tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5319746396650314040..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Tony Stark's favorite architect: John LautnerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74918362895006965252013-05-10T14:34:10.449-07:002013-05-10T14:34:10.449-07:00Dear JPF:
Thanks. It's a real interesting que...Dear JPF:<br /><br />Thanks. It's a real interesting question. Americans had the cars first to go car cruising in, but the Mexicans sure took to it. The great American movie about teens car cruising is George Lucas's American Graffiti set in 1962 in his hometown of Modesto. Most of the kids cruising in the movie are white, of course, but the Mexicans in their lowriders in the movie are particularly intense about cruising.<br /><br />In short, American kids cruised in cars, but not in an organized fashion on foot. Mexican-Americans cruised in cars, while Mexicans in Mexico cruised on foot in formal paseos.<br />Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-608226318135109142013-05-10T14:28:25.970-07:002013-05-10T14:28:25.970-07:00Steve Sailer said: My impression from the 1970s wa...Steve Sailer said: My impression from the 1970s was that Cruising Van Nuys Blvd. on Wednesday night was basically a Mexican thing that white kids did too. It derived from the evening paseo in Mexican village squares, where the boys walk in a circle in one direction and the girls walked in the other.<br /><br />Just my off the cuff opinion, but I'm not so sure that the practice of cruising for girls is a mid-century take on the paseo. My middle class Jewish grandfather used to go cruising in the 1940's and I don't think that he got the idea from Zoot suiters. Maybe 60's/70's Chicano cruising was hold out from earlier days, much like their continuation of greaser culture and fondness for 50's music. <br /><br />-The Judean People's FrontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39997946284846114702013-05-10T14:17:40.638-07:002013-05-10T14:17:40.638-07:00Svigor said: Yeah, I had a similar experience at E...Svigor said: Yeah, I had a similar experience at Exile, except I stopped reading them when I noticed their "transgressive" thing never amounted to "transgressing" against 6 out of the 7 oligarchs, but to defending them. Or at least, their tribe.<br /><br />I'm not sure that the Exile was exactly friendly to the tribe or the oligarchs. While it isn't an anti-semitic site, articles frequently made disparaging comments about various Jewish physical and behavioral characteristic. The exile team also pretty mercilessly mocked the oligarchs if I can recall. The exile writers are certainly not anti-semitic WNs but they aren't exactly Philosemites either. <br /><br />-The Judean People's FrontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76823779359205612842013-05-10T08:33:52.265-07:002013-05-10T08:33:52.265-07:00Yeah, I had a similar experience at Exile, except ...Yeah, I had a similar experience at Exile, except I stopped reading them when I noticed their "transgressive" thing never amounted to "transgressing" against 6 out of the 7 oligarchs, but to defending them. Or at least, their tribe.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79335208610379926572013-05-10T00:53:48.711-07:002013-05-10T00:53:48.711-07:00Svigor said: Beigist, eh? You an exile.ru reader, ... Svigor said: Beigist, eh? You an exile.ru reader, or has that term jumped their fence?<br /><br />I used to read Exile. Despite the site's overtly lefty politics, the aesthetic was of the right. Ames' and Dolan's feverish, inventive hostility towards the beigists really struck a cord with me way back when. If I recall there was a Celine influence in there somewhere that might explain the exile's appeal to the alt-right crowd. Aesthetically, Edward Limonov was always a bit of an rightist too, even in his early eighties radical chic days as a New York hipster. At least to me, the exile team's articulate nihilism was a refreshing change from the secularized Ned Flanders world of the prosperous 90's. Ultimately though, I tired of their toxic, spoiled "transgressive" 90's rerun.<br /><br />-The Judean People's frontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5513141284799953772013-05-09T18:37:06.171-07:002013-05-09T18:37:06.171-07:00Definitely. Prosperity was the big thing.
My impr...Definitely. Prosperity was the big thing.<br /><br />My impression from the 1970s was that Cruising Van Nuys Blvd. on Wednesday night was basically a Mexican thing that white kids did too. It derived from the evening paseo in Mexican village squares, where the boys walk in a circle in one direction and the girls walked in the other.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41117803998063967122013-05-09T18:32:09.627-07:002013-05-09T18:32:09.627-07:00Hey, Steve, was the "Chicano" Low Rider ...Hey, Steve, was the "Chicano" Low Rider Mexican-American culture in SoCal tied in to or influenced by this Googie car culture of the 60's? If so, you're the perfect guy to explain the link.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34253811201493122472013-05-09T16:58:08.282-07:002013-05-09T16:58:08.282-07:00All fantastic words. The beigist range of expressi...<i>All fantastic words. The beigist range of expression is pretty pathetic when compared to the shimmering, surgical invective of our grandfathers' day.</i><br /><br />Beigist, eh? You an exile.ru reader, or has that term jumped their fence?<br /><br />Yeah, the "archaic" label is almost a guarantee that you're looking at a cool word. Mustifee, sambo, quadroon, octoroon, etc., jump immediately to mind.<br /><br />I really should try and dig deeper, more often. "Reprobate" led to some good alternatives at <a href="http://reprobate.askdefine.com/" rel="nofollow">AskDefine</a>. Movie dialogue from snobby/high-caste villains is a good place to pick up these starting points. E.g., I got "reprobate" from <a href="disney.wikia.com/wiki/Judge_Doom" rel="nofollow">Judge Doom</a>.<br /><br />Blackguard, cur, knave, lowlife, miscreant, pervert, rapscallion, recidivist, rogue, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, wastrel, wretch - all pretty good (especially "wretch," hehe). "Lowlife" seems the most utilitarian (much better than "scumbag"), but didn't have a page. But "<a href="http://degenerate.askdefine.com/" rel="nofollow">degenerate</a>" delivered quite a vein.<br /><br />If I had to guess, the left's ultimate goal is probably to render most of such words obsolete, archaic, or obscure, in favor of words with that carry specific opprobriums, which they approve; racist, sexist, misogynist, dinosaur, reactionary, homophobe, etc.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19006025698711127072013-05-09T15:46:34.162-07:002013-05-09T15:46:34.162-07:00Svigor said: Sheeit, don't get me started. We ...Svigor said: Sheeit, don't get me started. We need to rehabilitate so many epithets. Paltroon, degenerate, cosmopolitan, alien, parasite, etc. I mean, I actually sat there for a few seconds trying to find a better word than "scumbag" and couldn't think of one.<br /><br />All fantastic words. The beigist range of expression is pretty pathetic when compared to the shimmering, surgical invective of our grandfathers' day.<br /><br />-The Judean People's FrontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60096764854338477652013-05-09T06:25:38.244-07:002013-05-09T06:25:38.244-07:00People don't get called "base" very ...<i>People don't get called "base" very often these days, but it isn't for lack of deserving targets. The term needs to come out of retirement.<br /><br />-The Judean People's Front</i><br /><br />Sheeit, don't get me started. We need to rehabilitate so many epithets. Paltroon, degenerate, cosmopolitan, alien, parasite, etc. I mean, I actually sat there for a few seconds trying to find a better word than "scumbag" and couldn't think of one.<br /><br /><i>I'm convinced the first person to invent time travel will be a conservative.</i><br /><br />True, but then there's the monumental exception of the baby boomers, who have been trying to drag us back to the sixties since the seventies.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77777699750886926812013-05-08T20:19:48.776-07:002013-05-08T20:19:48.776-07:00The Chemosphere is the house that actor Troy Mcclu...The Chemosphere is the house that actor Troy Mcclure took his bride Selma to after their wedding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19175937643667693222013-05-08T15:58:37.171-07:002013-05-08T15:58:37.171-07:00Svigor said: Alan Moore is a scumbag and base cowa... Svigor said: Alan Moore is a scumbag and base coward.<br /><br />People don't get called "base" very often these days, but it isn't for lack of deserving targets. The term needs to come out of retirement.<br /><br />-The Judean People's FrontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49717386314114151512013-05-08T15:51:02.000-07:002013-05-08T15:51:02.000-07:00JeremiahJohnbalaya said: "any iSteve readers ... JeremiahJohnbalaya said: "any iSteve readers who live in SoCal are missing out if they haven't hiked up Point Dume when the flowers are in bloom. "<br /><br />And this is when, roughly?<br /><br />I went in mid March this year. Things could be dead and dry by now, but it's worth a look if you're in the area. You could always just spend the rest of your outing at adjacent Zuma beach if Point Dume disappoints. <br /><br />-The Judean People's Front<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22649969701870818202013-05-08T14:44:18.662-07:002013-05-08T14:44:18.662-07:00any iSteve readers who live in SoCal are missing o...<i>any iSteve readers who live in SoCal are missing out if they haven't hiked up Point Dume when the flowers are in bloom.</i> <br /><br />And this is when, roughly?JeremiahJohnbalayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88795283069019003942013-05-08T10:57:51.468-07:002013-05-08T10:57:51.468-07:00I should have been born earlier.
I'm convince...<i>I should have been born earlier.</i><br /><br />I'm convinced the first person to invent time travel will be a conservative.Funnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42048758821823631962013-05-08T10:29:45.858-07:002013-05-08T10:29:45.858-07:00The older I get, the less my liking for FLW and hi...The older I get, the less my liking for FLW and his school. Nothing says dignity like a good Colonial.<br /><br />All that glass! The point of dwellings used to be to get out of the rain and sun, to remove oneself from the vicissitudes of nature red in tooth & claw. Not to feel as though you're living on the savanna or in a creek.<br /><br />The shapelessness of the open floor plan was but a step on the road to Geary-ville.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47243974716128790322013-05-08T10:17:13.567-07:002013-05-08T10:17:13.567-07:00The mixing of ancient and modern was done much mor...The mixing of ancient and modern was done much more engagingly from roughly 1900 through the early '30s, with all the revivals of Greek / Egyptian / Babylonian / Mayan / Aztec / Etc. styles, that were incorporated into skyscrapers, picture palaces, and so on.<br /><br />The faces and poses shown are not like Tiki statues or kabuki masks, so they don't make you laugh right away. They seem more mysterious, and excite your curiosity. Their presence feels more palpable than the Tiki kind of statues, which feel as remote and safely quarantined in the past/far-off space as possible.<br /><br />The effect is not one of camp and naive optimism about having moved beyond our savage origins, but an exciting and slightly unsettling awareness that the primitive still lives on within modern urban society.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43869844648735855842013-05-08T10:09:20.442-07:002013-05-08T10:09:20.442-07:00The fascination with Tiki culture was a mid-centur...The fascination with Tiki culture was a mid-century thing, not just a post-war thing. The first Polynesian-themed bar/restaurant that kicked it off was Don the Beachcomber, which opened in Hollywood in 1934. In 1937, Trader Vic's began its Polynesian theme and quickly captivated the public.<br /><br />Something about mid-century culture wanted Polynesian themes regardless of WWII experience in the South Pacific, and likely would have been just as popular if American soldiers had never gone there.<br /><br />There seem to be two different types of exoticism -- the exotic as escape, and the exotic as thrill, for lack of better terms. In more sedate periods in the culture, the escapist mode predominates -- the gentle breeze cooling you off as you sip mai tais on the beaches of Hawaii, slow-moving Polynesian babes dancing the hula, fanning you with palm leaves, etc.<br /><br />The Tiki masks and statues look too grotesque to trigger your threat response. They're like kabuki masks, easy to laugh at and ignore as dangerous because they're so obviously exaggerated, not real-looking. Like, when did any predator -- human or animal -- ever make that face at its prey?<br /><br />The wacky-zany appeal of Tiki went along with the broader trend toward camp and kitsch during the mid-century. A drive-in restaurant shaped like a giant duck -- why not?agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1708426486299576022013-05-08T09:44:42.962-07:002013-05-08T09:44:42.962-07:00The Chemosphere... that reminds me that I haven...The Chemosphere... that reminds me that I haven't watched Body Double in awhile. Definitely didn't have that naive optimistic feel to by 1984. There's that new wave music video playing in the background for emphasis, whose refrain goes "The house is burning but there's no one home."agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48433612819536050532013-05-08T08:24:01.632-07:002013-05-08T08:24:01.632-07:00Well, Alan Moore clearly does, as evidenced by his...<i>Well, Alan Moore clearly does, as evidenced by his vicious portrayal of the character (called Tom Swyfte, for legal purposes)in his recent NEMO: HEART OF ICE. Moore seems to have found in Swift (or Swyfte) the ideal figure for expressing his technophobic impulses.</i><br /><br />Alan Moore is a scumbag and base coward. A vicious portrayal from him is high praise.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5555115522540210522013-05-08T08:10:22.028-07:002013-05-08T08:10:22.028-07:00hipschhipschAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27584543315623429412013-05-08T06:12:47.603-07:002013-05-08T06:12:47.603-07:00To tie some of the themes together even more close...To tie some of the themes together even more closely...<br /><br />In the Captain America movie, Tony Stark's father appears at the World Expo promoting a flying car. That car seems based on the real Moller International Skycar. The Skycar has been in the design and prototype stages for years. I don't know how the company stays afloat. I think it has something to do purely with their awesome-looking design...<br />http://moller.com/dev/index.php/sky-car/m400-specsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4153912307566418222013-05-08T06:08:36.132-07:002013-05-08T06:08:36.132-07:00Anonymous:"Does anybody read the Tom Swift bo...Anonymous:"Does anybody read the Tom Swift books any more?"<br /><br />Well, Alan Moore clearly does, as evidenced by his vicious portrayal of the character (called Tom Swyfte, for legal purposes)in his recent NEMO: HEART OF ICE. Moore seems to have found in Swift (or Swyfte) the ideal figure for expressing his technophobic impulses.<br /><br />syonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53952565965713140402013-05-08T02:02:33.160-07:002013-05-08T02:02:33.160-07:00
Since 1965 our nation has suffered arrested devel...<br />Since 1965 our nation has suffered arrested development. Gee, I wonder why?Auntie Analoguenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46193547553997617542013-05-07T23:58:04.193-07:002013-05-07T23:58:04.193-07:00The feel for this time in relation to now the the ...The feel for this time in relation to now the the past view of the future is captured quite well by Todd Lundgren.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZRYzZsOOsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com