Slog - Comments on Let There Be Concrete http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete The worship of the absolute substance: The desire for the absolute substance:... Copyright 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:09:43 -0800 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:46:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Charles, here's your centerfold: http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/04/heavy-load-exerting-concrete-body-and.html

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109901 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109901 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:17:37 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster Charles,

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Thanks for the mammaries!

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109923 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109923 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:35:51 -0800 Comment by max solomon yes! i was wondering where the tasteful tatties were today, charles!

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109924 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:36:16 -0800 Comment by Natalie Merchant COMMENT DELETED: Off-Topic

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]]> Natalie Merchant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109926 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109926 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:42:26 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Sometimes Charles cracks me up.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109959 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109959 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:37:54 -0800 Comment by dbell Charles, have you written anything about why concrete represents the 'absolute substance?' We all know of your fascination with it as an architectural element and as a phenomenon in and of itself, and I can come up with some very good reasons why that would be so.

However, I'm interested to understand what's at the basis of that fascination. Especially considering that a lot of people conflate concrete as a building material with both fascism and Ayn Rand, oppressive and lacking in personality.

]]> dbell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109982 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:24:56 -0800 Comment by charles mudede @6, for one, concrete never stops getting harder. the older the concrete, the more difficult it is. roman concrete is nearly impossible.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109991 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109991 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:52 -0800 Comment by Wheee @7, in that case, my peener becomes the absolute substance while watching Olympic Women's gymnastics.

]]> Wheee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109998 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1109998 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:43:49 -0800 Comment by Whooo @8 - I believe Chucky (pardon the pun) beat you to that with his previous comment - though substituting Italian women for the Olympians, natch.

]]> Whooo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110034 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110034 Architecture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:14:25 -0800 Comment by Vince The Pantheon in Rome is the ultimate concrete structure. Not only has it lasted twenty-eight hundred years, it utilizes other materials such as clay pots mixed into it to lighten it. And it was built by who is arguably the most talented queer in history: Emperor Hadrian.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110111 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110111 Architecture Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:30:17 -0800 Comment by Sirkowski I didn't know him a minute ago, but after a quick Google, I'm in admiration of Norman Lindsay's work.

]]> Sirkowski http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110154 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110154 Architecture Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:05:07 -0800 Comment by Greg Concrete is indeed teh awesome.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110165 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110165 Architecture Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:19:19 -0800 Comment by A hard man is impossible to find Hugo Chavez, good Socialist that he is, feels the same way- he just nationalised all the concrete companies in Venezuela, because only the people should own the absolute substance, and if capitalists are allowed to get harder and harder, they too will become "impossible".

]]> A hard man is impossible to find http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110241 Architecture Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:39:49 -0800 Comment by Vince I meant eighteen hundred years. Sorry.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110592 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/let_there_be_concrete#c1110592 Architecture Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:46:28 -0800