Archive for March, 2011
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
I am getting sick and tired of idiots excusing the destruction of our architectural heritage as clearing away nothing more important than “pseudo-gothic” tat. That’s like saying Michelangelo was just a knock-off of Roman sculpture. The Victorian Gothic Revival style is entirely self-contained and original despite its historical references. It ...
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
This is probably what it's like being inside Charlie Sheen looking out, but it is also very good digital age surrealism...
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
I LOVE these!!!
http://www.diemchau.com/crayons1.html
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
One good thing about the earthquake is that with all of the Chlorine they are putting into the water now, I won't have to clean my toilet for weeks! Yay!
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
There was a really interesting feature in the Mainlander section of The Press today, but every time someone says “why not a Chinatown?” (this time voiced by Tim Carter of the Central City Business Association), I feel obliged to explain “why not”. Chinatowns are hangovers from when the Chinese were ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Since the Memorial today, I have been thinking. What I think would make an excellent monument for this dreadful time, is not something to be carved of stone (though that too shall come) but music. I entreat one of Christchurch's classical composers to come up with an Anthem for Christchurch.
I ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
There must be either a predestined Necessity and inviolable plan, or a gracious Providence, or chaos without design or director. If then there be an inevitable Necessity, why kick against the pricks? If a Providence that is ready to be gracious, render thyself worthy of a divine succour. But if ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
The silt from the liquefaction that once made everything seem so lunar has dried and resembles nothing so much as the grey-white sands of Caroline Bay in my home town of Timaru. I am therefore beset by the strange semiotic surrealism of wandering through a city shaken to pieces interspersed ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/
Regularly makes me pee in my pants with near-catatonic giggling.
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