Comments on Mudede's Freestanding Pile of Trash Very Important Things

what does it smell like?

I want to read Charles doing an architectural review of that pile.

Tao Bungalows are always my fave.

you do realize that both your insurance company and the fire department might have to declare your offices a fire trap...and what with your deathtrap elevator and bum blocked fire doors, you're all doomed in case of a fire.

As intellectually sloppy as most of CM's arguments are, this should hardly come as a surprise.

That's actually a pretty nice pile of trash. It could be worse, you know.

I believe the freestanding pile of trash is the post-use culmination of the original monument to Capitalism, the Solid Gold Toilet®. "Freestanding" as in the trash is the only thing in a capitalist society that is ultimately "free", as both the bourgeoisie and labor are enslaved by the capitalist system and the only freedom comes after you have been cast off, and "standing" because the inhuman alienation of capital actually upends the natural state of trash, which would be to fall, to decline, flowing down into the earth from which all things come. The trash stands up as a kind of monument to waste. Digging into and tearing apart the capitalist systems freestanding mountains of trash provides the clearest insight into how the system operates and what it delivers, and fails to deliver. The inevitable collapse of the freestanding pile of trash under the weight of its own internal contradictions parallels the ultimate collapse of the system of global capital, which will likewise spread its component parts across the surrounding landscape, and from which will grow the future society that will replace it.

Thank you. Thankyouverymuch.

That was good, Elenchos.

Are you having a rummmage sale? Because I know I could find a few things in that pile I want; that copy of The Seattle Bungalow, for starters.

Hey -- all those books on that back shelf are library books, aren't they? What do Charles's fines look like?

This looks like my desk and bench at the lab. Terrifyingly so.

I think the piles on my desk are now structural elements of the building--a part of the seismic retrofitting.

And wouldn't that tub be postal service property?

Go to Value Village to pick up some goodies from the purge.

And it's EDITORIAL that's having the purge, not the whole office. :P

Fnarf @8, I'll thumb-wrestle you for it.

honestly, I figured that the zoom-in would reveal mountains of mid-80s porn.

This just makes me love Charles even more!

dudes, that bungalow book is mine. it's destined for the architectural section of my personal library, which i just paid a fortune to move to a new location.

What's your address, and what time are you going to be away from home?

Give it to a dead guy and bury it.

Wake me when they're throwing out copies of The Seattle MegaHouse

If Charles isn't careful, he'll be featured in "Library Police Beat"...

Fascinating, but how about instead of throwing it away you take it downstairs to the Value Village.

Never mind @21, didn't see the earlier post saying you were doing exactly that.

Is The Weekly giving away free papers while you're doing that ?
Oh wait.

@23 - no, ECB uses those to roll her "green" cigs.

Good to see some He'Brew there, the chosen beer.

The real question is, will it blend?

Beaten as a child, Charles?

; )

@7:
Nice. LOL

Oh, yeah, and:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/health/01well.html?emc=eta1

Come on Stranger! Return those mail bins!

http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-new-york/1031603-1.html

I do not understand your strange sense of humor. Please explain.

I'll tell you what is impressive and freestanding...an enormous penis!!!