I know, I know, all you Gentle Readers were wondering, “OK, fine, he’s written about pundits, and lulavs, and novels, and he’s endorsed a bookstore, but when will Vardibidian write about 180-foot slides?” The answer: not soon enough. And, really, if some Gentle Reader wants to pay for YHB to take a quick trip to London to see the art—and let’s be clear, here, that the five-story spiral slides, on which we can expect speeds of 30 miles an hour are art—no, really, I’ve asked a professional art historian, and she said “who cares! Giant Slides! Wheeeeeeee!”—I will be happy to blog the experience, possibly with audio.
Or, I suppose, some Gentle Reader could just go and put it on their own damn blog. But what fun would that be? No, far better for me to go. Besides, it might be dangerous. And fun. And art. Did I mention that they look awfully pretty? And that even if one were to be a trifle ... cautious about the whole down-into-the-slide thing, one could just hang around and watch, and even that would be pretty damn cool?
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,
-Vardibidian.
I forget — is art supposed to be transformative, or translocational?
Remind me to depreciate my next work car under the art depreciation schedule instead of the vehicle depreciation schedule.
No, no, no. Art doesn’t depreciate. Its value only increases with time. Didn’t you take Art Appreciation?
Thanks,
-V.
Sure, Art appreciates, but art depreciates. Since I can only afford art for my office, not Art, I depreciate the art.
Or, as I prefer to think of it, pimping out my office with office bling.
“who gets to clean them,” he thinks, a week after thinking about them the first time
Visitors go down the tube in a canvas sack (or something like that), which should act as a decent abrasive…
So. Let’s suggest that a person owns a perfectly ordinary five story tall slide, holding one visitor (8 stone), with a mouth about 32 inches in diameter, and a cylindrical body about, oh, 32 inches around. It would be 200 feet long, more or less. Clear plastic, sturdy, good for continued use.
Furthermore, let’s suggest that a person might have stored in said container a …