Physically conjoined but separately sold upon construction, the lives of paired buildings (ones that share a common wall) can diverge dramatically as this photo series poignantly illustrates. In various cases, one half is occupied by squatters, filled with trash, burned out by a fire, boarded up, simply deserted or even entirely demolished.

Camilo José Vergara was born in Chile, resides in New York and is famous for documenting urban decay and city slums through text and images, but his Paired Houses set from Camden, New Jersey, tells a particularly powerful tale of times past and present.

This approach epitomizes a theme common to his work, which frequently focuses on showing change over time. Like twins separated at birth, these dual buildings (once mirror images of each other) are uniquely illustrative of change. They are found particularly often in Camden, a place with a long history of struggling against decline.

The common theme: buildings that share a party wall. For the unfamiliar, ‘party walls’ are not as festive as they may first sound. These are simply the shared partitions between buildings that are structurally contiguous – a common phenomena in densely-built areas. This joint element ties homes and other structures almost inextricably together – some of these share stairs, porch roofs and other architectural elements as well, all hard untangle.

Once abandoned, things tend only to get worse for the half still occupied. The other side may be used for anything from sleeping to drug use and dealing. Infestations of vermin on one side can cross back over as well. In many instances, the best-case scenario is to tear down the decaying half, like separating one conjoined twin to save the other.

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I’m leavin’ it! You can bet your sesame seed buns these 10 closed and abandoned McDonald’s have swirled their last McFlurry and will bag burgers no more.

Archless In America

(image via: Flavio Grana)

The usual knock against modern architecture (or should we say, “ARCH-itecture”) is that it lacks character, and the stereotypical mansard-roofed “McStore” style of McDonald’s outlets is the poster child for the genre. With that said, Flickr user Flavio Grana has managed to coax a supersized amount of depth out of the anonymous abandoned McDonald’s location above. Stripped of all brand identity yet instantly recognizable, the moonlit McD’s stands alone in silent glory, a washed-out monument to conspicuous consumer culture.

Sweet & Sour Saucer

(images via: Reddit, Comfortable Disorientation and Geograph UK))

If you thought the UFO-shaped McDonald’s in Roswell, NM was out of this world, then feast your eyes on the former McDonald’s restaurant in Alconbury, UK. First opened in 1990 as The Megatron, the distinctive saucer-shaped eatery was an interplanetary flop: in 1993 it closed but soon re-opened under the McDonald’s banner.

(images via: Daz, Comfortable Disorientation and HuntsPost24/Geoff Soden)

After roughly 15 years serving up burgers, fries & shakes to hungry Huntingdonshire locals, the location shut down for good and (oddly for a closed McDonald’s franchise) remained shuttered for a further half-decade before finally being demolished in mid-2008. Plans are now afoot to allow six “gypsy pitches” to occupy the land where the McUFO once stood. Tramps and thieves are advised to look elsewhere.

Arch-Criminal?

(image via: rustyjaw)

It’s not often an item (with emphasis on the “em”) this large and obtrusive escapes the watchful eyes of the McBrand Police but it seems to have happened here. Flickr user rustyjaw doesn’t explain what the Big M is doing inside an abandoned naval communications station or what plans (if any) he has for this piece of fast food M-orabilia, and that’s probably in his own best interest. Imagine refurbishing and re-electrifying the signage, then mounting it on your dining room wall… awesome to be sure, though it would definitely ruin the mood during intimate gourmet dinners.

Supersize My Storm

(images via: Imgur/1RgbS and Joel Carranza))

If Ronald McDonald wasn’t creepy enough already, check out his zombie clown alter-ego, still (barely) standing in Biloxi, MS, shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in September 2005. It took a while for reconstruction to get into full swing around Biloxi and the neighboring gulf coast but it was too late for both this shattered & shuttered McDonald’s and the tilted Ronald – they’ve been replaced by a Wendy’s.

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A focus on David Lee this week, for whom the struggle is real.

The Trouble with David Lee
Ethan Sherwood-Strauss
TrueHoop

We begin the bathroom reader with a look at David Lee, who can do no right with Warriors fans these days. Ever since the Warriors upended the Nuggets in last year’s playoffs with the team’s sole All-Star (and 3rd team All-NBA member) Lee injured, fans have openly wondered whether the team would be better off trading Lee and moving forward in a different direction. However, as Ethan Sherwood-Strauss argues in this piece for TrueHoop, there are a number of problematic factors that will prevent this from happening anytime soon. Sherwood-Strauss provides a full but concise narrative of the rise and fall of David Lee; from the maiden voyage signing for the team’s new owner, to a victim of circumstance and injury as his counterpart Stephen Curry captured the hearts and attention of a national audience in his absence. Sherwood-Strauss accesses both members of the “traditional” media (in this case, Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News) to the internet based media (Rasheed Malek of Warriorsworld and Andy Liu of Golden State of Mind) to provide tangible examples of scene-shifting souring on Lee, and provides some interesting hypotheses into where this might go. Sherwood-Strauss is correct: with each game, the disappointment of a 13-11 start turns to blame, and that blame is almost exclusively focused on Lee. We’ll see what happens tonight against the upstart Suns.

The Struggles of David Lee (Part I & II)
Sam Esfandiari
Lets Go Warriors

Whereas Ethan Sherwood-Strauss looked at what is happening off-the court — that is, among the media and fans — in relation to David Lee’s recent downward trend, Sam Esfandiari looks at what is happening on-the-court for the struggling foward in this piece for Lets Go Warriors. Unfortunately for Lee (but fortunately for us), the maligned power forward’s problems cannot be condensed into a single part. Part one of the feature focuses on his actual struggles, while part two postulates how to “fix it.” According to Esfandiari’s analysis, things really aren’t pretty for Lee right now, at least in comparison to his All-Star/NBA season last year. Jackson’s decision to play Lee at the end of halves is starting to cost the team. He consistently is getting out-rebounded and out-muscled in the post (a result of weight-loss?) and is not playing well next to Andrew Bogut in the post. His idea for fixing it suits me: have Lee run more with the second unit, and perhaps help struggling bench big man Marreese Speights (who will be playing a lot with Jermaine O’Neal sidelined for the long-term) find his game through increased production. I really liked both these pieces, chiefly because of Esfandiari’s use of stats and shot charts. He uses numbers as a way to instruct — not lecture and prove “correctness” — and writes cleanly and succinctly. Both parts are worth the read, and Esfandiari is a name to keep an eye on.

Lost Soul
Chris Ballard
SI.com

There are many reasons to read every single word of this excellent long-form about Bison Dele, aka Brian Williams, the former NBA center who disappeared from a yacht in 2002, with four others, while living in Tahiti after walking away from the last 5 years (and $36 million) of his contract with the Detroit Pistons in 2000, and whose body (along with the body of his girlfriend, and the captain of the yacht) has never been found. The first, of course, is the story itself; written beautifully by Chris Ballard. We are taken on a bittersweet life journey for a man (and a woman, his girlfriend whom we learn much about) who died too soon; who was far more interested in the world around him than his circumstantial career as a professional basketball player. The story itself is both joyful and somber; delving deep into the minds of multiple humans, and the ways we manage feelings of greed, love and jealousy. But the piece itself is worth reading, as it presents an image of the future of online long-form. Borrowing design elements from the New York Times and Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated throws its hat into the ring with interactive graphics and rising-and-fading images that fully immerse the reader, and create a new way to process the author’s brilliant words. Take 45 minutes of your day and read Chris Ballard’s work. This is the story of the year.

Nutrition in the NBA 
Ken Berger
CBSSports.com

I’ve long been interested in what players eat, and Ken Berger has finally come to my rescue. This multi-part series touches on all sorts of subjects, from diets, to trainers, to the personal temptation to cheat on healthy living with late night snacking a bags of fun-sized candy. Perhaps the most interesting part of the series is where he tells his own story; the transition from a vaguely unhealthy, largely inactive guy to a Paleo-diet Crossfit guy. Throughout it all, there’s a singular focus on how players use what they eat to their benefit, and think about what they eat in order to minimize detriments. I read every part, and now feel inspired to eat better and work out more (which I have been for the past few months). But hey, Ken: if you’re reading this, can you tell the crazy Crossfit girl on my Facebook mini-feed to chill out a little bit? I’m happy she’s in shape, but I don’t need to see her burst weight-lifting callouses all over my computer. I’d appreciate it a lot, if you get a chance. Thanks.

Boris Diaw is the Coolest Crazy Thing to Happen to the Spurs in Ages
Alex Dewey
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There was once a time I used to clown on Boris Diaw in the sophomoric ways most of us used to; before he became a do-it-all positional revolutionary for the Spurs. Most of that clowning focused on Boris’ obvious shortcoming: he had gained some weight since entering the league. I’m happy Alex Dewey exists (though I ceased to focus on this aspect of Diaw’s career some time ago), because as he correctly points out in this piece for SBNation’s Pounding the Rock, it is this weight gain that has made him one of the most useful utility players in the league, as well as one of the most enjoyable to watch. Dewey focuses on Diaw’s passing abilities, which have manifested themselves in brilliant ways, all over the court. After spending some time with NBA.com’s new video box scores, he concludes that Diaw possesses a passing ability that is not shared by 99% of his peers. “The arms and legs of NBA athletes — the lengthiest in the world, and ever-capable of explosive fast-twitch movements — should rightfully end Boris’ possession,” writes Dewey, before concluding that “it ends in success, inexplicably often.” The eye test seems to confirm these conclusions. I enjoyed Mr. Dewey’s effort here, especially it’s surprise, vaguely punt-ish conclusion. Well worth the read.

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The experience calls the mind the climactic moment of the classic 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, in which our protagonist stares into the void and proclaims “it’s full of stars” in awe before being whisked off to a galaxy far away.

This pair of eye-popping installations in New York by Yayoi Kusama  at the David Zwirner Gallery takes visitors into a field of suspended and spectrum-spanning LED lights, organically staggered like stars, and wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling mirrors.

The all-encompassing effect extends to the very door you enter through and close behind you, leaving you and as plank (Silver Surfer board, perhaps) as the only objects in a sea of apparent infinity(images by Steven Meidenbauer, and Rebecca Dale Photography via Colossal).

The artist has been making rooms along these lines for nearly half a century, but in these latest LED-filled wonderlands are the most immersive to date. The show also includes a series of illuminated sculptures, projected videos and wall-hung paintings, but culminates in this pair of these so-called Infinity Rooms that seem to step beyond the boundaries of an art gallery in exist in worlds all their own.

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Life = Basketball. I knew I was good at math.

Monday: Philadelphia 76ers at Brooklyn Nets (4:30 PM PST on League Pass) 

Basketball fans face some slim pickings to begin the week, so Nets versus Sixers it is. Of course, right after The Diss put out longpieces trying to explain their ills, they slapped us upside the head with the Obvious Stick. Of course a healthy-ish Deron Williams, their lead guard, will improve their team. It makes total sense! After all, this entire thing is sort of built around him. Why didn’t I think of that? Silly me. Anyways, I’m actually banking on this game being sneaky fun, just as long as the Sixers (league leaders in pace at 102.2) don’t run the Nets right out of the gym in the first quarter.

Tuesday: Oklahoma City Thunder at Denver Nuggets (6:00 PM PST on NBA TV)

It’s a Backup Point Guard slap-fest, without slapping, of course. Despite my argument for Jermaine O’Neal for Sixth Man (who is doing me a solid with that argument by having wrist surgery) it’s gotta be Reggie Jackson. He’s been revelatory off the bench for the Thunder, teaming up with Jeremy Lamb to form a formidable 1-2 scoring punch that few other second units in the league can match. I mean, look: he’s averaging nearly 15 a game for the Thunder in their 8-1 December, and serving as a useful offensive and defensive anchor for the team in general. But how about that Nate Robinson? I’m really enjoying him this season, and so are the somewhat surprising 15-9 Nuggets. The Andrnate Millerson bench backcourt is lots of fun, and Nate himself is averaging about 14 a game in December. If Nate plays well, they typically win. So keep an eye out for this little delight of a game.

Wednesday: Portland Trailblazers at Minnesota Timberwolves (5:00 PM PST on League Pass)

Hump Day can’t get here soon enough, because I am really excited to watch the first bout of LaMarcus Aldridge versus Kevin Love in this young season. LMA continues to get a lot of early MVP buzz, and for good reason: he’s the most important player on the West’s best team. 31 points and 25 rebounds in a win against the Rockets sticks out in the box score; a 2000 Shaq-esque line. Love, meanwhile, had a really nice weekend for the work-in-progress Wolves, including a 42 and 14 night against the Spurs (including a sickening 8-9 from behind the arc). Since both big men will likely cancel each other out, it will be about the supporting casts on this evening. Blazers have been beasting on just about everyone these days; we’ll see if the Wolves can slow them down.

Thursday: San Antonio Spurs at Golden State Warriors (7:30 PM PST on TNT)

The Homer Game of the week is a doozy; a nationally-televised rematch of the 2013 second round series between my beloved Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs. At one point, I postulated that the Warriors were developing into a younger version of these Spurs, laden with homegrown talent, smart late-first round picks, international assets, and a developing sense of culture and pride. And despite our recent struggles — we’ve lost 9 of our last 15 — I still think we’re on that path. All of our last 10 games or so have been decided by 5 or less points, and the Dubs are putting themselves in the position to win the game by the end of the fourth quarter. In other words: we’re competitive during a rough patch of the season, and that’s a good thing. But that doesn’t mean that our main problems — turnovers, slow starts in the first quarter, an inconsistent defense and an uneven bench — aren’t a concern. But I’m trying to rememer that they’re short-term issues that can be addressed as the season goes on, not deeper franchise faults that can never be rectified. So I’m trying to look at this game (and really, this week) in a positive light. It’ll be a tough week. But the good teams have to make it through the tough weeks, or else they’re not very good.

Friday: Phoenix Suns at Denver Nuggets (6:00 PM PST on League Pass)

I won’t lie: as I watched the 14-9 Phoenix Suns dismantle my Warriors tonight, I got a bit jealous. The Suns are the darlings of the league right now; winners of five straight, and the only team that can boast two wins against the Blazers, as well as wins against the Warriors, Spurs and Heat. They’ve got the hottest backcourt in the league right now in Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic, and some really incredible depth all the way down to their 11th and 12th men. They’ve got a hotshot former-player coach who has the team loving each other off the court, as well as on it. And they’re overachieving like crazy in the first part of the season. Sound familiar? Seeing another team get all the attention — and beating the ol’ wallflower Warriors in the process — makes me jealous. And spiteful. I know I should be less shallow, but I can’t help it.

Saturday: Los Angeles Lakers at Golden State Warriors (7:30 PM PST on League Pass)

Here’s a well-kept secret: even when the Warriors were terrible, Warriors versus Lakers was one of the best rivalries in all of the NBA. There are a ton of reasons for this; the Northern California versus Southern California thing (don’t call it NorCal or SoCal, you’ll look hella dumb if you do), as well as the fact that there are tons of Lakers fans in the Bay, seem to be the main reasons. More than that, there’s some odd history between these two teams; they’ve had some memorable playoff battles in the distant past, and of course, Kobe tore his achilles against the Warriors last year. I’ve had the pleasure of going to a few Warriors/Lakers games at Oracle, and it’s a lot like a boxing match, where the crowd is split 50/50, but both sides are loud and voracious, and intensely behind their fighter in the ring. And for whatever reason, it always seems like the games are instant classics; frequently coming down to the final seconds, and all-too-constantly decided by Kobe Bryant in a last-second blaze of glory. And now Kobe is back. So I’m hoping for another classic; in the Warriors favor, for once.

Sunday: Boston Celtics at Indiana Pacers (3:00 PM PST on League Pass)

If you’re into college ball, you’re perhaps a little interested in Brad Stevens return to Indianapolis, where he did all sorts of nutty things as the head basketball coach at Butler University. But I don’t give a shit about college ball, so I’m just excited about watching a Celtics team that seems to really like playing for their coach, and a Pacers team who could give a shit about their youthful energy. This is one of those mirror-image games for sure; the scrappy, Atlantic Division-leading Celtics resemble a younger version of the Pacers, who are looking more and more like the title favorite with each signature win. I’ll be excited to laze around on Sunday afternoon and watch this intriguing matchup between programs that seem to be doing this professional basketball thing the absolute right way.

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala

Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday said corruption was destroying the nation’s economy and called on the nation’s private sector to support the federal government in its war against corruption and other areas of economy where wastages occur.

The minister who made the appeal during a Breakfast Dialogue with the Private sector organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos, said the problem of corruption, theft and wastages has constituted an albatross to the country’s rapid development…

“Corruption is a serious issue for us because it is destroying our country, eating deep into the fabrics of the economy, we can’t have infrastructure and development with these level of corruption,” [the minister said.]

“We are not helpless, but we need your help to grow the economy and it will begin with the private sector joining hands to help government fight corruption, mismanagement and waste in government.

“It begins with you to say I would not pay bribe, not only will I not pay, I will report to authorities, also by supporting those trying to fight corruption, not castigating those trying to fight it, where we are not doing well point it out to us, anywhere you see wastage report to us, we would do something about it,” she added…

“We need to have the courage to start the corruption fight, fighting corruption is not an easy thing, because you risk a lot of things but you must continue to fight it, she declared.”…

In America we have a seemingly endless succession of near-identical cemeteries, filled with orderly rows of bland stones that tell us nearly nothing about the people buried underfoot. But in other parts of the world, the final resting places of the dead are far more interesting, exotic, decorative and strange. Some tribes of the Pacific bury their babies in trees, while others hang their coffins from cliffs. Solemn ossuaries deep beneath churches in Austria and Italy hold thousands of hand-painted skulls, and colorful cemeteries in Romania tell dirty jokes about loved ones who have passed on.

Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic

The skeletons of somewhere between 40,000 and 70,000 people are arranged in dazzling decorative patterns all over the walls and ceiling of the Sedlec Ossuary, a small Roman Catholic Chapel in the Czech Republic. Located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints, this subterranean ossuary attracts over 200,000 visitors per year who gape and gawk at garlands of skulls, a massive chandelier, ceiling patterns and other designs made of human bones.

Cliff-Hanging Coffins, Philippines

Coffins cling precariously to a cliffside at Sagada, on Luzon Island in the Philippines. Rebar is hammered into the limestone to support the coffins as part of a unique burial ritual; the coffins are typically made of hollowed-out logs. This tradition is thousands of years old, and some of the wooden coffins have begun to decay, providing glimpses of the skulls and other human remains held inside. Some of the coffins are in caves rather than clinging to the cliffs, making them more accessible. Unfortunately, not everyone is respectful of the customs, and there have been problems with tourists taking home bones as souvenirs.

City of the Dead, North Ossetia

This looks like the remains of a medieval village, with small dwellings grouped together on a grassy hill. But go knocking on the doors, and you won’t find a living soul. That’s because this is the City of the Dead, an ancient cemetery near the village of Dargavs, Russia where residents have been burying their dead for hundreds of years. Legend has it that in the 18th century, a plague infected many of the townspeople. Those who didn’t have family to build quarantine houses for them and care for them simply went to the cemetery and waited to die.

Tree Graves for Babies, Indonesia

The small thatched doors on this tree in Indonesia are, sadly, not entrances to some kind of mythical fairy land. They’re graves for the babies of the Toraja ethnic group. The Torajans have a number of unusual death rituals, including hanging graves from ricky cliffsides like those in the Philippines. They also have a ritual called Ma’Nene, wherein the bodies of the deceased are exhumed, washed, groomed, dressed in new clothes and paraded around the village before being reburied.

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Of course, there’s always the chance you’ll wipe out and somehow manage to damage the items contained inside – but that’s a risk when you’re carrying them in a bag while skating, too. The Briefskate is available in long and mini versions, and they’re about to launch a Kickstarter campaign.

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