Be Bullish/Mike Repole

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Wow.

Oh gee I just noticed your tagline.

~ just another wop

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Oh gee I just noticed your tagline.

~ just another wop

I've always wondered which side of my family had been responsible for my egomanical reasoning... Coulda swore it was the Irish

[Rudeboyelvis]

As a personal affront to Don Guido, I will be celebrating the greatest American Architect of the 20th century - one Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, with rotating Avys of his finest works each week.

This week, Fallingwater.

http://www.fallingwater.org

I have been fortunate enough to take in the masterpiece in person. It's literally built in a real waterfall.

>>Time cited it after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job";[5] it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die."[6] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.[3] In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.<<

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

As a personal affront to Don Guido, I will be celebrating the greatest American Architect of the 20th century - one Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, with rotating Avys of his finest works each week.

This week, Fallingwater.

http://www.fallingwater.org

I have been fortunate enough to take in the masterpiece in person. It's literally built in a real waterfall.

>>Time cited it after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job";[5] it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die."[6] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.[3] In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.<<

I do like his designs . . . just not the way he handled himself as an Architect and please do avatar them . . . I'll try not criticize each one. When I was a young fledgling student of Architecture I studied him well . . . then as I gained real experience and knowledge as a design Architect myself, I grew to cast him aside as any Architect not to emulate.

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

I've always wondered which side of my family had been responsible for my egomanical reasoning... Coulda swore it was the Irish

Falling Water - Beautiful, creative but no family could live there and leaked like a sieve. It's supposed to be a house but nobody could live in it. Cardinal sin for an architect. Enough about FLW and I'm Irish and an Architect but not egomaniacal . . . much?!

[knickslions2]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

Falling Water - Beautiful, creative but no family could live there and leaked like a sieve. It's supposed to be a house but nobody could live in it. Cardinal sin for an architect. Enough about FLW and I'm Irish and an Architect but not egomaniacal . . . much?!

No true Irishman would have a handle DonGuido

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by knickslions2

No true Irishman would have a handle DonGuido

He would if he was part of Mafia . . . not that I was but grew up with and around many Italians, like many Irish lads. Although the Irish could never be "made" they still held significantly high ranks . . . thus I "made" myself, taking on the moniker and title of DonGuido, I am often referred to as "The Don".

[knickslions2]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

He would if was part of Mafia . . . not that I was but grew up with and around many Italians, like many Irish lads. Although the Irish could never be "made" they still held significantly high ranks . . . thus I "made" myself, taking on the moniker and title of DonGuido, I am often referred to as "The Don".

Looks like someone was watching Goodfellows last night

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by knickslions2

Looks like someone was watching Goodfellows last night

Nope but I have seen it many times and also have studied the Mafia for some time. Fascinating beginning in Italy and their history.
I grew up in a small town in upstate NY close to where the mafia used to hold there summer meetings in Apalachin, NY. My cousin lived on the main road to get to the "hide out" campus in the thick woods and it was a campus of multiple cabins. I'd visit him now and then and every so often playing in the front yard we'd see a constant long row of black cadillacs driving about a 1/2 mile past his house and then turning up into the woods. We never knew what was going on until we got much older but thinking back, it was pretty cool.

My wife and I rented our first upstairs apartment over a house owned by and Italian family (nice family) and it was clear he (the father) and his friends were involved in the underworld . . . if not big time, at least in a fairly obvious way. I would often knock on the side door of the basement off the alleyway and tell the somewhat rotund guy with the crooked nose who'd come to the door, and who did not live there, I had the money to pay the rent. He'd leave for couple of minutes and come back and said Mr. (nameless) said it's OK to give me the rent money. What was I gonna do say no? And for the 9 months we lived there we never had one issue with the rent or with the family.