cardhouse

September 12th, 2010 at 12:23 pm via the fine mind behind cardhouse and the archives there, reminder that fried foodstuffs are endemic to county fairs everywhere:

30 NFL Linemen Agree | clusterflock 2010

All of life was just a cardhouse built of errors and all it took was the smallest jolt to knock it down.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Excellent gallery of outré product packaging from cardhouse.

Boing Boing: January 7, 2001 - January 13, 2001 Archives 2001

Though ofcourse below the surface my life was a cardhouse always close to collapsing.

Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

It was growing dark, so that we could just distinguish the dim outlines of the two vessels in the offing; and the great seas were rolling in, in regular lines, growing larger and larger as they approached the shore, and hanging over the beach upon which they were to break, when their tops would curl over and turn white with foam, and, beginning at one extreme of the line, break rapidly to the other, as a long cardhouse falls when the children knock down the cards at one end.

Chapter IX. California-A South-Easter 1909

It was growing dark, so that we could just distinguish the dim outlines of the two vessels in the offing; and the great seas were rolling in, in regular lines, growing larger and larger as they approached the shore, and hanging over the beach upon which they were to break, when their tops would curl over and turn white with foam, and, beginning at one extreme of the line, break rapidly to the other, as a long cardhouse falls when the children knock down the cards at one end.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869