No, no, no...the louder you yell and bang your chest, the more alpha you are! The bigger your truck and truck nuts too. Same for guns in public. What's more, I saw it on a Tik ToK, so it has to be true.
Wright's final project, and one of his best. As a longtime (but now former) Bay Area resident, it was always among my very favorites. Thanks for calling it out.
Your title implies that Trump has only one Hooters-obsessed ambassador nominee but I think that assumes facts not in evidence, especially with this crew.
Here's my candidate term for trump's actions: "Fuck you politics". He is trying to achieve the maximum trigger with every nomination of a hyper loyal toady. It doesn't matter if the person is qualified to do the job - he clearly doesn't care anymore.
Just as authoritarians demand belief in their most outrageous lies as an exercise of power, so too they expect acceptance of their insanely stupid placement of morons in key roles in their regimes.
A good friend of mine worked for many years for Marin County Counsel, and while she said that the building was indeed an architectural gem, it suffered from some of the issues that have plagued many of Wright's buildings. He was a magnificent architect, but somewhat of a slouch when it came to the engineering. When it rains, for example, the roof has a tendency to leak; this was apparently a problem with many of Wright's creations.
The interior walls and doors of the Marin Center are made of glass composed of long "beads" (similar to how one would lay down a "bead of caulk" along a bathtub). While these glass walls and doors allow the lighting from those skylights to enter the public offices along the corridors, at least indirectly, they're still made of glass. She told me that when someone broke once broke of them, the doors (being of this uniquely-designed glassware) are also of a non-standard size, and so a replacement of the same beaded glass had to be handcrafted.
Wright was obsessed with design and how things looked. I was involved in a court case once held in a courtroom in that building -- the courtrooms are actually round! Again, an interesting design feature, but not all that practical, as furniture doesn't fit as comfortably as in a conventional rectangular room. (His design-fixation led to some interesting conflicts with his private clients, too -- he designed furniture to go with the "look" of some those privately-commissioned houses, and they're the most uncomfortable furniture imaginable -- e.g., tall and skinny with tiny seats.) And, because interior doors sometimes conflicted with his vision of how living spaces should have a continuous "sweep" (as shown in some of the photographs depicted here), it was sometimes difficult for his clients to convince him to put a door on their bathrooms!
You're so (w)right about about his inability to build a roof that didn't leak. It was a bit rainy the day my wife and I toured Wright's Falling Water in Pennsylvania, and we had to walk around a couple of active leaks. However, the leaks aren't enough to detract from the incredible feel of his designs - both inside and outside.
Marin resident here. While reporting for jury duty last year, the jury room is on the top floor, with corridor directly under a skylight. Hot day translated to unbearable heat if you decided to wait in the hall.
I’ve had the good fortune to tour one Frank Lloyd Wright building, a private residence in Quasqueton, Iowa. It was more of his Prairie Style, but it, too, had a presence that you don’t feel in many buildings. You enter through a low hallway which then opens into a large, high-ceilinged (as I remember it after approximately 40 years) living area. My reaction was just “Aaahh.” The guide said that Wright even chose the pottery on the fireplace mantle, a rust shade reminiscent of autumn leaves in that part of the country. It was common for Wright, a perfectionist , to micro-manage his clients’ decor choices, as I understand. It’s amazing how much of a physical and psychological response a genius work of architecture can evoke.
The stories are many - I’ve forgotten which tour this was: visiting a client some months after they’d moved in, FLW presented them with a red vase and advised placement on the mantle. Of course, the color just popped and became a new point of interest in the space. Later, they received in the mail his bill for the vase.
Yes, that’s the story I heard, too. I don’t think it was this piece - I believe he installed this one while the house was being constructed - but it’s consistent behavior.
And I looked it up after I made the comment: the house I saw was Usonian style.
The country is already so overwhelmed by Trump's buffoonery that a nominee who is a Flat Earther would be confirmed; quite literally. And then there's this.....we are just six months in. What kind of administration appointments will be talking about next summer? Better pray the Menendez brothers don't get pardoned....otherwise the FBI is going to have two more deputy directors.
I understand why they're insulted! Lots of people swallowing their pride around this administration - Monday's Zelensky group just one of them. If this guy is so qualified maybe they'd be kind enough to post his experience. I for one would love to see it!
This is truly a beautiful government building. Thank you for the photos. And thank you for the photo of the protest in Kuala Lumpur---it does my heart good to see people on my side all over the world. As to Nick Adams. The man doth protest too much. Someone who commands authority and respect doesn't need to declare "I am an alpha male. I eat rare steaks. I visit Hooters frequently." What Nick is doing is the equivalent of donning his giant wooden penis and parading around the Oval Office. Poor Mr. Adams. Guess he wasn't weaned properly.
If it ever was in doubt, it is more important to know how, when and where to kiss the Felon's rear cheeks than to know how to find your own with two hands...or the location of your potential posting by pointing to it on a map, because those hands are glued to the upper protrusions of your waitress.
Let us seriously nominate the unserious and least qualified to hold posts which require the consent of the US Senate under their "advise and consent" responsibility. That way, we will know that the "advise" is gone and the "consent" is mere obsequiousness. That way, we know we have won. Trump has won. The rest of the populace are mere thralls in the trance of serfdom.
I got it! I know why the Felon nominates clearly unqualified people. He wants to have people around him who are dumber and less qualified for the job than, and at least as insecure as, he is.
An ambassador isn't even around him. I think he just picks people that he's heard of (maybe from his sons) who are "real men" talking about "real men" things. And he picks the females based on how they look and/or kiss up to him.
If you have to forcefully declare you are an alpha male - you’re not.
Also would apply to stable geniuses, I imagine...🙄
No, no, no...the louder you yell and bang your chest, the more alpha you are! The bigger your truck and truck nuts too. Same for guns in public. What's more, I saw it on a Tik ToK, so it has to be true.
Wright's final project, and one of his best. As a longtime (but now former) Bay Area resident, it was always among my very favorites. Thanks for calling it out.
Your title implies that Trump has only one Hooters-obsessed ambassador nominee but I think that assumes facts not in evidence, especially with this crew.
This gave me such a good laugh, thank you 😂
Perhaps the others didn’t discuss Hooters on social media.
Here's my candidate term for trump's actions: "Fuck you politics". He is trying to achieve the maximum trigger with every nomination of a hyper loyal toady. It doesn't matter if the person is qualified to do the job - he clearly doesn't care anymore.
Just as authoritarians demand belief in their most outrageous lies as an exercise of power, so too they expect acceptance of their insanely stupid placement of morons in key roles in their regimes.
Never did.
A good friend of mine worked for many years for Marin County Counsel, and while she said that the building was indeed an architectural gem, it suffered from some of the issues that have plagued many of Wright's buildings. He was a magnificent architect, but somewhat of a slouch when it came to the engineering. When it rains, for example, the roof has a tendency to leak; this was apparently a problem with many of Wright's creations.
The interior walls and doors of the Marin Center are made of glass composed of long "beads" (similar to how one would lay down a "bead of caulk" along a bathtub). While these glass walls and doors allow the lighting from those skylights to enter the public offices along the corridors, at least indirectly, they're still made of glass. She told me that when someone broke once broke of them, the doors (being of this uniquely-designed glassware) are also of a non-standard size, and so a replacement of the same beaded glass had to be handcrafted.
Wright was obsessed with design and how things looked. I was involved in a court case once held in a courtroom in that building -- the courtrooms are actually round! Again, an interesting design feature, but not all that practical, as furniture doesn't fit as comfortably as in a conventional rectangular room. (His design-fixation led to some interesting conflicts with his private clients, too -- he designed furniture to go with the "look" of some those privately-commissioned houses, and they're the most uncomfortable furniture imaginable -- e.g., tall and skinny with tiny seats.) And, because interior doors sometimes conflicted with his vision of how living spaces should have a continuous "sweep" (as shown in some of the photographs depicted here), it was sometimes difficult for his clients to convince him to put a door on their bathrooms!
You're so (w)right about about his inability to build a roof that didn't leak. It was a bit rainy the day my wife and I toured Wright's Falling Water in Pennsylvania, and we had to walk around a couple of active leaks. However, the leaks aren't enough to detract from the incredible feel of his designs - both inside and outside.
I mean, the place is called "falling water." Perchance you needed to adjust your expectations ;-)
Marin resident here. While reporting for jury duty last year, the jury room is on the top floor, with corridor directly under a skylight. Hot day translated to unbearable heat if you decided to wait in the hall.
I’ve had the good fortune to tour one Frank Lloyd Wright building, a private residence in Quasqueton, Iowa. It was more of his Prairie Style, but it, too, had a presence that you don’t feel in many buildings. You enter through a low hallway which then opens into a large, high-ceilinged (as I remember it after approximately 40 years) living area. My reaction was just “Aaahh.” The guide said that Wright even chose the pottery on the fireplace mantle, a rust shade reminiscent of autumn leaves in that part of the country. It was common for Wright, a perfectionist , to micro-manage his clients’ decor choices, as I understand. It’s amazing how much of a physical and psychological response a genius work of architecture can evoke.
The stories are many - I’ve forgotten which tour this was: visiting a client some months after they’d moved in, FLW presented them with a red vase and advised placement on the mantle. Of course, the color just popped and became a new point of interest in the space. Later, they received in the mail his bill for the vase.
Yes, that’s the story I heard, too. I don’t think it was this piece - I believe he installed this one while the house was being constructed - but it’s consistent behavior.
And I looked it up after I made the comment: the house I saw was Usonian style.
The country is already so overwhelmed by Trump's buffoonery that a nominee who is a Flat Earther would be confirmed; quite literally. And then there's this.....we are just six months in. What kind of administration appointments will be talking about next summer? Better pray the Menendez brothers don't get pardoned....otherwise the FBI is going to have two more deputy directors.
I understand why they're insulted! Lots of people swallowing their pride around this administration - Monday's Zelensky group just one of them. If this guy is so qualified maybe they'd be kind enough to post his experience. I for one would love to see it!
This is truly a beautiful government building. Thank you for the photos. And thank you for the photo of the protest in Kuala Lumpur---it does my heart good to see people on my side all over the world. As to Nick Adams. The man doth protest too much. Someone who commands authority and respect doesn't need to declare "I am an alpha male. I eat rare steaks. I visit Hooters frequently." What Nick is doing is the equivalent of donning his giant wooden penis and parading around the Oval Office. Poor Mr. Adams. Guess he wasn't weaned properly.
Starting with Nick Adams and ending with Frank Lloyd Wright exemplifies going from the ridiculous to the sublime. ;-)
If it ever was in doubt, it is more important to know how, when and where to kiss the Felon's rear cheeks than to know how to find your own with two hands...or the location of your potential posting by pointing to it on a map, because those hands are glued to the upper protrusions of your waitress.
Any work of art that can garner the descriptor "groovy" is a good reason to smile. Much appreciated.
Let us seriously nominate the unserious and least qualified to hold posts which require the consent of the US Senate under their "advise and consent" responsibility. That way, we will know that the "advise" is gone and the "consent" is mere obsequiousness. That way, we know we have won. Trump has won. The rest of the populace are mere thralls in the trance of serfdom.
I got it! I know why the Felon nominates clearly unqualified people. He wants to have people around him who are dumber and less qualified for the job than, and at least as insecure as, he is.
An ambassador isn't even around him. I think he just picks people that he's heard of (maybe from his sons) who are "real men" talking about "real men" things. And he picks the females based on how they look and/or kiss up to him.
Trump has his own version of DEI in hiring. Intelligent people should sue him on the basis of discrimination.
Looking at Trump's appointments to date, Adams should surprise no one.
He sounds like a pig. Typical Trump nominee.