I don't know if this is for real or not. And I don't care.

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Get Carpark!

News comes of the imminent destruction of the multi-story parking garage (and Get Carter film location) at the Trinity Gateshead Centre.

The car park was designed in 1962, when Brutalism was regarded as the cutting edge of architecture, but by the time that it opened in 1969, interest in the movement had begun to decline. The building's raw concrete weathered poorly, and by the time Get Carter was filmed the following year, the car park had already become an emblem for decline.

Here is a page dedicated to documenting the process.

Finally, I decided to see if I could find the thing on Flashearth, but got a bit muddled. From all the different things I could find, I've managed to narrow the garage down to two places, shown here:



If I am understanding what I have found correctly, the site indicated by the lower circle is the garage. The upper circle indicates the structure that looks right to me.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

In the last few months, we've been startled to discover that our mail has been arriving sometime in the middle of the night. A couple of times I have checked it at nine or ten in the evening, confirmed that it was empty and then found mail in it the next morning. We have three explanations for this.

1. We are sometimes the very first delivery on the mail route, and thus our mail is delivered at roughly 5 in the morning.
   
2. Our mail is being delivered to the wrong house and someone is putting it right in the middle of the night or early morning.
3. Our Mail Carrier is a Vampire!

A little slice of Bootleg Heaven

Madness live in New Jersey, 1983. It's like the internet is calling me home.

My head hurts

Of all the bands that played this year's SXSW Fest, 763 offered mp3s for review. Paul Ford has listened to every single one, and gives them all a six word review.

Enjoy a few:

"I’m a sucker for thumb-piano."

"Open wide for this, NPR listener!"

"Their poor singer has a cold."

"Like a Simpsons parody of rap."

"Drums. Guitar. More guitar. Vocals. Guitar."

"Swedish metal, so thus utterly hilarious."

A reading life

One of the things that I keep on meaning to blog more about is books. My problem is that as I now tend to read for no other reason than my own enjoyment, I have gotten into two habits.

1. If I don't enjoy a book, I stop reading it before I am done with it. Then I forget about it.
   
2. If I do enjoy a book, I finish it and then go on to the next book without bothering to make any thought about why I enjoyed it. Then I forget about it.

To help me get my book-thinking mojo back I signed into LibraryThing. This has done two things for me already.

First, it's allowed me to get a "currently reading" widget back up onto the sidebar. I see that it is currently already out of date.

The second thing is that it is providing me with an amusing look at the statistics involved with the few books that I've logged into it so far. Among the strange things that LibraryThing can do is offer you an "Author Gallery," or a nicely packed wall of thumbnail pictures of every author in your library (provided you entered the book in and LibraryThing can find a picture).

I have annotated my Author Gallery so you can see what I found so amusing about this:




Please know that I have many more books yet to add.

Spring is arriving

And with it comes the online home repair quote requests.

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