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  • I went down twice to ask for a new room because any of the ones facing the air wells on either side, the HVAC equipment at the bottom of the airwell, all that noise just shimmies up the walls.

    It's still just a cupcake The Brillig Blogger 2010

  • I went down twice to ask for a new room because any of the ones facing the air wells on either side, the HVAC equipment at the bottom of the airwell, all that noise just shimmies up the walls.

    Archive 2010-02-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010

  • I was amazed watching the film: the expansion of Masonic ritual in a 1930s motif filmed in the Chrysler Building, a savage climbing (by hand, some rockclimbing fake rocks embedded on hanging sheets) the interior airwell of the Guggenheim past and through Rockettes as lambs, a mosh pit/concert (with the bands Agnostic Front versus Murphy's Law - the moshpit/concert was the "2nd Degree" level).

    [film] Cremaster 3 badger 2003

  • That was when he looked up and saw the Boys: half a dozen of them seated on the edge of an open airwell with their feet hanging down toward the tub.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

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