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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
KINDA HARD TO MISS.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Yep, that's Minneapolis' very own Mary Tyler Moore statue. Dear rest of the world...you're welcome.
― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
The guy on the horse in the first post is none other than Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, Confederate general who later founded the KKK. It's a fitting statue for him.
Hey P. Plains, Vulcan is alive and well in Birmingham.
-- Django Blowhardt (crump...), November 14th, 2006 9:04 AM. (Rock Hardy) (later) (link)
Uh-uh. If I ever make it back, chances are he'll just hop down and hide from me again.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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Not as ugly as the Mary Tyler Moore statue, but I alwas thought it looks like he's being stretched out on the rack (and really loving it).
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I agree with Anthony that the minimalist sculpture is just depressing as fuck, it makes Rothko seem all Hallmarky in comparison.
― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
?!?!?! It's not gone! I just visited it two months ago! I have pictures of Vulcan's gigantic ass!
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link
My favorite Vulcan story is the torch which shone red when a FATAL traffic accident occurred, but that it had to be taken DOWN because it was red all the TIME and disturbing people!
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Good butt-shot at Vulcan's Butt blog.
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Of course, on the way down, it looked like the rain was going up.
There's a television station up there on that mountain that had a security guard who got mad at me while I was driving around, looking for an invisible statue.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
If he was a war martyr, why on earth portray him playing football instead of something more, you know, dignified?
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Call me stupid, but I think this might have something to do with it.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Tuomas, FFS, this thread is called "uglier than the Pat Tillmans statue", don't you think everyone on here has already asked themselves those questions?
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Mercury News says:
Modeled after one of the better-known photos of Tillman, the statue features him in mid-stride, long hair flowing, helmet in one hand and mouthpiece in the other, and with his mouth open as if he's roaring. The sculpture's backdrop is a curved wall of black concrete that gives the memorial both an understated and reverential quality.
``I'm really pleased they decided to portray him that way,'' said Jim Kaskie, a Mesa man who also wore Tillman's No. 40 jersey. ``That's the way I'll always remember Pat.''
So, they made the statue so that people would recognise it. SEEMS KIND OF SENSIBLE.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Tuomas (lixnix...), November 15th, 2006.
Here, I think, is the boundary of your understanding of American culture.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link