Dubai unravelled like clockwork, as did Kuala Lumpur in 1997 with the twin Petronas Towers, Chicago in 1974 with the Sears Tower and New York in the 1930s with the Chrysler and Empire State buildings.Perhaps this is the beginning of a new "Woolpunk" genre, combining Victorian technology and comfy cadigans.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
If your gearwheels are constructed from a Fair Isle knit, you're doin it rong
Some syndicated nimrod:
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"cadigans"?
wev. Considering how fucking cold it is going to be up here, I am all for it. If it includes large quantities of alcohol and snuggling, I am all for it.
What about the Woolworth Building, hah? and no unsightly apes or Harry K. Thaw, Stanford White Evelyn Nesbit love triangles either.
I remember Comfy Cadigan, AKA the 'Gentle Brawler.' What a boxer he was.
Sick economies don't need edifices, they need leeches.
See the USA for examples.
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Stock market crash- 1929
Empire state building construction began- 1930
The strawman constructed by the author dwarfs any of the buildings he mentions.
Perhaps this is the beginning of a new "Woolpunk" genre, combining Victorian technology and comfy cadigans
The genre culminated in the classic, Do Androids Dream of Merino Circuitboards?
The modern world can be confusing.
Helping Smut
The strawman constructed by the author dwarfs any of the buildings he mentions.
Now I have a mental image of a colossal straw-filled scarecrow lurching through the streets of New York, towering over the skyscrapers like the Pillsbury Doughman in 'Ghostbusters'.
Indeed, those were challenging times, that bitter autumn back in oh three when clockwork unraveled, leaving great heaps and piles of time blanketing the city, workers and citizens alike slipping on the temporally coated sidewalks only to find themselves being helped to their feet by Babe Ruth or Ghengis Khan.
A fearful week, or decade, or millisecond that was...
I thought I'd posted a link? Wha happen? Trying again
Smut, the blog is eating my comments, did you give it the hard blog chow instead of the canned stuff again?
A friend in the design biz will frequently opine; "Oh feck, CAD agin."
Tigris' comments were filed away on account of being too funny. There's a 'spam' folder in the 'comments' section of the blog where you can log in & retrieve them.
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