Eyesore of the Month
September 2003
Don't you wonder why practically
every house built in America after World War Two is a design abortion?
The answer is actually simple but a little abstruse: ugliness is
entropy made visible.
When you live in a high entropy society,
as we do, the entropy manifests in many ways: toxic waste, poor
air quality, social alienation, epidemic obesity, odious popular
culture, AND immersive ugliness.
Everything that could have gone wrong
with this house did go wrong. Garage facing street, monkeyshit brown
and beige paint job, horrible window proportioning, screw-on shutters,
pitiful canopies, service cables and pipes visible, stunted fake
cupola, roof pitch sandwich on right, yard 50 percent asphalt and
filled with automobiles, chain-link fence. . . .
And let's not forget the eagle right
between the eyes. Perfect.
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