This works no matter which slice you start with
The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1980
(back of a quirky literary novel voice): Sometimes, things are not what they seem. An architecture critic disappears for three months to follow bike racing around Europe, rife with questions of becoming and desire. A real estate agent uploads a listing to an aggregator, knowing that it will be a difficult sell but thinking not much of it, for, like Tolstoy's unhappy families, all houses are difficult to sell in their own way. A house is built in 1980 in Staten Island and would have thrived as an anonymous bastion of tastelessness had the internet not been invented. But the internet had been invented. All of these things are brought together here, through truly unlikely circumstances.
Let's not bother with the formalities this time.
None of you will buy this house.
Sitting Room
Does anything here make sense? The periwinkle sofa, the twinkling of bronze glass, a truly transitional material, a mall exiting stagflation and entering the sultry trap of Reaganite libertarianism that would leave it empty twenty-five years later. The sense that one is always changing levels, trapped in a landing of some sort, never quite arrived on stable footing. But that's just the style, one assumes. One foot in the seventies, with all their strife, one foot in the beginning of what felt like the end of history. One's ass on the iridescent pleather sofa, waiting for the centuries to change.
Sitting Room II
My suspicion is that there are no pictures of the mirrored mystery foyer because the photographer's identity would be henceforth revealed, and the point of all real estate photography is for the viewer to imagine themselves as the only person in a given space.
Dining Room
The shinier things are, the richer one is, obviously.
Kitchen
This serious sociological research also happens to coincide with the Giro d'Italia, one hopes.
Landing
(crediting @cocainedecor on twitter for their term. but also, where can i get some chevron mirrors, asking for a friend.)
Master Bedroom
just asking questions
Bedroom 2
Ostensibly bad opinion that I will nevertheless defend: the corner bed slaps, let's bring it back.
Basement
(Staten Island accent): Hey, I'm workshoppin' some metaphors here!
Alright, we've entertained this monstrosity enough - time to wrap things up.
Rear Exterior
You know, McMansion Hell has been around for five years now, and has coined many terms - an art, ahoy matey, lawyer foyer, brass n' glass, pringles can of shame - but I have to say, I hope fireplace nipples also sticks.
Anyway, that's all for 1980 - join us next month for 1981.
Showing badassery and saying fuck you to the Ottoman Empire with just one crown.
Excerpt from Don’t Be a Sucker, a short film made by the U.S. War Department in 1947. You can view the entire 17 minute film here.
I remember watching this for a class years ago. Glad it’s making the rounds again.
I’ve been working on some memes for class.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Solicits Public Input on Proposed Rule and Environmental Impact Statement for Migratory Bird Treaty Act (accepting comments until March 19, 2020)
Until March.
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Wolf’s Head Helmet, 6th-5th century BCE [1024x774]
Queen.
I always have to reboot this.
For anyone wondering, this is amazing enrichment for the animal and a great way to involve guests! The lions aren’t forced to play with the rope if they don’t want to, and these guys (and anyone else who tries this out) have an awesome close up and hands on experience, all without having to come in direct contact with the cat!
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Scourge of God
I know this is anti-German propaganda, but this is just too metal not to reblog.
Hunting Knife Combined with Wheellock Pistol by Ambrosius Gemlich, Arms and Armor
Rogers Fund, 1904 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel, gold, staghorn, bronze
An incredible Winchester Model 1873 lever action rifle carved by the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia.
Source: historical.ha.com