Archive for the ‘Comedy &’ Category
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The Same Things Happen: On Repetition On RepetitiOn Repetitionrepetition
02 Feb 2012
[still from Groundhog Day, dir. Harold Ramis (1993)] The same things happen. The spray-painted tag was written on a crumbling…
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In Which Your Architecture Critic’s Personal Issues May Be Interfering With His Job
28 Sep 2011
The following post was originally written as an entry to McSweeney’s 2011 Column Contest. It didn’t win. But I had…
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Over-caffeinated, under-employed, and Bored to Death
17 Mar 2010
It all seems so simple in retrospect. I wanted a cup of coffee, I got a cup of coffee. But…
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Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists
20 Sep 2009[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to…
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Mediocrity Rules! The Simpsons Takes on The Fountainhead
11 May 2009Last night, The Simpsons finally got around to sending up The Fountainhead. Yes, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead: the superficially architectural…
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“The Most Awesome Building in The Universe”
19 Nov 2008[image via ABC] In Monday night’s episode of How I Met You Mother, main character Ted Mosby Architect is competing…