I remember this episode. Kirk is somehow swapped with his doppelganger from a parallel universe during beaming. Alt. Kirk is essentially the anti-Kirk. The Spocks figure it out, and figure out how to trigger the process again so that each Kirk can return to his own universe. I won’t divulge the rest of the plot in case anyone is unfamiliar with it. But to me it’s one of the better episodes. I love Spock’s line to Kirk upon his return, that “As a civilized man, it was easier for you to pass as a savage than it was for him as a savage to pass as a civilized man.” Words of wisdom, Lloyd, words of wisdom.
” I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”–Jack Torrence
Fluffy appears to have suffered a very traumatic experience, and to be lucky to have survived, doubtless due to some heroic action by this firefighter.
I found this used to illustrate several architectural sites as an example of minimalist design.
A little too minimalist, to my eyes, in a lot of ways.
Yet in other ways the opposite of what I’d call minimal, being a vast cavern, a huge expanse of nothingness you have to traverse to get to where you’re going, with many extra steps and few markers to guide you.
I guess it depends on whether minimalist is supposed to represent emptiness or efficiency.
….
It seemed to be listed here and there as being different buildings in different countries, with little description…
But the most believable, because it was an article about one place, not a collection of designs, was, I think, that it’s
the Contemporary Visual Culture Center, in San Sebastián, Spain.
But it was loaded with architectural gobbledygook…
Couple of brief excerpts, just for flavor:
“empty space treated as a street-theater, open to the outside and a sequence of planes and stairs to the rest of the building, whose mission is not only functional organization but, ultimately, to represent the culture of the visual”.
“The perception of this new upper volume has been considered from both the pedestrian and higher levels, since it deals with a surface treated as a canvas whose manifestation directly refers to industrial images.”
We had a used, bare bones, reddish brown 1963 Pontiac Tempest, kind of the lower power, V6 base model for the GTO.
None of that fancy chrome, way less engine… None of the design or power add-ons.
It had survived a bad crash, and was revived with mismatched doors and one slightly lighter colored fender panel.
Sold to us for $200 by a teenage boy, good friend of my husband’s youngest brother, who bought it 2nd or 3rd hand, and also survived the crash but was spooked by driving it.
…
But I’ll tell you what… That car had heart.
It loved to go fast, and carried loads meant for a pick up truck, taking us 70 miles each way to sell at a flea market, with nary a complaint.
It had just over 40,000 miles on it when we got it… A lot more for a 60s car than a later one, and we put on another 40 or so a year for a couple of years.
It was battered and bashed but reliable.
Then it got stolen!
….
I think I’ve told about this before, sorry….
But a few years later, I was riding my bike on the other side of town from where I lived, long before cell phones and digital cameras… And that car drove past me.
I could always recognize the 4 colors of the doors and the fender… It still had the dented roof from carrying cargo on top.
The engine was still quiet.
I should have been upset but I was just happy it lived!
I can’t fins anything on a ’61 GTO. All the sources I looked at said ’64 was the first year. I was looking to see if that was the Pontiac, Michigan plant. I’ve been in several GM plants around the country, but mostly in Michigan (including in Pontiac). Of course it was decades after this picture was taken so no GTOs and lots more automation.
Coincidentally, I just finished reading “Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” about two weeks ago.
Hyde is anything but a comic character; but hey, this is a cartoon and why not?
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I love that blue!
There’s something about pinstripes…
Yeah, we’re funky-looking and clearly descended from dinosaurs. You want to make something of it?
Funky looking??
This is a look of cool sophistication!
These are Vulturine Guineafowl.
Costumed by Bob Mackie, for their big number.
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If you knew Sulu like I know Sulu…
I remember this episode. Kirk is somehow swapped with his doppelganger from a parallel universe during beaming. Alt. Kirk is essentially the anti-Kirk. The Spocks figure it out, and figure out how to trigger the process again so that each Kirk can return to his own universe. I won’t divulge the rest of the plot in case anyone is unfamiliar with it. But to me it’s one of the better episodes. I love Spock’s line to Kirk upon his return, that “As a civilized man, it was easier for you to pass as a savage than it was for him as a savage to pass as a civilized man.” Words of wisdom, Lloyd, words of wisdom.
” I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”–Jack Torrence
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Took me a while to see the victim!
Fluffy appears to have suffered a very traumatic experience, and to be lucky to have survived, doubtless due to some heroic action by this firefighter.
Edward Hopper
What is it’s name?
Dayhawks?
New York Office —1962
sorry, I was too lazy last night to research the name
Hiroshima
I don’t know which picture is more striking.
So are those islands in the stream all built on fill?
dunno
Google Earth goes back to 1985, and the islands are there at that time.
Yes… I was thinking more like something done in the postwar rebuilding period.
A lot of stuff was constructed on fill in California in the 1950s and 60s, but would have been illegal by 85.
And the tall buildings in this picture look more established than that.
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I do not think I would be able to relax.
Air Cavalry
,,.,
Somebody run out and buy a can of paint — any color!
Including white?
But white isn’t a color. Nyaaah!
Bit sterile, I’d say.
Is that Woody Allen in the foreground? Perhaps a scene from Sleeper?
I found this used to illustrate several architectural sites as an example of minimalist design.
A little too minimalist, to my eyes, in a lot of ways.
Yet in other ways the opposite of what I’d call minimal, being a vast cavern, a huge expanse of nothingness you have to traverse to get to where you’re going, with many extra steps and few markers to guide you.
I guess it depends on whether minimalist is supposed to represent emptiness or efficiency.
….
It seemed to be listed here and there as being different buildings in different countries, with little description…
But the most believable, because it was an article about one place, not a collection of designs, was, I think, that it’s
the Contemporary Visual Culture Center, in San Sebastián, Spain.
But it was loaded with architectural gobbledygook…
Couple of brief excerpts, just for flavor:
“empty space treated as a street-theater, open to the outside and a sequence of planes and stairs to the rest of the building, whose mission is not only functional organization but, ultimately, to represent the culture of the visual”.
“The perception of this new upper volume has been considered from both the pedestrian and higher levels, since it deals with a surface treated as a canvas whose manifestation directly refers to industrial images.”
Too bad the description wasn’t more minimalist.
Spain, the country that brought us Gaudi.
My favorite.
In this condition, these ’61 Pontiac GTOs today would be worth millions
I’d be happy to have one.
We had a used, bare bones, reddish brown 1963 Pontiac Tempest, kind of the lower power, V6 base model for the GTO.
None of that fancy chrome, way less engine… None of the design or power add-ons.
It had survived a bad crash, and was revived with mismatched doors and one slightly lighter colored fender panel.
Sold to us for $200 by a teenage boy, good friend of my husband’s youngest brother, who bought it 2nd or 3rd hand, and also survived the crash but was spooked by driving it.
…
But I’ll tell you what… That car had heart.
It loved to go fast, and carried loads meant for a pick up truck, taking us 70 miles each way to sell at a flea market, with nary a complaint.
It had just over 40,000 miles on it when we got it… A lot more for a 60s car than a later one, and we put on another 40 or so a year for a couple of years.
It was battered and bashed but reliable.
Then it got stolen!
….
I think I’ve told about this before, sorry….
But a few years later, I was riding my bike on the other side of town from where I lived, long before cell phones and digital cameras… And that car drove past me.
I could always recognize the 4 colors of the doors and the fender… It still had the dented roof from carrying cargo on top.
The engine was still quiet.
I should have been upset but I was just happy it lived!
cool story!
I can’t fins anything on a ’61 GTO. All the sources I looked at said ’64 was the first year. I was looking to see if that was the Pontiac, Michigan plant. I’ve been in several GM plants around the country, but mostly in Michigan (including in Pontiac). Of course it was decades after this picture was taken so no GTOs and lots more automation.
I did, but not in 15 seconds, and now without blowing it up.
oo gad! cupcake icing everywhere
What does a “moon in 15 seconds” look like?
a cloudy night
Sure. All I have to do is step outside.
Never mind these things saying how meny seconds to take…. It’s just to build interest, get comments, sort of the click bait of puzzle pages.
They used to say 3 minutes but not enough people complained and stuck around to argue.
Anyway……
It’s not the sort of moon I thought I was looking for at first but it makes perfect sense.
The only thing I know for sure is you would have to travel to MARAMIS, TURKEY to see it in real life.
LOCATION
whatever you do, don’t try this at home
Must be diet coke.
Ohhh! I think I busted myself!
Where else am I gonna try it? On the Freeway at rush hour?
that might be safer
I’ll bet their great, great, great,… grandkids are Imperial Stormtroopers.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
Coincidentally, I just finished reading “Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” about two weeks ago.
Hyde is anything but a comic character; but hey, this is a cartoon and why not?
The Avengers, John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg).
A very big thumbs up!
Ahhh, another of my boyhood crushes.
I’m not used to thinking of Mrs. Peel as so young and innocent looking.
She always seemed sophisticated and fashionable.
Of course, I was even younger, so maybe what looked sophisticated to me then looks innocent now.
Maria living up to her last name…
¡Cleomigos! ¡Cleomigas!
Perro™ rides! And with a passenger!
The plot not only thickens… it starts to boil over and solidify!
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A daring escape.. bullets flying everywhere…
Everywhere except where they’re supposed to go… (well, according to those as shot’em)…
…luckily, of course, for Perro™ and the lovely Señorita Voluptuosa!
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That guard who saw them did not turn out to be a friend… or a great marksman.
He and his fellow guards seemed to have trained at the Academia Militar de Payasos… i.e. the Clown Military Academy.
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The lovely Señorita saved room for Perro™.
A good call…. it might sound romantic, but it could be cos otherwise he’d have landed right on top of her.
Now run, Toronado! Gallop like the wind!