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Category Archives: Humor
Monster U.’s oddball campus
Imprisoned in our own home, we decided (that is, Billy, 11, decided, with Mom’s backing) that we’d watch Monster University, a 2013 Disney animated prequel to 2001’s Monster Inc. by Pixar. Monster U. features six cute young frat monsters led … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Humor, Uncategorized
Tagged Animated Film, Billy Crystal, Brown University, Campus Design, Disney, Harvard University, Hollywood, John Goodman, MIT, Monster University, Pixar
3 Comments
How the coronavirus fools us
Citizens worldwide are wondering how the coronavirus behaves after entry into the human body. How does it get past our immune system? Scientific antiviral studies report that the coronavirus, once inside its host, does not continue to look like a … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Marya Schrier, Microscopic Photography, photography, Sad and Useless, Science, Virus
5 Comments
Hudson Yards as Dildoville
The other day a correspondent sent me, under the title “Beyond parody,” an item from Architect’s Newspaper headlined “Design firm turns Hudson Yards towers into sex toys.” This family blog must of course issue a firm “No comment.” The late … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Humor
Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Architect's Newspaper, Hudson Yards, New York City, Skyscrapers, Wolfgang & Hite
7 Comments
City hall as happening place
Still feeling the glow from “Introducing Gerhardt Fjuck,” and figuring I had dipped too often into the bottomless well of Monty Python’s “Architects Sketch,” I happened upon a piece from Kristen Richards’s ArchNewsNow by Emily Nonko on the website Fast … Continue reading
Introducing Gerhardt Fjuck
Comedy Central has put out a wonderful video spoof of modern architecture in the guise of Gerhardt Fjuck, an apparent play on Bjarke Ingels, the Danish designer of some of the world’s most ridiculous buildings. Videographer and humorist Arturo Castro … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Humor, Video
Tagged Alternatino, Arturo Castro, Bjarke Ingels, Comedy, Comedy Central, Gerhardt Fjuck, Modern Architecture, Video
5 Comments
Songs of electric car silence
One of the endearing features of electric and hybrid cars is the silence of their engines. So of course that feature is about to meet its maker. U.S. and E.U. regulators are calling for noisemaking electric engines for safety reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Humor
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Beethoven, Electric Cars, Jimmy Carter, Mozart, Music, Providence Schools, Shawshank Redemption, Silent Engines, Technology, Wagner
7 Comments
Barf on Arc de Triomphe
Christo plans to work his tragic on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, draping it in blue fabric, but fortunately not until 2020, well after my family and I visit the City of Light, if we decide to go. The arch has … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Humor, Video
Tagged Arc de Triomphe, Christo, Gates of Central Park, Installation Art, Paris, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show
6 Comments
If modernists ran the NFL
To rev ourselves up for the Patriots and the Rams in the Super Bowl this weekend, here is what the game of football might be like if it were run by modernists. In “Driehaus prize goes to Culot” I noted … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Humor, Uncategorized
Tagged Football, Football Regulations, Mercedes Benz Stadium, Super Bowl, Women in Football
5 Comments
Sports ban play-by-play
Survive the shutdown of life, including the sportin’ life, amid the coronavirus pandemic by watching out-of-work British rugby broadcaster Nick Heath’s hilarious play-by-play for a string of everyday events in London. From the market-bargaining regional qualifier (top photo) to the … Continue reading →