not a morning person...plus i need to wear shop clothes to work so i can get dirty.... and i would need a 5 button mouse and a large pair of headphones...... and i dont work during the day.....

puddles always has the softest toilet paper. So absorbent.

can we wait to work for puddles after he makes his move to the british west indies? if we can, then i'm in.

Do you have nude female models?

are your employees allowed to wear pants? or is it a requirement to go pantless like the boss?

i'm sure the boss is already drinking...right now at 9am...that place is going down

I'll take it. When can I start? Drinking, I mean.

Supposedly the worst part of working there is the inordinate number of grizzly bear attacks. Something about him just pisses those omnivores off...

a "friend" of mine worked there one hellish summer as an intern. the long hours were made worse by the former circus bear that lived in the space and regularly stole the employee's lunches. eventually the bear tired of the bland lunches that the underpaid staff brought in and devoured the receptionist. it was a tough day because all of the bosses calls went right into voicemail and thats a no-no in puddlesland.

I've heard working with puddles is kinda soggy. A rainy day kind of activity.

i have also heard that when puddles finds out that mistakes are made immediately puts on a garwondler outfit and turns extremely violent. He then towers over you and screams at you until you nervously pee your pants. Then he forces you to finish the day sitting in your dirty pee pants. it is very humiliating. it is something the other people in the office will never let you live down...you will always be known as "pee pants guy"

you will actually be known as "pee pants guy #x" because htis happened so frequently when i interned there that it was like, up to pee pants guy #7 and pee pants girl #4.

it was a long summer, though i look back fondly on the pre-noon drinking at the desk. good times.

wait puddles is moving to my neck of the woods? Archinect party over here

i'm selling my interns on ebay...you should make a bid puddles

that guy is in such desperate need of having his ego stroked that he'd actually make an intern stay late and post a thread about "working for puddles" as if there were actually some kind of grassroots buzz about his talent.

oh...and he is visibly giddy about the fact that his thread is drawing more posts & rumours than a similar one about rafael vinoly

it'd be funn if i wasn't sad...i gotta get out of here

i just heard that vinoly works for puddles

Will puddles give me my name back ?

leave puddles alone...he's got miles to run
and a marathon to train for

oddly I keep thinking its the name of a woman...

that office is a dinosaur that's clearly been living off the fumes of their early buzz & glory days...but that's just the problem with architectural styles, live by 2nd empire, die by 2nd empire. they never did successfully transition to pomo (or even just mo) and have been in a tailspin ever since.

moreover, puddles still lives in that mansion he bought while riding the high tide of his later commercial success (catering to the m&a and lbo crowds of corporate raiders) even though he can't afford to maintain it. the heat's been off for years and the roof leaks but the guy insists on using his meager royalties from a hit song (recorded while still in high school?) to pay for a bartender and daily fresh flowers. the place, or the admiral as he likes to call it, looks a bit like this sketch...



oddly enough though, a rotting mansion seems to be the perfect fit for a delusional, under-achieving lonely old architect.

that looks like a study sketch for edward scissorhands' house.

That sounds like the basis for a movie, similar to "Belly of an Architect" but without all the figs.

I was told to ask you for an interview puddles

puddles wears too much make-up...especially mascara

I didn't know the job was still available...whats' the pension like puddles??

pizza, pizza

puddles, put the mojito down and just walk away from the blackberry.

oh, i'm so steamed right now!!! get this, that crusty old wanker says you me yesterday afternoon "hey kiddo, you available tomorrow morning? i've got a hot project, everyone's booked so it's falling in your lap. 9am...don't forget the coffee" and then he bolts out the door to "catch a plane" as he likes to say.

i'm confused by all this, which is typical, so i follow up with the office manager and she informs me that it probably had something to do with a "pro bono" design for the local gov and cause its non-billable then it falls in my cheap-ass hands...whatever, i figure but at least i finally get at crack st something like design work.

so 9am, i'm here with the damn coffee and...i wait. finally at 11am jackass shows up, asks what i've done (nothing cept wait for him & watch his coffee cool), looks annoyed & says "well get working"
-i respond, "on what?"
-you're an architect right? make it up...that's what we do
-right, of course
and then he runs along muttering that he's late for brunch. wtf!! and i went too bed sober last night because i thought i had an important morning...bastard

absolute egotist...totally worth avoiding

aw, buddy

if you work for this puddles guy he will rope you into his world of video art installations. He will also try to force feed you experimental cocktails with Easter candy floating on them...this man is dangerous and should be stopped, be warned youth of the architecture world...our studios can not be safe with this type of character loose in them!

thanks for reminding me...deliciously out of season, behold the...




easter lillet





- 3 ounces lillet blanc, chilled
- strip of orange peel, approx. 2" x 1/2"
- one marshmallow peep

pour chilled lillet into a glass* and then flame the orange peel over the glass by squeezing it next to a match such that the oil will spray out. drop the burnt peel into the glass for flavor and then garnish with a marshmallow peep.

*preferably a chardonnay glass used from the reidel "o" series

thanks for reminding me...deliciously out of season, behold the...




easter lillet





- 3 ounces lillet blanc, chilled
- strip of orange peel, approx. 2" x 1/2"
- one marshmallow peep

pour chilled lillet into a glass* and then flame the orange peel over the glass by squeezing it next to a match such that the oil will spray out. drop the burnt peel into the glass for flavor and then garnish with a marshmallow peep.

*preferably a chardonnay glass used from the reidel "o" series

hmmm...so nice i had to post it twice???

this is what I am talking about...sicko...you must be stopped!

puddles what are you doing online? go to the beach man.

this is where puddles lives, and yet he surfs archinect



rediculous

so i was invited to the admiral for a post-prandial apperitif after crossing paths with puddles at the "hot-n-ready" que and this is what i found...creepy...i thought i'd never make it out of there

long-standing rumour...or maybe i should say, legend has it that puddles had one of his early mid-rise pomo towers tattooed on his penis and that he used to entice young women with the pick-up line, "i'm an architect. would you like to see me make a skyscraper?" while flashing a naughty smile.

this would be laughable...except his saggy old man's physique conjures images that are best described as pathetic and sad...no wonder he always so drunk & ornery...

see, this is the kinda BS thread I like. Very funny.

Puddles, even though I posted up above, some how I missed your last post. I laughed out-loud....whups. I just keep thinking of how funny that would be. Do they make "skyscraper" condoms? Maybe I should start that. I could make them after the Renaisance hotel here in Dallas.



It also reminds me of a time in Rome when the Pasta Boys I hung out with tried to tell me how pasta dough rises, but said "becomes erect;" I had a hard time not laughing.

is this how you work a 4 hour work week? Please tell me how

i would work for less than puddles at this point...time to make that sign and stand at an intersection