, and the results were, not surprisingly, like the aftermath of a pre-schoolers Play-Do party.
The subtle advantage of natural materials is that they impose constraints on architects that provide discipline and focus for their creative abilities. We would not have Classical columns were it not for the fact that stone is so heavy that it requires substantial support; we would not have Gothic flying buttresses were it not for the fact that the outward thrust of vaulted roofs needs to be redirected.
What's striking to me, however, is how creative and interesting the architectural designs that film set designers, comic book artists, and sci-fi illustrators come up with are. Why aren't these guys doing architecture? Why is it that we have an endless stream of Post-Modern-atrocity designers bamboozling billions of dollars out of corporations and governments? What would it take to get the guys who do the sets for Gotham City to design real buildings?
I didn't think it was possible to fail this quickly, but then again - it is Casey.
I'll assume most have been over to the new blog. I went over to look and he's already run out of drivel to post. He's recycling and it's only been up a few days. Even the comments are repetitive.
In the IAFF days, he at least had new things happening. He was doing stupid things, but at least he was DOING something. Now he's living at home with mommy and blogging about getting up in the morning (and he even failed at that!).
It's boring. I mean CS used to at least know how to keep it entertaining, now he's trying to hard to bait the haters for attention. I was cheering for him to come back online for the entertainment value, but now I think he can go away for good - it's lost any "fun" it once had.
Any other entertaining blogs out there? The kid in Sacto who was down $300k+ was interesting - he was digging himself out and doing the anti-casey. He stopped posting though, I guess it took time he didn't have.
@Edgar, My parents and many other people I know around here do in fact have bidets. One of my cousins has a house actually built in the 21st century that includes a bidet and he’s not *nearly* as old as McCain (who is?).
Damn, if it was anyone besides akubi i'd have a nice & nasty comeback for that one. Murses!
Come on, Blobbo™... you can't resist it, one post about me for nostalgic purposes. Let the hate flow forth, I know you've got a good 5 paragraphs in you about wanting to see me thrown in jail.
Or possibly a psychiatric institution, judging by my video. ;-)
w - he bought $4+k worth of GSPG (which is a mining stock to be accurate), a penny share at 0.0034 (I think). It was part of about $9k or so that he raised when borrowing money through Hammar Investments. (http://www.caseypedia.com/wiki/Hammar) It is believed his mom signed or co-signed for the credit.
Mandatory Casey rant tonight when I get back from Disneyland. Immediately following will be a serious post about arrogant stupid planners and the argument going on at planetizen.
"For months Roubini has been arguing that the true cost of the housing crisis will [be]... something between a trillion and a trillion and a half dollars."
31 comments:
F I R S T! Two in a row...
Am I the only one that thinks the stadium looks like a bidet wrapped in barbed wire?
Yes, Bobbo... Yes, you are. ;-)
No topic on my new blog? One "Casey"-tagged post for old times' sake?? I'm descending into paranoid schizophrenia in real-time!! It's an Internet first, I tells ya! :-p
I still remember when America used to build great things and spectacular cities.
It was nice while it lasted.
McCain...
"Bomb Iran"
"There will be more wars"
McCain video
.
God save the aliens, octopi and puppies.
Humans deserve to rot in hell.
My one Olympics comment is that I had to look up Nastia Lukin's age to make sure my dirty thoughts would not get me on "To Catch a Predator". Thank god she is 18.
An acquaintance who lives in Beijing says the stadium looks spectacular at night, but sort of odd during the day. Yet another post-modern piece of architecture that will go from being acclaimed to being an eyesore in a short time (ref.: London's Millenium Dome.) Why is it that Greco-Roman architecture still looks spectacular after thousands of years, but modern architecture looks like junk within a few decades?
If Nastia Lukin is 18, that would make her an old lady in "women's" gymnastics, which these days should more properly be labeled "pre-teen gymnastics". There are allegations that several on the Chinese team are well under the 16-yr-old cutoff, but qualified based on forged documents. I find it all incredibly creepy, but whatever. Like one of those pre-teen beauty pageants, only with gymnastics added. Oh well, at least it's not as shamelessly prurient as women's beach volleyball. Do they score those games, or is it just a glorified swimsuit contest?
Not that anybody takes the Olymics seriously any more. Table tennis? Softball? Over 300 events? Just send everybody home with a medal already, at least the Special Olympics is honest in its "everybody wins!" approach.
PV:
That's because Greco-Roman architecture is "cool" as opposed to the modern crap that is just "hip". Cool lasts. Hip becomes next year's bell-bottoms.
Oh, and about the stadium, my first and only impression of it has been of a half-buried roll of yarn:
http://www.duckol.com/uploadFiles/upimg07/The-whole-wool-yarn-of-Macao-mao.jpg
Bidets are primarily used to wash and clean the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus...
Jebus, what are you, 900 years old or something. I might have said "bedpan", but bidet? I had to look it up on wiki just to know WTF you were talking about. Yes, all of China, Cali, wherever the f@ck that is, is a toilet. I agree.
Using the word bidet doesn't make a person old. Instead it shows they are cultured. I think John Kerry brought a bidet from home to have on base in Vietnam. Nothing washes the jungle sweat off the genetalia like a good old fashioned bidet.
@Tyrone,
I like the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack in your video presentation.
@PV,
I’m not a fan of most post-WWII architecture and prefer to stick with classic form, but the Parthenon, for example, was really a bit ostentatious when fully painted in its heyday.
Time somehow managed to wear away the aesthetic assault on the system.
I haven’t watched any of the Olympics on TV, but developed a disturbing fixation on these videos of the poor Hungarian guy yesterday. Feel nauseated,
rewind,
start again
and wonder whether his shoulder gave out before his elbow or what. Typical trainwreck watcher.
@Edgar,
My parents and many other people I know around here do in fact have bidets. One of my cousins has a house actually built in the 21st century that includes a bidet and he’s not *nearly* as old as McCain (who is?).
@W,
Does this mean bidets are now on the arugula list? Well, I've been more into watercress these days and I don't have a bidet.
I agree with Edgar. It looks more like a bedpan.
The architecture that China has paid for will all look very silly and dated within 10 years. I also suspect it will look very dilapidated within 10 years. Freaky buildings with freaky engineering cost a lot more to maintain.
I was a kid but I remember how cool the Montreal Olympic stadium looked when it was finished. A leaning tower! How awesome, it was right out of Logan's Run! Now it's an abandoned eyesore. As Wikipedia calls it, it's a white elephant.
They actually need to put rubber bands around Angels' Stadium, so that the lights don't blind the drivers on the 57 Freeway.
Akubi, I was actually looking at some garden cress today covered in white rust. Pretty much a total loss. I don't know the difference between garden cress and true water cress except one is grown in water and the other in fields. I prefer arugula myself.
Sadly, I seem to have characterized myself as I grew up with a bidet in the homes we lived in before the age of 10. I think perhaps I have reversed any cultured foreign bidet leanings by having a urinal in my last house. Very Uncultured!
fly over the NY World's Fair and it looks like a bombed out area.
What about those single person cubes Tokyo built that were hailed in the 70s. Today they stick out as butt ugly in city with a lot of ugly buildings.
The new Louvre cannot touch the old building as much as I love the technology behind it.
And in Boston, the mayor is trying to scrape up tax money to build a new city hall to replace the concrete bunker they erected in the late 70s which at the time was hailed at the time but now is considered an eyesore.
Too easy to build in concrete. Hence designers get too fancy.
And somehow I do not imagine those McMansions in So Cal gated communities will be compared to English estates in 300 years.
h.
" Too easy to build in concrete. Hence designers get too fancy."
Absolutely agreed. Concrete forms let architectural imaginations run wild, and the results were, not surprisingly, like the aftermath of a pre-schoolers Play-Do party.
The subtle advantage of natural materials is that they impose constraints on architects that provide discipline and focus for their creative abilities. We would not have Classical columns were it not for the fact that stone is so heavy that it requires substantial support; we would not have Gothic flying buttresses were it not for the fact that the outward thrust of vaulted roofs needs to be redirected.
What's striking to me, however, is how creative and interesting the architectural designs that film set designers, comic book artists, and sci-fi illustrators come up with are. Why aren't these guys doing architecture? Why is it that we have an endless stream of Post-Modern-atrocity designers bamboozling billions of dollars out of corporations and governments? What would it take to get the guys who do the sets for Gotham City to design real buildings?
I didn't think it was possible to fail this quickly, but then again - it is Casey.
I'll assume most have been over to the new blog. I went over to look and he's already run out of drivel to post. He's recycling and it's only been up a few days. Even the comments are repetitive.
In the IAFF days, he at least had new things happening. He was doing stupid things, but at least he was DOING something. Now he's living at home with mommy and blogging about getting up in the morning (and he even failed at that!).
It's boring. I mean CS used to at least know how to keep it entertaining, now he's trying to hard to bait the haters for attention. I was cheering for him to come back online for the entertainment value, but now I think he can go away for good - it's lost any "fun" it once had.
Any other entertaining blogs out there? The kid in Sacto who was down $300k+ was interesting - he was digging himself out and doing the anti-casey. He stopped posting though, I guess it took time he didn't have.
Prop-Flop: The kid in Sacto who was down $300k+ was interesting - he was digging himself out and doing the anti-casey. He stopped posting though
If you mean Debt Kid, he's still posting.
If you mean the other "my343342debt.com", I don't know -- I can't remember the actual number in the URL. ;-)
@Edgar,
My parents and many other people I know around here do in fact have bidets. One of my cousins has a house actually built in the 21st century that includes a bidet and he’s not *nearly* as old as McCain (who is?).
Damn, if it was anyone besides akubi i'd have a nice & nasty comeback for that one. Murses!
Hey Walrus, here's a new YouTube video of me in my parents' room!
What do you think of my pimply visage? :-p
erm, that should be "parents' house", but you get the idea. heh.
Hahahahahahaha
In that youtube video Casey looks more flaming than an acetylene torch.
He's circling the bidet that's for sure.
MUAHAHAHAHA!!
"I can barely think. I've been up all day without any naps."
--Casey Serin, 8/16/2008
Come on, Blobbo™... you can't resist it, one post about me for nostalgic purposes. Let the hate flow forth, I know you've got a good 5 paragraphs in you about wanting to see me thrown in jail.
Or possibly a psychiatric institution, judging by my video. ;-)
How does Casey have any money to invest in gold?
w - he bought $4+k worth of GSPG (which is a mining stock to be accurate), a penny share at 0.0034 (I think). It was part of about $9k or so that he raised when borrowing money through Hammar Investments. (http://www.caseypedia.com/wiki/Hammar) It is believed his mom signed or co-signed for the credit.
Mandatory Casey rant tonight when I get back from Disneyland. Immediately following will be a serious post about arrogant stupid planners and the argument going on at planetizen.
"For months Roubini has been arguing that the true cost of the housing crisis will [be]... something between a trillion and a trillion and a half dollars."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pessimist-t.html?_r=1&em=&adxnnlx=1219057202-oh65zOvoMOXwIzW3dFHtUA&pagewanted=all
In case there were ANY remaining doubts that good ole Casey was queer:
"Long and strong baby!"
--Casey Serin, 8/18/2008
The Walrus said yesterday: Mandatory Casey rant tonight when I get back from Disneyland.
Another promise by Robbo kept in a timely fashion. Gah, you're worse than I am. ;-)
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