Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The List, part 2

  • Frederick Winslow Taylor
  • James Buchanan
  • Walter Gropius
  • Fred Silverman
  • All prop comedians
  • And, so that part 2 of the list is not a complete sausage-fest, Sarah Palin.

14 comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

You crank, Walter Gropius did better things than any prop comedian. Don't blame Marx for Stalin!

N__B said...

Gropius is not Marx in your analogy. He's Brezhnev, only without the animatronics.

Substance McGravitas said...

The thing about Gropius is that he did more than HELP DESTROY ARCHITECTURE - and the buildings he made don't look all that bad to me - and I have a soft spot for what I still insist is the Pan-Am Building - but he managed to run a school that produced a lot of good work and employed a lot of good people. Plus: ALMA!

N__B said...

Re the list criteria: warmer.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I always kind of liked Bela Lugosi's Dead.

Smut Clyde said...

There's a beautifully vicious passage in Elias Canetti's memoirs about Alma which I cannot be arsed looking up right now on account of fear of derailing the thread.

Substance McGravitas said...

Tom Wolfe - ON THE LIST!

N__B said...

Tom Wolfe - ON THE LIST!

I debated adding him. He meets my criterion #1 perfectly, but I'm unsure as to whether he meets #2. He probably does, but if I get the list entries wrong...the consequences...the living will envy the dead.

N__B said...

fear of derailing the thread.

Have no fear. I don't care.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

not a complete sausage-fest, Sarah Pailn.

Sarah Pailn? who is Sarah Pailn?

N__B said...

I have no idea what you're talking about.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

yeah, I do that too. Ihope your weekend is filled with Rush.

James R MacLean said...

Which James Buchanan? The president (1857-1861) or the Nobel laureate (and inventor of public choice theory)?

Both pernicious people, but I think James M. Buchanan is a profoundly repulsive person.

N__B said...

The president. He greatly contributed to the clusterfuck that was the beginning of the Civil War.