June 2, 2020

The Apple Store in Madison is chicly sculptural, boarded up in black.

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In normal times, that black expanse is all sparkling clear glass.

49 comments:

MayBee said...

Yeah my husband needs his iPhone fixed and the stores aren't open to do it.

Gk1 said...

Poor resource management. For the cost of that you could easily hire a bunch of Korean shop owners with semi-auto rifles and post them on the roof. Shoot or fire on the rabble once and voila! That's the end of that!

Meade said...

In Boy Scouts we called it being prepared.

Laslo Spatula said...

Horizontal version of the 2001 Odyssey Monolith.

Just need apes* in front banging bones. Sideways.

(*movie reference intended only. please.)

I am Laslo.

Rory said...

Looks like a mausoleum.

walter said...

Blackout Tuesday
(Think Different)

Lurker21 said...

The Apple Store is just a front.

That's the local office of "The Men In Black."

tcrosse said...

Black Plywood Matters

Temujin said...

Looks like a spiffy new target.

Original Mike said...
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Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

iSore

Jerry said...

Just means they'll have to be going in the back. Which is probably hardened enough to slow them down long enough for the alarms to get the cops.

If the cops even want to bother...

stlcdr said...

I wonder what Apple's Robocop looks like?

Mr. Forward said...

Ask Again Later

James Graham said...

The next time you're in Paris checkout the windows of stores.

They all have drop-down metal shutters as easy to lower as a window-shade.

Glass breaks, steel doesn't

gerry said...

Apple is fortunate to have hipster clientele who can appreciate the latest in radical chic retail.

Carter Wood said...

Apple renovated the Carnegie Library in downtown D.C. last year, also providing a home to the D.C. Historical Society.

Looted and set on fire this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espZQ9Jv9MI

traditionalguy said...

Ah ha. Someone just decide the Protesters are really smash and grab armed robbers operating with the local police’s blessing.

jg said...

what a brave display of solidarity
it's a floor wax and a dessert topping

PM said...

xlnt Christo memoriam.

Not Sure said...

Needs graffiti

Kai Akker said...

My single bit of lefty-inspired jealous schadenfreude came when I heard they had smashed the glassy Apple store in downtown Philadelphia. I was glad, glad; so bad. Don't ask me why! Just miserable, blackhearted hatred must be the only explanation.

BarrySanders20 said...

Looks like a big dark computer screen. Imagine blogging on that.

rhhardin said...

Riots ought to be more understated. More like Trump tweets.

Deevs said...

Is it black to go along with people's black out Instagram posts, or is that just coincidental?

space said...

great excuse to close and prevent looting like other cities.

Mary Beth said...

Would it be uncharitable to accuse them of pandering? Maybe it's pragmatism that just looks like pandering.

Achilles said...

All for democrats to get power over other people.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

FUCK THA POLICE!

Birkel said...

I call it "electing Democratics" and getting what you deserve.

gbarto said...

Very sharp looking. I hope it doesn't show crowbar scratches. And that it's thick enough.

If I were Apple, I'd be emptying it out the back.

I wonder what happens to China's economy if Apple boards up its stores instead of selling high margin goods from China. But think of all the geniuses out of work.

Mr. O. Possum said...

Its origin and purpose still a complete mystery.

Rick.T. said...

Blogger walter said...
Blackout Tuesday
(Think Different)
—————-
Ok! How about Whiteout Wednesday tomorrow?

Mary Beth said...

Is this in an area where there has been rioting and looting? If not, is this essentially different from following someone around the store because you're afraid they will shoplift?

Carter Wood said...

A band of apes saw it first. Frightened and fascinated, compelled and excited. And one picked up a bone, crashing it down, crashing it down, crashing it down.

Queue Strauss.

Wince said...

"They're gonna put y'all back in plywood!"

rehajm said...

Blackout Tuesday

So they blacked out Apple Music which for $14.99 a month you get to be forced to listen to their selected black playlist instead of the music you enjoy listening to. But no credit for the lost day/s of service.

....and you can still buy an iPad online so more like Half-Blackout Tuesday?

Jim at said...

And here I thought it was Apple's nod to whatever stupid virtual signalling crap my leftist friends are doing on Facebook today.

Paul Zrimsek said...

It's like, how much more black could it be? And the answer is none, none more black.

Original Mike said...

Is this in an area where there has been rioting and looting?"

No, not yet.

Not Sure said...

...and you can still buy an iPad online so more like Half-Blackout Tuesday?

If Apple truly cared, they wouldn't board up their stores. It's like they're calling peaceful protesters "looters".

Rob said...

Apple could have draped matte black paper on the inside of their glass windows, but they chose to use black plywood on the outside. No fools they.

stevew said...

See how woke they are? Instagram was covered with black images today today. Blackout Tuesday, get with it!

cubanbob said...

Wow! Madison has what, $250,000 About the same as Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Where is all this violence coming from? I live i n Dade County Fl, population 2,500,000 and while we are having protests, we are not having vandalism, looting and arson. Why is it everywhere that Democrats run things, always turn to shit?

tommyesq said...

Looks like the gate to Mordor...

Yancey Ward said...

But Apple is on their side???!!!! So why board it up?

Kevin said...

In normal times, that black expanse is all sparkling clear glass.

Once you go black...

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...

cubanbob said...
Wow! Madison has what, $250,000 About the same as Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Where is all this violence coming from? I live i n Dade County Fl, population 2,500,000 and while we are having protests, we are not having vandalism, looting and arson"

The Miami mayor was on Tucker Carlson tonight. He is the ONLY GOP big-city mayor in the nation. That tells you something right there. He is also an ex-firefighter who served on the force during the Miami riots in the '80's. I notice that people like him and the Police Chief of Detroit (who was a kid in Detroit in the '60's and served in LA during the Rodney King riots) don't have the same tolerance for violence and mayhem that say, DeBlasio and Lightfoot have. That's because they already have experience cleaning up after the riots and understand what it does to communities.

He acted quickly and put the brakes on. And he clearly loves his city.

mikee said...

Neat. But the question to be answered is, "Will it burn?"
And we all know the answer, don't we?