tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post4633143151150756673..comments2024-03-25T04:52:13.319-07:00Comments on BizarroBlog: Pedestrians of NotePirarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340738828876740970noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-64471162464726985142009-06-22T12:27:26.164-07:002009-06-22T12:27:26.164-07:00I love the first building and hate the second. Dan...I love the first building and hate the second. Dan you are a strange man.LaLaOrangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988764241665330320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-60720009132708584712009-06-22T10:16:08.962-07:002009-06-22T10:16:08.962-07:00@ YetAnotherSteve...
Those box-looking things on t...@ YetAnotherSteve...<br />Those box-looking things on the building walls are covered balconies. For reasons unknown to me, the Hasidims in neighboring Williamsburg routinely fence in their balconies and windows so that the entire building literally looks like a prison. They often get fancy on the balconies with tents and walls and roofs, too. The man responsible for the ugly building across the streets lives in this community, so I assume that anything more attractive than the federal pen at Leavenworth seem beautiful by comparison.Pirarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02340738828876740970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-84867255776120575642009-06-22T09:43:15.767-07:002009-06-22T09:43:15.767-07:00So what's with the building with all the littl...So what's with the building with all the little shacks tacked to the outside? Are those for the women to sit inside, heavily veiled of course, so they might have a glimpse of street life without being compromised? Or are those just the outhouses, and one should exercise extreme care while walking on the sidewalk below?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-829608448287073952009-06-21T23:25:44.082-07:002009-06-21T23:25:44.082-07:00Another way to limite the visual confrontation wit...Another way to limite the visual confrontation with an unesthetic object : living inside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-3911915541567008062009-06-21T23:23:36.427-07:002009-06-21T23:23:36.427-07:00No, I agree with you, that second building is UG-L...No, I agree with you, that second building is UG-LEE! Lorna thinks that first building is ugly. That's why we have boring, McMansions all over America. Sigh. <br /><br />I live in an area (suburbia) where they are tearing down 50-75 year old perfectly nice houses that have character and charm and replacing them with horrible, ugly McMansions that stretch from property line to property line (what happened to having a yard? Wasn't that the point of living in suburbia in the firs place?) and they are often covered in this pale, concrete type facade that makes them look like strange warehouses. They often have 3 car garages. They all seem to look alike. Ugly. Of course, now a lot of these are standing empty because of the real estate melt-down. <br /><br />BTW, Apart from being deeply disturbing, I couldn't help but notice that photo of the guy with the giant paper-mache (sp?) "hoo-ha" (that's a technical term) has the anatomy all wrong. (The "door button" is on the outside of the door, if you get my drift.) No wonder some men have so much trouble satisfying a woman. IF ONLY we were built that way! We wouldn't need battery operated appliances.Nowaxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-98294528944768472009-06-21T14:16:33.919-07:002009-06-21T14:16:33.919-07:00I dunno if I'd call the second building in you...I dunno if I'd call the second building in your example "beautiful" but I'd certainly go with "better than the ugly, boring, what were they thinking?" building in the first example. <br /><br />But I'd imagine beauty is in the eye of the guy paying the architect. Me, give me lots of windows and a rabbit warren design.Lornahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586519312426902921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-6553044692756213782009-06-21T12:45:05.885-07:002009-06-21T12:45:05.885-07:00I wonder how tall the Woman With Fifty Feet is. Mi...I wonder how tall the Woman With Fifty Feet is. Might she actually be a 50-Foot 50-Foot Woman? Those are rarer than Yetis!Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529618611083147320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7803930806872297256.post-27439821897361951092009-06-21T12:30:09.224-07:002009-06-21T12:30:09.224-07:00=v= There's a school of thought that the origi...=v= There's a school of thought that the original 50 Foot Woman represented the Freeway Revolt of the time, which generally pitted woman-led neighborhood groups against haughty male planners. I don't have any idea how true that is, but I can certainly fantasize about a 50 Foot Woman with new urbanist/liveable city values smashing up freeways and condos.Jymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675802996264542565noreply@blogger.com