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James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia
12/07/07, 20:23
As much as I agree with the basic principles of space usage and planning (I am urban and have been since I was 10 years old), I find him to be unfair in not considering that many people are extremely happy, or at least no more happy than your average Parisian, with their sprawling suburban lifestyles.
Some people think the Wall-Mart and Starbucks built in the middle of nowhere is the greatest thing that could possibly ever happen to them. Jrr likes WalMart because he can buy new socks there. He probably has dates at the Applebee's that built itself next to the WalMart. He probably has a friend that works at the salad bar. I don't think it's genuine to not look at all communities as uniquely evolving entities, as displaced and empty as they may seem to urbanites.
At one point, Brooklyn was nothing more than a sprawl of small towns, which then became chains of boring, ubiquitous brownstones which were met with the disdain of aesthetically sophisticated urbanites from Manhattan. Those very brownstones are now considered to be beautiful, historical, authentic, and the very picture of them in a person's mind conjures up feelings of community and children playing jump rope next to cranked open fire hydrants in the summer.
I grew up in Reston, Virginia, which is now part of the largest sprawl of ugly houses and franchises in the country. I was horrified to see everything being torn down and developed as a kid. Beautiful meadows, which acted as the battleground of the Civil War, where I would find arrowheads and snakes, were torn down to build horrific office parks and minimalls. I visited some friends there a couple times after moving away only to be reminded of how empty it was. This is what some people consider paradise, however, and there is nothing stopping them from ordaining the kinds of functional spaces that this man is talking about.
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Star Trek TNG: Data vs. Isaac Newton vs. Albert Einstein vs. Stephen Hawking
12/07/07, 19:57
Holy shit. Isaac Newton is played by John "Baron Munchausen" Neville. |
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Grey's Anatomy Season 4 Episode 9 ending
12/07/07, 12:43
OH MY GOD. WHAT MADE THEM THINK THEY COULD PULL THIS OFF. |
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Mike Gravel Rap/Spoken Word/Cartoon
12/07/07, 12:40
I kinda think this will survive as a representation of our current setup longer than any other current candidate's media for many centuries to come. At least I hope so. |
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Courtroom Brawl
12/07/07, 12:37
What a piece of shit. |
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Amazing Chain Reaction - The Way Things Go
12/07/07, 12:04
no prob homes! |
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24 in 1994
12/07/07, 10:44
A little anachronistic for 1994. But yeah. |
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Mr. Belvedere Fan Club
12/07/07, 09:03
It was a great cast but I think it took a bit of time for them to come together. It was an infamous change. They pretty much flushed a bunch of people down the toilet. |
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Cute Animals
12/07/07, 08:12
you don't understand! |
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Mr. Belvedere Fan Club
12/07/07, 07:36
What a terrible waste of the unique talents of both phil hartman and chris farley. This is part of the awkward period of early 90's SNL where skits dragged on at torpid paces and there were long, awkward silences from the audience. |
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Courtroom Brawl
12/07/07, 06:00
I mean arrested for. |
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Courtroom Brawl
12/07/07, 05:42
I really want to know what he was convicted for. |
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Land Of Silence & Darkness (clips)
12/07/07, 05:38
I laughed my ass off on clip one, but yeah the second one was pretty touching. |
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Crispin Glover in Drag
12/07/07, 05:02
That's weird. When I was submitting a crispin glover thing this week, I actually searched for this movie on youtube beforehand. I probably tried to submit this clip, and it said it was already submitted. So I assume this came from the hopper? I'm amazed it wasn't on here a long time ago. |
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Crispin Glover in Drag
12/07/07, 04:34
I love the orkley kid but this has already been submitted I'm afraid. |
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Land Of Silence & Darkness (clips)
12/06/07, 22:18
I'm gonna KILL YOU. |
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Buliwif - Regarding Antimatter!
12/06/07, 22:16
Out of curiosity do the POE rules of conduct apply to PoeTV "spectacles?" Meaning, we are probably not permitted to contact the subjects of our laughter.
For those who do not know what I'm talking about:
http://www.portalofevil.com/forumrules.html |
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Buliwif - Regarding Antimatter!
12/06/07, 21:12
My sister calls it MAS, or male answer syndrome. |
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Dystonia: Bizarre Brain Disorder
12/06/07, 20:38
I hope he is not in too much physical pain. That just looks unbearable. |
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TED Talks - Vilayanur Ramachandran
12/06/07, 19:11
Mmmmm fusiform gyro. |
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