mobylosangelesarchitecture:

so there i was, just walking around long island, and i found a house made out of a giant barrel. or, well, a house designed to look like a giant barrel. just sitting there happily in the middle of potato fields and hedge fund manager&rsquo;s modest 15,000 square foot palatio-mansions.
i wondered to myself, &lsquo;do they have flat walls? or is it like a wallace neff house where you&rsquo;d be hard pressed to hang a picture?&rsquo; then i got jealous.
why do they have a barrel house in long island?
shouldn&rsquo;t we have barrel houses in l.a?
we should. but alas, i don&rsquo;t believe that we do. please prove me wrong. and/or build a barrel house.
contextually it&rsquo;s nice to have a barrel house in the land of egregiously unsubtle 20,000 square foot hedge fund mansions. which is not to malign hedge fund mansions. except that they&rsquo;re unsubtle. egregiously so. and huge. again, unsubtly so. but i guess the apocalypse needs gatekeepers, and the apocalypse gatekeepers need apocalypse gatehouses (20,000 sq foot mcmansions).
my benign apocalypse will have gatekeepers who live in happy little barrel houses. because i plan on having a happy apocalypse.
-moby