how I spent my afternoon (I love abandoned insane asylums)

[lapsedmodernist]

Oh, I wish you all could have seen the wall of moss, and the frayed curtains filtering the dusty sunlight, the creaking stairs, and the raindrops from the ceilings, and the trapped wind responding to the unnatural geometry of rooms and corridors with howls and grunt.

Pictures soon.

But now hot tea and to watch more "Mad Men."

Comments

Mad Men

[wolodymyr.livejournal.com]

I would love to hear what you think about it.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

My partner in crime and I were checking out a pretty sweet burnt out Victorian church in the middle of some 1980s housing estates in Docklands last week, and I totally thought of you.

[screenedout.livejournal.com]

Now there's a teaser.

The real madmen were never the ones in the mad places, so the story goes.

[lady3jane.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see photos. It sounds spectacular!

[exterra.livejournal.com]

How do you find these places?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

wish I'd been there!

Also it looks like I will be giving a paper at a conference in July in London; are you gonna be around?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

they were on Madison Ave!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

oh, K. It was.

Are you guys coming to the Netherlands this year?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

word of mouth from other people who enjoy the same activities, research...in the US sometimes just driving around in places where industries went bust, but I haven't done that here because I don't really know where to look so generally yet, and also because I am still mastering the stickshift.

Re: Mad Men

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I have been in a purely consumptive and pre-analytical mode so far I think, but actually reading your thoughts on movies always inspires me to analysis.

so far I think it's verite of the symbolic universe of that era that we didn't even know we had, but that we recognize immediately.

[revolution-grrl.livejournal.com]

Was it really an insane asylum? That adds a certain something, doesn't it?!