Feb. 25th, 2010

defrog: (what would devo do)
ITEM: The US ambassador to the UK unveils the winning design for the new US Embassy building in London: "a 12-storey cube clad in a blastproof glass and plastic façade" surrounded by a 30-metre blast zone.

US embassy

Or, as Warren Ellis describes it:

IT’S A FORTRESS WITH A FUCKING MOAT. It doesn’t say "welcome to a little piece of America, one of the best ideas the world ever had and a country that welcomes the tired and poor and afraid." It says "if you even look at us funny we’ll pour boiling oil on you from the roof. Raise the drawbridge! Release the Mongolian Terror Trout!"

Cue the Architect Sketch.



Non-creative garbage,

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