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Eyesore of the Month - October 2025 | Eyesore - That space alien invasion you heard about. . . it's here!
Kunstler.com ^ | 2 Oct, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 10/08/2025 5:44:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber

You probably can’t tell whether this is the alien itself or the ship it landed in. Possibly both at the same time. Hard to distinguish the tentacles from the portholes or the eye-sockets, while the salmon-pink folds and creases have a certain gynecologiocal feeling. In any case, this beast landed in Xalapa, capital of Veracruz state, Mexico. It is called Casa de los Milagros or House of Miracles by architect Danilo Veras Godoy and is a private residence, not an intergalactic freight transport vehicle / organism.

As a technical matter, this is an extreme case of what you get when a building is designed from the inside-out, without a whole lot of concern for the pattern language of the building culture in your civilization — and Mexico has quite a good one, starting with the Colonial Baroque of the post-Cortez era. That interesting mashup of the Aztec residue with Spain of the Inquisition is what you see in the dancing skeletons of our time, five hundred years later. It must have been a daunting task to manage the place back then. (An early Mexican viceroy described his philosophy of government as: Do little and do it slowly.)

In any case, this “house” stands in what appears to be subtropical cloud-forest, not a street with its demand for civic decorum. It can be whatever it wants, and it apparently wants to be something like the leftovers on a vivisection table.

Below, a glance at the main entrance / exit staircase with its side-by-side slide. Yes a slide! (For playfulness!) Looks like it would be a pretty hard landing at that angle. Ouch! Call my abogado! The joke ends up being on the home-owner. As usual.

Shout-out to Rick Darby for the nomination.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: architecture; casadelosmilagros; daniloverasgodoy; galsaresological; gynecological; houseofmiracles; jameshowardkunstler; jhk; mexico; veracruz; xalapa

1 posted on 10/08/2025 5:44:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Eyesore of the month ping


2 posted on 10/08/2025 5:45:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn


3 posted on 10/08/2025 5:48:13 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber

An idiot and his money are soon parted.....


4 posted on 10/08/2025 6:01:04 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Obi-Wan Kenobi: Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?)
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To: NorthMountain

“ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”
Datz racissssss!


5 posted on 10/08/2025 6:18:48 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: MtnClimber

Fear aliens that we know will try to harm us.


6 posted on 10/08/2025 6:44:02 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: MtnClimber

It looks like somebody threw a glob of Silly-Putty on a table and took a knife to it.

Good luck trying to sell it in a weak market like today.


7 posted on 10/08/2025 7:44:01 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: MtnClimber

Warning ⚠️
Do not take LSD anywhere near this residence!


8 posted on 10/08/2025 8:10:58 AM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Looks like those at the residence already have.


9 posted on 10/08/2025 8:15:56 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

An architect’s design for the glory and praise from other idiots (er,self-worshipping architects.)


10 posted on 10/08/2025 10:47:56 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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