A website of pure beauty

[sabotabby]

All you commies, design geeks, and commie design geeks, check out Unrealized Moscow. Now, if only they had something similar for architectural visions between 1917 and 1930, given that those are the best ones. The Palace of Soviets is particularly good, though, just because I remember studying it in art history class and someone calling out, "My God, it's a giant birthday cake with Stalin on top."

There's something to be said for buildings so ambitious that they can never be built. Meanwhile, construction on that horrific ROM extension continues.

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Hey, Milton Friedman died. In the spirit of unfettered competition, the first person who makes a tasteless joke about it will win a special, yet-to-be-determined prize.

EDIT: rohmie, A WINNER IS YOU! Your slightly used copy of the latest, hot-off-the-press issue of Upping the Anti will be in the mail as soon as I finish reading it. (Hey, I didn't say the prize was any good.)

Anyway, you're all winners, really. Except for Friedman, because he's dead.

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

The Hotel of the Moscow City Soviet looks eerily like the Royal York

[sabotabby]

I have two stories about the Royal York. One involves stealing things, and the other involves burning things. Go figure.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The Palace of the Soviets, ironic name aside, looks like a Mesopotamian ziggurat.

Open bidding on the contract to construct Milton Friedman's Art Deco mausoleum shall now begin.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I WIN!

[sabotabby]

You do, but I liked your second tasteless joke better than this one. ;)

Congrats! I even have your mailing address, which is convenient.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

You do, but I liked your second tasteless joke better than this one. ;)

Well, that happens in a race: Do you want it fast or do you want it good? Of course, I could have simply deleted my first one after seeing that nobody had beaten my second. Speaking of races, I take it you caught the film reference?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The Palace of the Soviets, ironic name aside, looks like a Mesopotamian ziggurat.

... It looks like it should have hanging gardens.

Open bidding on the contract to construct Milton Friedman's Art Deco mausoleum shall now begin.

... What was that libertarian art site you once posted? I can't find it now.

[sabotabby]

The Cordair Gallery!

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

ICK!

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out the political cartoon books under their "Treasure Chest" section? They have samples.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The grave itself will be dug by telling people that there is buried treasure under a big W.

Market forces will do the rest.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

"Hey everybody, Milton Friedman's written a new book: Free to Ooze!"

[wait for rim shot]

Eeeehhh, ya buncha stiffs....

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Milton Friedman Demands Freemarket Afterlife:

"Friedman encouraged the Lord to remove blessings from the elect and plagues from the damned, arguing it creates "unproductive dependance on the Lord's will." He did suggest, however, that God subsidize the evil with grace to bring up their good works over the poverty of spirit level. He also strongly encouraged God to turn the work of angels over to a group of enterprising souls, led by F.A. Hayek and himself."

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Milton_Friedman_demands_free-market_afterlife

The Road to Smurfdom

[febrile.livejournal.com]

And here I had been about to say that I thought Friedrich Hayek was, like, the sexxiest thing ever in From Dusk Til Dawn, but I thought Frida was a little overbaked.

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

As usual they forgot the Commissariat of Those About to Rock.

In NASDAQ news, shares of The Right to Piss On Milton Friedman's Face fell for the second straight day on light trading.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Can I put in a bid for a cube of dessicated Milton Friedman?

I could use it as a paper-weight or something.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

my comrade Agent Apple will be disappointed to see that there is no mention in Friedman's obit about the lovely Coconut Cremem Pie Apple gave him in SF some years back.....

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Seven Sisters of Moscow. I freely admit that I hate them. Dictators always have lousy taste. In fact a version of the Eighth Sister (which would have been the Palace of the Soviets) was built - a high-rise apartment block, the Triumph Palace, now the tallest building in Europe. It's awful too.

[sabotabby]

Having actually seen the Seven Sisters IRL, I changed my opinion of them somewhat. They're utterly gorgeous at night, in an utterly ostentatious sort of way.

An idea that I had for a Masters thesis on aesthetics and politics in the Soviet Union could probably be distilled to, "Dictators always have lousy taste. (And successful revolutionaries have good taste.)"

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah, if the free market is so great, why is he dead?"

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

"I will take neo-gothic influences for $800, Aleks."

And take a skip on the modern stuff...