I'm already liking the KC Gazette blog . . . Snobby and self-assured and bombastic. Nice.
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The Athenian Pantheon? The Roman Parthenon? Someone needs to do his or her homework.
ReplyDeleteModernist architecture is "an affront to beauty?" Maybe beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
And "inter alias causas?" I guess there's nothing like an obscure Latin phrase to make inanity appear scholarly.
All architecture was "modernist" at one time.
And of course you can start a petition to have the building torn down, but just because you're stuck in the Middle Ages, don't expect anyone to pay much attention.
"Snobby and self-assured and bombastic?" Sure. Researched, well thought-out and relevant? Not so much.
People who build nothing and create nothing have no right to criticize those who do.
ReplyDeleteWhew! That blogger is SENSITIVE! I posted my disagreement, was told they'd used the "Athenian Pantheon" and the "Roman Parthenon" because of some screw-up with Word! Then they removed my comment!
ReplyDeleteAfter being told of the "Word" error, I suggested: 'I think it was a screw-up, but you want to correct "hundreds of year[s]" and "Nowhere can this war against beauty [be?] more manifest" while you're at it?'
You gotta watch that Word! It'll make you look like an idiot every time!
Anonymous: We only meant to delete the comment with the physical threat. As we wrote over at the post, the process of transcribing the copy from a bar napkin to Word to the Blog resulted in numerous, albeit careless, errors. JR, who has lived in Athens and Rome, knows the difference between the two. Relax a little. This is only our second blog post. We're new at this.
ReplyDeleteWho in the world is the Kansas City Gazette, why is their opinion about anything of interest, and why would TKC post this on his blog.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right, the PAC is for rich white people and is therefore racist and a target of constant attack.
Losers always maon about the winners. It's so much easier than actually trying to accomplish something.
"Everything is amazing and nobody is happy"
ReplyDeleteanon 12:48: Your function is to express an opinion using written English...don't you think if you want us to take you seriously you could at least get that written English part of it right...Just asking? Cause right now you look like a team of 9th graders saying "Look at us...but don't look at us too closely."
ReplyDeleteModernist architecture is "an affront to beauty?
ReplyDeleteUm, did Ellsworth Toohey start a blog?
Dear J Randolph. Its bad enough youre dressed in your suit holding a fine glass of wine for your picture. But writing in the royal "WE"? That's over the top bud, even for the old Mission Hills crowd.
ReplyDeleteRandolph, you're right out of Eddie Murphy's "Trading Places!"
True, Radioman, and not very well schooled (probably took the gentleman's C) or they may know that the Gothic style they seem to worship got its name because Italians of the time found it vulgar, and named it after the Goths, a barbarians from the north of Europe, to denote the poor opinion the Italian people had of it.
ReplyDelete12:48: So why delete my non-threatening comment?
ReplyDeleteI am one of the Crossroads douche bags that you write about so often, Tony. I have loved watching this thing being built. It is going to be beautiful. Why do you publish so many of the pictures from your favorite local photog of this building if you think it's so ugly? You seem to contradict yourself.
ReplyDelete5:13: I'm not sure Tony has anything against the Kauffman Center--he just likes the (probably short-lived) blog, finding it "snobby and self-assured and bombastic" even if it's also immature, undereducated and written in bars on napkins by people who need alcohol to convince themselves that when they drink it makes everyone else stupid.
ReplyDeleteWow, and I thought T was the taint of Kansas City. Evidently, Randolph is.
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