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<\/a>The Other Stuff That Comes From Cows, Wisconsin<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>A Cheese Store, Wisconsin<\/p><\/div>\n
We proceeded to Spring Green, home of Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a>‘s Taliesin<\/a> (also closed–opened for the season the day we left, dammit–Strike Two!) and were made extremely damp by a couple torrential Midwest storms, lightning and rain and thunder and thunderous rain and awe-inspiringly intense.\u00a0 We stayed at a FLW style inn<\/a>–as close as we got to Frank Lloyd Wright this trip, though I overheard one guest who was checking in say she had read “Loving Frank<\/a>” and that’s why she came to see Taliesin.<\/p>\n The Usonian Inn, Spring Green WI. Strong coffee, weak network.<\/p><\/div>\n Our innkeeper was Romanian and very stressed and very friendly and very friendly about how very stressed she was (technical issues; we understood, as in addition to the digital TV errors she was complaining about to us, the inn’s advertised wireless internet didn’t have the signal strength to reach our room–our USB wireless network thingy wasn’t picking up any local bandwidth either–so we were SOL and had to sit in the lobby if we wanted to retrieve email.)\u00a0 The inn had a great modernistic mechanized Miele coffee maker though–best coffee we had in Wisconsin, I would say, and so stylishly made.\u00a0 It’s fun to watch machines do things, which would become a theme for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n Since Frank wasn’t available, we went to see Spring Green’s other crazy architect attraction, the House On The Rock<\/a>.<\/p>\n Main house, House On The Rock<\/p><\/div>\n The Infinity Room, House On The Rock<\/p><\/div>\n It’s hard to describe Alex Jordan<\/a>‘s maniac design aesthetic and dusty, decadent decor–some of the concepts for which may have been stolen from local artist Tom Every, creator of the Forevertron–but it was an entertaining day meandering through the labyrinth of collected stuff.\u00a0 It’s not that there were rare or authentic items–much of the collection was knock-offs, chintz, and mass-produced–but there was a LOT, a never-ending chain of dimly-lit rooms like opium dens, filled with sequins, brass, costumed mannequins, and hoarded stuff.<\/p>\n Tea stuff, House On The Rock<\/p><\/div>\n Mechanical puppet show, "The Death Of A Drunk"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>