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we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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[fromthedust]

John Margolies (American, 1940-2016)

John Samuel Margolies was an architectural critic, photographer, and author who was noted for celebrating vernacular and novelty architecture in the United States, particularly those designed as roadside attractions. For almost forty years, he documented the most remarkable examples he found, publishing some of his discoveries in books and consigning the rest to an archive, which has now been purchased by the Library of Congress who, in a wonderfully gracious move, have lifted all copyright restrictions on the photographs. (see link below)

Gatorland Zoo alligator statue - Route 1, St. Augustine, Florida - 1979

Deschwanden's Shoe Repair (The Big Shoe) - 10th & Chester, Bakersfield, California - 1977

Wigwam Village #2 - office teepee and several teepee cabins - Route 31W, Cave City, Kentucky - 1979

Wigwam Village #6 - Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona - 1979

Jantzen sign - Stamie's Beachwear - Ocean Avenue, Daytona Beach, Florida - 1990

7-Up Bottling Company (two views) - NE 14 & Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon - 1980

Coca Cola Bottling Company (two views) - 14th & Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California - 1977

Coca Cola Bottling Company (detail view of door) - 14th & Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California - 1977

It'll Do Motel (office) - Jonesborough, Tennessee - 1987

Joy Theater marquee - San Antonio, Texas - 1982

White Castle - Reading Road, Cincinnati, Ohio - 1980

Mammy's Cupboard (two views) - Route 61, Natchez, Mississippi - 1979

Dependable Used Cars sign - Division Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan - 1982

Stan The Tire Man statue - Broadway, Mount Vernon, Illinois - 1988

Bomber gas station - Route 99 E., Milwaukie, Oregon - 1980

World's Largest Redwood Tree Service Station (1936) - Route 101, Ukiah, California - 1991

Peach water tower - Frontage Road, Gaffney, South Carolina - 1988

Christie's Restaurant sign (cowboy shrimp) - Houston, Texas - 1983

Roadside flamingo statue - Frog City, Route 41, Florida - 1980

www.publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america/

addendum: seen (not photographed) in a 2007 trip to Garibaldi/Nehalem/Manzanita Oregon — The Wheeler Inn with a wheelbarrow on the roof with a clothed female mannequin loaded into it . . .

[weshney]

Okay, Guys, So I was recently in Texas on a family vacation and a puppy ran in front of our car late at night. We did not hit him, but it definitely made us notice he was there!

He was covered in mange and straight up not doing well, so we scooped him up and stayed up all night taking care of him. Apart from keeping him inside our makeshift fenced yard, we fed him, gave him a dawn dish soap bath, and slathered him in half a jar of coconut oil to take care of his 100+ fleas.

He never once tried to bite or hurt us during this process. Which is impressive considering that he whimpered every time he scratched his own skin.

Within the hour post-bath he went from reasonably skittish to begging for belly rubs, wagging his tail, and no longer trying to escape.

We were so happy, but also stressed. Because, as it turns out, most of the animal shelters in the area are high kill shelters. I'm talking, a dog is in threat of euthanasia within THREE DAYS of being accepted at the shelters.

All the websites everywhere direct you to the 311 animal control line. Which is the line for the high kill shelter. It was heavily implied, when we talked to them, that he would be killed right away if they took him.

We were disgusted. I nearly cried. We were ready to ditch our whole vacation and rent a car to drive him the 36 hours home and get him treated.

At the last minute, my brother did a Hail Mary post on Facebook.

And God's Dogs answered.

I'm not even shitting you.

The no-kill, highly rated rescue was called God's Dogs.

We saved him. He got treatment right away, both for mange and a tick borne disease, and THREE DAYS later was placed with a foster family.

The exact amount of time it would have taken the city sponsored shelter to kill him.

When we dropped him off, we saw the kennels. They were nice, and the dogs very healthy.

The owner is a nurse with a huge heart.

So what I'm really getting at, is that not only does this rescue majorly deserve donations for the work they do, but they will actually transport the dogs they save all over the US for just their normal $250 adoption fee. So even if you live out of state, you can still adopt from them!!!

They're currently trying to open a vet clinic on site to treat the dogs, give vaccinations and spay/neuter sooner and more cheaply. They're about halfway through their 100k dollar goal, but I bet Tumblr could really wipe that out of the water.

What do you say Guys?

Can we show them how much this work matters?

And if you live in the area, PLEASE consider adopting a dog from the City of San Antonio Animal Care Services.

Their name is quite the fucking misnomer.

They literally have 2 month old PUPPIES on their euthanasia list at the time I'm writing this post that could be killed as early as TOMORROW.

For a complete list of dogs set to be euthanized (most within the week of being obtained), refer to my other post.

[ancient-reverie]

im having to move back to texas (san antonio area specifically) for the indefinite future, any tips for surviving down there rn?

I don't frequently go to San Antonio, but like with any city it'll have it's ups and downs depending on where you are.

Honestly I just have general advice: remember to drink water, don't wear black if you're gonna be outside a long time, go to places you like to and make friends/find a group of people in your area you can get to know. Tip service workers and artists. Don't blast your AC really really cold, it gets expensive and you'll lose your acclimation to the heat which starts to wear on your body. 70°'s should be your lowest depending on how well it works and the size of your place.

Test your drugs for fentanyl. Don't share needles (stay away from needles in general) Don't drink and drive, you can always find your car later and get it out if it's towed. Better yet, start using public transport if you don't.

Start something new also. You're in a new place, do something different that'll get you out and about. Start graffiti writing if you don't already. Pick up a part time job as a dog walker. Make a list of cool shops you want to visit even if you don't buy anything. Go to the Aquarium, the Alamo, the Zoo, and of course the Riverwalk. I think Rainforest Cafe is still there lol

And check out the live music! Go to some shows! I'm mostly in San Antonio to see metal bands if we're being honest.

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