And now for something light and entertaining, let’s forget all that other political stuff out there and get ready to chuckle. Last month I wrote a Top Comments diary featuring the work of James Lileks and his very entertaining website. Last month is was how he made fun of mid-twentieth century food. This month, we’ll look at his observations regarding 1970s interior decoration. Above is a sample. More are on the other side of the tasteful invisible orange Scandinavian modern pouf.
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This one is quite timely, but I disagree with Lileks’ judgement; Trump is all about 18th-19th Century excess.
Lileks:
Those odd wired seats are pure 70s - people squeezed their big American butts into those things and grinned in pain throughout the meal, knowing their flesh was going to look as if they’d slept on an egg slicer. The table was stolen from the set of Star Trek; the glasses have the bottom flarepopular in the mid 70s; the walls are sheathed, God help us, with shiny gold foil wallpaper, and the light fixture looks like someone glued 125 Anchor Hocking Highball glasses to ceiling. In Donald Trump’s most innermost soul, this is where he dines. This is where he first thought: wow. This is classy. And I’m here. So I must be classy myself.
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Lileks:
Three approaches to the same room. The lesson seems to be: color can make a difference! Why, one might even say that different colors make different differences!
Here's a nice yellowy yellow scheme, with a dominant note of yellow offsetting the other yellows, and bringing out the deep yellows.
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Lileks:
Paging Dame Fashion in the Green Room! You'll love this hideous mess, from the wicker chairs that jab you in ass with small wicker-spears, to the lattice molding you spent an entire weekend applying, only to ask yourself: who's going to dust this? You, that's who. Forever.
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Lileks:
Finally, it's Hell's Own Whorehouse! Why not cover the ceiling with fabric that looks like something Satan threw up? ? Why not? Why not paint the walls black and floor a shiny black? Why not? Why not splash blood-red paint everywhere? Why not just invert all the crosses in the house and start sacrificing pigs to Moolzebech NOW?
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Lileks:
“Gigantic patterned wallpaper in a small area is exciting because it breaks all the rules.” Well, a flaming pile of pig crap in the foyer breaks all the rules. Smearing goat-brains on the walls breaks all the rules.
“You can be adventurous in little-used areas.” You mean little-used areas like the front door? What, did people enter through the chimney and leave through the coal chute?
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That’s about all I can include without violating fair use (I hope). For more of this, go visit lileks.com.
Somehow I managed to arrange an area meet-up (Chrislove is in town!) on a day I had signed up to host Top Comments. Fortunately, BeninSC has volunteered to edit the comments. Thank you BeninSC! I’ll be in late, I expect. Behave yourselves.
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