I just decided that watching Eraserhead before going to bed possibly wasn't the best idea, and that I should clear my head with a little Internet. Now I'm doomed.
When my wife and I were looking at houses a while back, we toured a house with an ancient forced-air furnace. The thing had so many tubes and ducts running in and out of it that it looked like Cthulhu's deformed son. And it was in this tiny, dingy, dark closet of a room. Creepy.
May 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Jody said...
Am I the only one who saw something, er, NSFW in the first picture?
I see something a bit more creepy, which is that the pipes are just two of the legs extending from a giant spiderlike alien creature, like Maman by Louise Bourgeois.
Wasn't this thing in the basement of the Stanley Hotel [ok, The Overlook] in Steven King's The Shining?
"The thought came into Jack Torrance's mind full-blown...the boiler. It has a tendency to creep and could blow quite easily."
May 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Scott said...
The concrete floor in the basement has a classic "detail" common in the 50's and 60's. Nowadays when you scrim the excess concrete off the slab, you shovel the extra off and dispose of it. Back then they would sometimes avoid this step by piling the extra on the sides of the foundation, making a little concrete hill around your floor. In theory this could be handy if a pipe breaks.
May 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM
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THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! WOMEN AND BLOGGERS FIRST! AAAAAHHHHHHH!
[Image] (Note: the bottom photo is not from the listing. My young son just did that for me. Should I report myself to CPS and just get it over with?)
"Rar!"
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"That's no ordinary furnace! It's got a mean streak a mile wide! It's got huge sharp ... it can leap about ... LOOK AT THE BONES!"
May 14, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Haha! Excellent enhancement on the second pic!
- a Carol
May 14, 2009 at 7:32 PM
That thing is scary, but at least the toilet is clean.
May 14, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I couldn't sleep knowing that was in the basement.
May 14, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Poor robot lost an eye in 'Nam.
May 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Report yourself to CPS as an awesome mom - the second drawing is proof.
May 14, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I just decided that watching Eraserhead before going to bed possibly wasn't the best idea, and that I should clear my head with a little Internet. Now I'm doomed.
May 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Of coarse not. You should apply to get him an art grant and then sit back & let him take care of you.
May 14, 2009 at 9:04 PM
When my wife and I were looking at houses a while back, we toured a house with an ancient forced-air furnace. The thing had so many tubes and ducts running in and out of it that it looked like Cthulhu's deformed son. And it was in this tiny, dingy, dark closet of a room. Creepy.
May 14, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Am I the only one who saw something, er, NSFW in the first picture?
Hello, Dr. Freud, how did you get in here?
May 14, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I see something a bit more creepy, which is that the pipes are just two of the legs extending from a giant spiderlike alien creature, like Maman by Louise Bourgeois.
I'm glad that image was cropped.
May 15, 2009 at 2:55 AM
I love your son's enhancement of the photo!
May 15, 2009 at 5:24 AM
I'd like to see a cage match between that furnace and my great-grandmother's (no-longer functioning) coal furnace.
That thing gave me nightmares. It STILL gives me nightmares.
May 15, 2009 at 8:06 AM
OMFG. What the heck were they thinking?!
May 15, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Did anyone else notice that the front door is like two feet off the ground with no steps?
May 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Wasn't this thing in the basement of the Stanley Hotel [ok, The Overlook] in Steven King's The Shining?
"The thought came into Jack Torrance's mind full-blown...the boiler. It has a tendency to creep and could blow quite easily."
May 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM
The concrete floor in the basement has a classic "detail" common in the 50's and 60's. Nowadays when you scrim the excess concrete off the slab, you shovel the extra off and dispose of it. Back then they would sometimes avoid this step by piling the extra on the sides of the foundation, making a little concrete hill around your floor. In theory this could be handy if a pipe breaks.
May 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM