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Wednesday, 21 September 2005
Now where are the Hand Chairs?
Ha! Ha!

Though it's been years since I've seen any of them, there are a few episodes of The Odd Couple I'll always remember. Well, tiny bits of them, anyway: Oscar asking if tuna fish was supposed to go "crunch". Felix lecturing on the meaning of the word "ASSUME". But above all, the time Felix decorated the apartment in Postmodern Kitsch.

The whole room was just absurdly tacky, but what grabbed my attention the most was the clock: a seemingly random pattern of brightly colored dots in a black face, which everyone could instinctively read, except Oscar. This clock (the "Model I"), to be precise. I wanted that clock. I lusted after that clock. It was from that episode's forehead that my love of weird timepieces sprang fully formed. Well, that and Gerry Anderson's Doppelgänger.

And of course there's a modern version of the dot clock. But at $600, it'll have to get in line behind the Nixie Tube clock. Damn it, why are all the nifty toys so expensive?


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Lisa and I have seen about 5 hand chairs since you mentioned you like them.
Posted by Lunchbox on 22 Sep 2005 09:41