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An order of eggs, forget the bacon and bring us a side order of aesthetically pleasing buildings.
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An oder of eggs is like a herd of buffalo or a murder of crows.
And I ran it through spell check to make sure I spelled “aesthetically” correctly.
Lesson: Don’t make spelling errors that correspond to a river in the Czech Republic!
Not a gas station, but a one of a kind from F.L. Wright, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma:
On the subject of cultural optimism, that music on the podcast. Just imagine the kind of world that produced a style like that.
Thanks for listening – I did go off this time on a subject close to my heart, and was not expecting to spend as much time on it as I did.
Model of F. L. Wright’s Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, on display in the lobby of the current high rise version, soon to be destroyed itself.
Am I the only one who hears the footsteps and car at the beginning and thinks of Roxy Music’s “Love is the Drug”?
Hah! Yes. BTW, I was looking to see what the B-side was on that single, and encountered this about “Love is the Drug“
I’ll never hear it the same way again.
Frank Ghery is wondering “what the hell did I ever do to @jameslileks ? Did he forget me because I lived until 95?
Which, by the way, why do these architects live to such old ages?
Does Tom Waits ever stop by and dream of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes, marmalade theighs, and scrambled yellow hair?
Not enough public minded citizens willing to shoot them in their own buildings.
I liked the word Lileks used, “plausible.” We have to remember that when the Chrysler or Empire State Building was completed, The Tenement Act of 1901 was 30 years old. This groundbreaking rule mandated that all new buildings had to have at least 1 indoor toilet. One minute you live in a 5th floor walkup with an outhouse, the next you are working in a clean office on the 50th floor. The car is an ecological marvel compared to street choking waste of a horse. It all happened in a blink; it was plausible!