On 05 Oct 2004 12:27:36 GMT, Scott Cramer
calmly ranted:

Tom Watson wrote:

In the regard of exterior detail, they are festooned with false
replicants of an earlier and more worthy age of architecture - as a
young child will drape themselves in the finery of their elders -
thinking themselves beautiful and sophisticated.

If you need evidence that money and taste are rarely found together, the
kind of God-awful luxury homes you describe proves the case beyond doubt.

You'll find the same kind of pretentious architrash up here in the White
Mountains, but these are second homes for the most part, used a couple of
weekends a year in some cases. The laughably incongruous mishmash of
complex gables, eyebrow windows, half-timbering, Victorian turrets, stone
facings, etc., is completely out of place next to the local buildings, or
anywhere else for that matter.

I call the style 'Geek Revival.'

Scott, currently second-homeless.

Hey, let's not be dissin' the poor Geeks, alright?


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