HULK SMASH!!!
Morning, Philly
Terra! wording at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
row,row,row your house.
And this is me coming home.
morning again peeps.
NPR had a bit from a recent Obama speech, hittin' on the Sinfonian (and to me, utterly accurate) meme that McCain = third term of Bush.
We really need to get the Huggy Bear image on billboards all over the country, with a tag line like "Four More Years!"
City neighbors live on the bus, don't they?
I love my little rowhouse (here they call it "terraced housing") and my little garden. Nobody pees on it as far as I can tell. The view isn't that great but I have nice neighbors and at night from my back garden the street lights are cut off enough that I can see a few stars.
I think I've had fifty or so people at a party, but we hold them in the summer and people often sit out back. The kitchen is tiny and I've never quite worked out why people would rather congregate there than in the front room where there's an actual sofa and all.
I could wish for many improvements - and frequently wish for closets - but it's definitely not so bad.
We really need to get the Huggy Bear image on billboards all over the country, with a tag line like "Four More Years!"
David Derbes, ochen' pissed. | 05.10.08 - 8:11 am | #
Or "100 More Years!"
a tag line like "Four More Years!"
David Derbes, ochen' pissed.
I like the Apocolypse Now theme myself. fitting.
Nobody has peed in my lilac bushes since the year 2000.
That's just stupid.
From the description, it seems that it's the non-residents who have been sticking it out.
Nobody has peed in my lilac bushes since the year 2000.
No, but they've been raining on our parade ever since.
Here, the garden is big enough that I could start renting out space if enuff people wanted to grow their own stuff.
I think the columnist meant to say he couldn't fit 80 people in his old row-house living room, although he was sloppy and should have been clearer about that.
But now that you mention it, a lilac bush is something I've missed and keep meaning to acquire for the garden.
it seems that it's the non-residents who have been sticking it out.
animus
I've got two lilac hedges. The one in the back is pretty cool-- ancient (40 years old) twisted trunks that follow the sun horizontally up the yard.
I still don't like it, tho. I want to tear it out.
The grass is always greener over the septic tank, though.
Lilac is grand and so are peonies.
In my little tiny garden
I meant to recall the Nixonian line "Four More Years!". In the event, it was a little under 2.
If every enemy this country has ever had, across the 232 years it's been going, could come together to smite us, they could do no worse than to have imposed Bush on us in 2000.
Without hyperbole, I think a third Bush term would effectively destroy the country, as surely as nuclear strikes on our major cities.
I want to tear it out.
Moe Szyslak, cold
Spare the lilac. Take it out on the grass.
Nice roses!
I don't get the "City living isn't easy" thing, either. I live one block from the bus station, can get anywhere I need in essentially no time at all. I have every needed service within a ten-minute walk. How is that "not easy"?
Nice, Avedon!
Spare the lilac. Take it out on the grass.
Ruth
The grass is pretty much gone already. I want to tear out at least half the lilacs, put in a shed/greenhouse, which will serve the additional purpose of more fully screening my neighbour's yard.
Love the roses, Avedon. They don't like TX so much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-...h?v=-
nrKCltJkTw
Our favorite U.P. reggae band Ignorant Mob.
BTW we were at Farmfest watching live...
Without hyperbole, I think a third Bush term would effectively destroy the country, as surely as nuclear strikes on our major cities.
I think a second Bush term has already done that, but let's hope I'm wrong.
And, yeah, I have buses, the Underground, and cabs in a pinch. I rather like it. When I lived in the Maryland suburbs, it was too far from anywhere to afford cabs, and I had to have a car to get anywhere.
Oh , the drummer is stone fucking blind, fyi.
I think it sounds lovely. And I'll be a resident or two has pee-ed on a shrub or fence now and then.
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Moe, my crepe myrtles are trees, so they screen the scenery better than a shed, especially since they have gorgeous bloom and a lovely scent. A shed would detract.
I used to dream of living in a terrace house in Sydney, but I never managed to do it when I was there. And I'm now back in Canberra, which isn't old enough to have such things.
From the link:
City living isn't easy. It never has been. I was at an evening event at the National Constitution Center on April 21 where emcee Jerry Blavat was lecturing the crowd about a time when neighbors kept kids in line by threatening "to tell their parents."
Was there ever such a time? Maybe there were some kids who listened. I sort of did. My friend Dominic? Not as much. The kid we called "Elvis?" Not at all. "Charlie the Fist?" He was the first kid from our neighborhood to do a stretch in state prison.
The other newspaper publishes a column called "In the Line of Duty," honoring Philadelphia police officers who lost their lives while on the job. If you read it regularly, you notice that most of the officers were shot to death by teenagers robbing houses and stores, or during raids on gambling dens or bawdy houses. From what I read, these were almost weekly events between 1900 and World War II in Philadelphia, so obviously not a lot of kids historically have heeded neighbors' threats.
This particular rose bears looking at the larger photo - it's like it's encrusted with gems.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...kwater-
usa.html
Blackwater Worldwide, the security company involved in 17 Iraqis’ deaths, still has a contract to guard diplomats.
I think a second Bush term has already done that, but let's hope I'm wrong.
I'm about halfway through Charlie Savage's Takeover, and from what I've read thus far, I'm inclined to agree with you.
Ruth-- the lilacs have no leaves for seven months of the year. You can see right through them. The shed/greenhouse will be a nice addition. I'll probably do it next year.
News mentions that Jan and Feb were remarkable for tornadoes occuring in the U.S. Now hitting No.VA, scenes of destruction - good thing there's no such thing as climate change or such rot.
I thought this was the U.P.'s special band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5...h?
v=50IgzksUqpQ
Moe, of course it's your view, I just have a soft spot for brush, it's nesting for birds. Poor things, snif.
This is BIG news here:
QUEBEC — French President Nicolas Sarkozy firmly realigned France's foreign policy toward Canada yesterday, distancing himself from Quebec sovereigntists and saying he no longer wants to choose between Canada and Quebec.
In Normandy, while standing next to Governor-General Michaëlle Jean in a ceremony at the Bény-sur-Mer cemetery for Canadian soldiers killed during the Second World War, Mr. Sarkozy all but abandoned France's long-standing policy of "non-interference and non-indifference" toward Quebec's independence movement.
"You know, we are very close to Quebec, but I want to tell you, we also love Canada very much. Our two friendships, our two loyalties don't oppose each other," he said. "We will take them and turn towards the future so the future of Canada and France becomes the future of two countries, that are not only allies, but two friends."
In his most vibrant plea yet in favour of Canadian national unity, Mr. Sarkozy embraced the sacrifice all Canadians made in liberating France during the war.
Must go feed - speaking of limestone cross troughs, which we were earlier. There's a terraist peeing in your lilacs, quick! to the balustrades! at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q...h?v=qFV1nCq-
C3g
My favorite Blue Highway tune (a capella).
I thought this was the U.P.'s special band
They're special. Second week of Deer Camp.
heh, my neighbour has put a bird feeder on his side of the fence, just below the lilacs. I don't know what's changed-- in former years it attracted mostly lbbs, which were harmless enough, but lately the crows and jays have been feeding from it. I'm not enamoured of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Q...feature=related
This'll wake up your soul.
Harper says anti-Israeli sentiment is "thinly disguised anti-semiticism."
Avedon, lovely.
Made chorizo and eggs this am. Was very bueno.
Harper:
OTTAWA - Some of the criticism brewing in Canada against the state of Israel, including from some members of Parliament, is similar to the attitude of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Thursday.
"I guess my fear is what I see happening in some circles is (an) anti-Israeli sentiment, really just as a thinly disguised veil for good old-fashioned anti-Semitism which I think is completely unacceptable," Harper said in an interview with CFRB radio.
"We learned in the Second World War that those who would hate and destroy the Jewish people would ultimately hate and destroy the rest of us as well, and the same holds today."
I don't know what's changed-- in former years it attracted mostly lbbs, which were harmless enough, but lately the crows and jays have been feeding from it. I'm not enamoured of them.
I never had problems with pigeons at my feeder until this year.
intersting to note about Blue Highway's banjo player - he was born without fingers on his left hand.
Doesn't slow hin down a lick .
Harper says anti-Israeli sentiment is "thinly disguised anti-semiticism."
Moe Szyslak, cold
Nonsence. About the saying as saying that objecting to the policies of GWB indicates hatred of all Americans. Could you please get rid of Harper before I move back to Canada.
This morning the Starbucks less than a half mile away opened.
City living is so hard.
When I used to live in the Cincinnat area (on either side of the Ohio river) I lived in a few row houses. Some were pretty crummy, but the nicer ones were as nice as any house I've ever seen. Big rooms with high ceilings wood floors, in a couple of the house fancy cut glass windows into the entry way, and crystal/glass chandeliers. The bigger ones you could easily have a few hundred over for a party, if it spilled between floors.
This morning the Starbucks less than a half mile away opened.
City living is so hard.
racymind
But where will customers park? 
stairs, bitches!
Harper's a fuckwit.
We live in the city, because we love it here.
The jewish Bob Rae condemns Harper's comments. As he should.
Not much going on here this morning. I'm gonna go work in the garden. Later, all.
This morning the Starbucks less than a half mile away opened.
this morning a fox was walking around the yard; searchin' for moles, voles and mice
Sorry Barack-Hussein but the Heartland rejects your failed Marxist-Leninist platform and will not trade in their Bibles for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, even at gunpoint.
http://www.pluggd.tv/audio/chann.../episodes/
47d62
What people usually mean by "row house" in Philadelphia are the "Airlite" style houses, so-called because of the skylight/air shaft in the single bathroom. Most of them were built in the 20s, and yeah, they're pretty small. You couldn't fit 80 people in them and still breathe. (Unless they were dead, and you stacked the bodies.)
The older houses in South Philly, the ones with the brownstone fronts, are much bigger.
Israel cannot have democracy without criticism. And Canada cannot have a foreign policy without judgement.
But where will customers park?
Marcellina
Drive-thru takes care of that. Should help Houston's air quality too.
*cough*
Doug -- Someone last night called Cinci a shithole, which in ways it may well be. But I love the way it climbs the hill when approached from the river, and the few row house neighborhoods I've seen.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=U...feature=related
Wake uptune, espeically for Jeffraham.
Sorry Barack-Hussein but the Heartland rejects your failed Marxist-Leninist platform and will not trade in their Bibles for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, even at gunpoint.
Wright time for McCain
Put down the spray paint and back away from it slowly.
I live in NYC and it is easier in lots of ways to live in a city. When I had our daughter, I could put her in the baby bjorn and off we went to the Met or the Guggenheim or the park. If I had errands to do I put her in the stroller and off we go, no putting her in and out of car seats, no driving, no parking.
Sorry Barack-Hussein but the Heartland rejects your failed Marxist-Leninist platform and will not trade in their Bibles for The Autobiography of Malcolm X
you are really scared of the black man aren't you? i will bet you have hardly ever spoken to or had a black friend.
childhood indoctrination by your daddy really worked, eh? skinner was proven fucking right!
susie,
I know there are plenty of tiny rowhouses in philly, it's just that this article makes it sound as if they're all like that.
Wright time for McCain, not getting satisfaction from the political process, has decided to cling to antipathy to people who aren't like him.
Good morning, all.
My house has been taken over for the day by 25 physicians. I am keeping the coffee pot filled and hiding in the spare room.
Wright time for McCain
Have you seen me? I've been missing for months. They must have me on milk cartons by now.
Help!
Barndog, you're starting to like that broadband, eh?
My house has been taken over for the day by 25 physicians. I am keeping the coffee pot filled and hiding in the spare room.
Gromit
Lock the liquor cabinet!
Lock the liquor cabinet!
racymind
And any pets you have.
Now, according to a new White House Office of National Drug Control Policy report, teens using marijuana put themselves at higher risk for serious mental problems including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide.
The report, called Teen Marijuana Use Worsens Depression: An Analysis of Recent Data Shows “Self-Medicating” Could Actually Make Things Worse, sustains that teens using marijuana increase their risk of developing a mental disorder by 40 percent. Teens who use marijuana at least once a month over a yearlong period are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than those who don’t use the drug.
However, the most consistent finding of the report was that using marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of depression puts teenagers at a high risk of becoming addicted to pot and increases their chances to develop mental health problems, such as an advanced form of depression, anxiety, as well as suicide.
oooooo, more propaganda...hey how's this: my working for someone else increases my depression, therefore working for someone else ought to be illegal
Lock the liquor cabinet!
Crap. Didn't think of that.
Lots of Obama and hippie stickers on the cars outside. Also three bikes and a Honda scooter.
It's a retreat of the family practice department.
Morning, all
Row houses?
I don't know but the whole concept reminds me of the movie soylent green.
I like having a front, back and side yards. I like having my tomato plants on the side yard garden against the house. I like that the other side has the raised brick planters with overflowing posies in them.
I like the small flat stone path I created along the sides so that a person can walk all around the house barefoot and not get their feet too dirty.
I also like my trees in the front yard blocking the sun during the hottest time of the summer.
I also like my backyard evergreens, the hemlocks and the arborvitaes.
I like the flower beds and everything else I have in my backyard which during the greenest point of spring and summer too keep the other houses out of sight and allow me to think I am alone to my thoughtt and my kids.
I do not like having the neighbors complain that I am playing my music too loud just because they can barely hear the tunes through the walls but is enough to irritate them.
And last but not least I hate it when i come outside to have a neighbor give me the thumbs up, wink or nod cause he heard be banging Mrs MYOB.
That's why I do not like the claustophobic row houses.
MYOB'
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It's a retreat of the family practice department.
Gromit
Primary care providers! Hell! Let me come over , mix the drinks, get 'em stoned, foot massages, whatever...
And any pets you have.
Took the crazy dog to daycare before people arrived. Went to the bank, then dropped the car off at the garage to have the snow tires taken off, and walked home.
early morning Atrios is scaring me. what's next, he buys a car?
driveby/threadkill: in which i mock one of my oldster commenters, and attempt to save Corrente with flower, flowers, and more flowers. seriously, i'm very proud of these and i hope you enjoy them, they should lift you out of any bad mood. off to nursery with me, you kids have a good one.
Has John McCain left this building?
You couldn't fit 80 peeps in a trinity like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W...h?
v=WCjLQDoo02A
But the usual rowhouse like yours, sure. All in the living room though?
A
what idiot wrote that?
city living "isn't easy" because you have to find someplace to find your honking monster SUV? Because you don't have an Applebee's or Dead Lobster on every corner?
To quote Gossamer the Monster: "PEEEEEE-PLE!"
The horror.
Well, there's small, and then there's smallest. I grew up in one of the "medium" small ones (the ones with porches), but we did have four bedrooms.
The family across the street from us raised 15 kids in one of those houses, with military-style, triple-decker bunks and two picnic tables in the kitchen.
The family across the street from us raised 15 kids in one of those houses, with military-style, triple-decker bunks and two picnic tables in the kitchen.
Susie from Philly
The Duggars?
of course, when i say "find", i mean "park".
I didn't mean you're not right about this article. Fairmount row houses, even the smaller ones, are a good size. Some of them are huge.
Kendra Gaeta, by the way, is a big Philly booster. She's behind this awesome initiative: www.movetophilly.com
Well, there's small, and then there's smallest. I grew up in one of the "medium" small ones (the ones with porches), but we did have four bedrooms.
This New Yorker has been looking at the real estate in Philly. "Small" is relative, hon.
Gossamer the Monster
watertiger
MSNBC's red-headed stepchild?
80 on the ground floor. even mcmansions don't usually have a "fit 80" sized room. It's just an odd way to suggest they're small.
Sorry Barack-Hussein but the Heartland rejects your failed Marxist-Leninist platform and will not trade in their Bibles for The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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please tell me this is parody.
a guy with nuclear industry insiders is a 'marxist-leninist.'
a guy who tried to unseat bobby rush wants to replace bibles with 'the autobiography of malcolm x.
this is either parody
or
very weak propaganda.
i didn't scroll up
to find the
'author'
of course, when i say "find", i mean "park".
Heh. Watched a faculty colleague trying to parallel park Thurs night when we were taking a job candidate out to dinner.
Country folks don't get much practice, unlike those of us in the Big City.
(at 38,000, Burlington is the largest city in the state, and by far the smallest of all largest cities in the state, if that makes any sense)
My first house was a row house in Queens. Approximately 18 feet wide. Perfect for keeping track of two babies.
driveby/threadkill: in which i mock one of my oldster commenters, and attempt to save Corrente with flower, flowers, and more flowers.
very nice, it looks like your soil is pretty good too; shredded maple leaves with fresh grass clippings mixed together make a brilliant mulch/soil amendment. i use fireplace ash instead of lime for our acidic soil in the northeast...and the next OG thing i am looking at is ancient charcoal fertilizer that has been recently rediscovered in teh amazon basin
I was in a McMansion the other day where you could fit 80 people in the Master Bathroom...under the cathedral ceiling...a few might have ahd to get into the 6 seater tub....
UNSIZE THIS MANSION YOU CAD!
Kendra Gaeta
Lovely name
Of course there's nothing quite so much fun as being stacked in a rowhouse with 80 other people for a house show!
We have a "small" house for the 4 of us. About 1500 sq feet and that includes a guest bedroom. We do fine.
(at 38,000, Burlington is the largest city in the state, and by far the smallest of all largest cities in the state, if that makes any sense)
Gromit
Official city limits can be deceptive sometimes when looking at the metropolitan area.
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
Our house is 2 yo construction on a quarter acre lot. At 1700 sq ft it's the smallest new house in the area, with the exception of trailers and Habitat houses. And it's still a lot more than we need.
Kendra Gaeta's also a big cat lover. You can see her at a First Person Arts Story Slam, here, telling a story about a Cat Psychic. (Story Slams are every 4th Tuesday at L'Etage, by the way: May 27th is next: Kendra'll be a guest storyteller)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Khgf9y9eIt4
One of my favorite apartments was on the second floor of a shotgun house on Magazine Street in New Orleans...you heard the neighbors...better than TV
I wouldn't want to live in Philly. I heard it's worse than Baghdad.
a friend's brothers wife was so cheap she didn't allow the kids to go on school trips that cost anything.
bought them second-hand clothes all through high school and gave her husband .25cents a day for spending money.
after the kids moved out she produced the 'savings' and the two parents bought an enormous house.
just fucking enormous.
the husband is still on an 'allowance' and the kids are furious.
just furious.
the husband has had one heart attack.
Heh. Watched a faculty colleague trying to parallel park Thurs night when we were taking a job candidate out to dinner.
(at 38,000, Burlington is the largest city in the state, and by far the smallest of all largest cities in the state, if that makes any sense)
Gromit
Either you are talking about population density or it's a city of midgets.
Official city limits can be deceptive sometimes when looking at the metropolitan area.
Our "metro" area is probably about 150k, if you count dairy herds and NTodd
Bush Sucks, The MSM sucks, the suburbs suck, Cats rule. That's all this blog is about.
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
Atrios
Whew! Too far to commute for my nightly sunsets on the beach.
small, eh Trifecta? We have a 1,090 sq ft cottage for 3 of us. Big tract of land, though: what's important.
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
Fuck you, man! Suburbia ROOLS!
cat psychic/
lobsang rampa actually 'did' this in a book translated from the original 'meow.'
one of his more, uh, 'novel' approaches.
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
Atrios |
You're a funny sort of elitist
Did I say this already? ... haloscan ate it, I guess. My two cents:
Rowhouses like a perfectly sensible fine places to live. My daughter lives in one in Montreal - or at least, up to last week when she graduated. Her place was very run down at the edges, but with public transportation and a very walkable city. Consider yourself lucky as gas creeps toward $200 a barrel. As for the human scat, well it probably isn't different that the surprises that bear sometime leave in our neighborhood. Just don't step in it. We westerners need to rethink "home on the range." It doesn't work anymore.
montanaheadcold | 05.10.08 - 9:04 am | #
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
would we all fit into one?
Our "metro" area is probably about 150k, if you count dairy herds and NTodd
Gromit
The number of cattle and NTodd must be divided by 2/3rds.
i love the city.
i get a tremendous amount of reading/writing/sketching done on buses, subways, streetcars.
my work puts me on transit between 2 1/2 - 4 hours per day.
Bumper stickers at the tire shop this morning:
"Ban Republican Marriage"
"Practice Compassionate Impeachment"
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
they told me to go to philly
i said
no no no
small, eh Trifecta? We have a 1,090 sq ft cottage for 3 of us. Big tract of land, though: what's important.
el
Well, we do have 5 dogs including a St. Bernard, and 2 cats and the 4 of us. So our house can get a bit cramped at times.
"Ban Republican Marriage"
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heh.
how about this:
one child per republican family
One won episode for McCain
Divisive Obama advisor leaves
Fuck you, man! Suburbia ROOLS!
watertiger
How goes the hunt for commercial property in Phila?
Gromit, I would guess that Montpelier is one of the smallest state Capitols too.
"Ban Republican Marriage"
too late for that, I'm afraid. It's Jenna's big day.
just so it's clear:i'm not commanding you all to move to a philly row house
Atrios
it's cool man, city livin' is verr-nice
So the neocon editor of the NYT book review hired George Will to review Perlstein's NIXONLAND. No doubt all will be fair and balanced.
Oh, and Pinch the Dimwit and wifey are headed for divorce court.
thank god richard nixon is finally getting a fair shake.
those vietnamese in mass graves have been so unfair.
(at 38,000, Burlington is the largest city in the state, and by far the smallest of all largest cities in the state, if that makes any sense)
Winooski's 1 square mile.
How goes the hunt for commercial property in Phila?
at a leisurely pace (swamped at work right now). keeping an eye on Brooklyn, too.
Oh, and Pinch the Dimwit and wifey are headed for divorce court.
res ipsa loquitur
Can we blame it on Gays undermining marriage?
The good news is that MAYBE Will will actually read it...that was harder to type than say...more coffee
Gromit, I would guess that Montpelier is one of the smallest state Capitols too.
Ralphie
Yup, the smallest. State capitol building backs up to a wooded hillside with hiking trails.
Y'all should move up here. We have a Liberal immigration policy.
Only a few rowhouses, though.
the gays ruin almost as many things as reverend wright.
it's almost as if they are working in........tandem
Oh, and Pinch the Dimwit and wifey are headed for divorce court.
How much you wanna bet he even fucked up the settlement?
vermont sounds quite lovely
29th & cambridge? That's up by Marvin Harrison's bar.
Can we blame it on Gays undermining marriage?
Gimlet
More likely on Pinch getting his penis sucked by Judy Miller. The rest, as they say, is history ...
Y'all should move up here. We have a Liberal immigration policy.
I lived in Hanover,N.H. for 7 years. We were neighbors.
Winooski's 1 square mile.
sidhra
Are you coming up for sailmaking? Be sure to let me know if you are.
I believe they outlaw billboards in Vermont...
pinch's divorce may be as fun as Melon-Scaiffe's.
How much you wanna bet he even fucked up the settlement?
If she's smart she didn't ask for NYT shares in the pre-nup and opted for cold hard cash.
More likely on Pinch getting his penis sucked by Judy Miller. The rest, as they say, is history ...
res ipsa loquitur
So that was a conjugal visit when Judy was in the slammer?
BTW, Fairmount/Brewerytown is not a neighborhood. Fairmount is one neighborhood, Brewerytown another.
the pinch divorce thing is funny. "we will not discuss it further." It never occurs to someone like pinch that he's much more of a public figure than many of the people whose lives the times feels free to dissect for a million readers
at a leisurely pace (swamped at work right now). keeping an eye on Brooklyn, too.
watertiger | Homepage | 05.10.08 - 9:12 am | #
Look out for an opportunity to invest in one of those funds that are trying to empty buildings of rent controlled tenants. Nice folks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/
0...cySNQVbx2dPoDsQ
Rowhousing: All the aggravations of apartments for the price of a house.
I sure will let you know if I'm headed to New England's west coast!
I believe they outlaw billboards in Vermont...
Friend of mine made a small fortune making Vermont hand carved wood signs, with a router.
San Francisco really is some place special, isn't it?
A petition is being circulated that would put the measure up for a vote in November. If it passes, it will rename the city's Oceanside Treatment Plant for the 43rd president of the United States.
Republican Party spokesman Leo Lacayo said it's just another move from the "hate Bush crowd."
"First of all, it's insulting," Lacayo said. "Second of all, it demonstrates to what lows some people will reach in order to oppose this president and the policies that have kept this country safe during his mandate."
It never occurs to someone like pinch that he's much more of a public figure than many of the people whose lives the times feels free to dissect for a million readers
Atrios
We could e-mail David Broder. He's seems interested in these things.
Friend of mine made a small fortune making Vermont hand carved wood signs, with a router.
Wouldn't work with mine; I think the ethernet sockets wouldn't hold up.
It never occurs to someone like pinch that he's much more of a public figure than many of the people whose lives the times feels free to dissect for a million readers
do as i say, not as i do.
i hope she takes him for everything he's got . . . which, i understand, isn't all that much anymore.
how much did that new Times building cost again?
tells a LOT of what the military thinks of our bravest:
War dead cremated at facility for pets
Seattle Times - 5 hours ago
By Ann Scott Tyson WASHINGTON - The US military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of US service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended Friday when the Pentagon .
i hope she takes him for everything he's got . . . which, i understand, isn't all that much anymore.
She got the CPW apartment.
watertiger,
Do you want to take one for the team by wooing Pinch and getting him to reform his newspaper?
Only a few rowhouses, though.
Gromit
I really liked Montpelier, with it's miniature capitol. It felt like it was possible to relate to government there.
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Look out for an opportunity to invest in one of those funds that are trying to empty buildings of rent controlled tenants.
yeah, that's a fine, upstanding bunch of motherfuckers.
"First of all, it's insulting," Lacayo said. "Second of all, it demonstrates to what lows some people will reach in order to oppose this president and the policies that have kept this country safe during his mandate."
DWD - A Relic
Maybe honor him for all he has done by naming the facility at Guantanamo Bay after him.
Do you want to take one for the team by wooing Pinch and getting him to reform his newspaper?
why do you hate me?
Last time I was in the building, you could still wander from the street into the governor's office unchallenged and unscreened. Don't know if that's a good thing or not.
I really liked Montpelier, with it's miniature capitol. It felt like it was possible to relate to government there.
Not here. With the exception of possibly Barndog's House, Lansing has a Dome of Ignorance surrounding it. You have to penetrate it about mile 96 on I 96. You feel yourself losing your mind as you enter it. About Cedar Street in Holt it lifts and the feeling passes.
Do you want to take one for the team by wooing Pinch and getting him to reform his newspaper?
There are two shareholders who are making life a tad hellish for Pinch at the moment.
Pinch's solution to this problem will probably be to double the pages in the odious "Styles" section.
Or maybe he'll run a few more articles about how residents at the new Plaza condos are lonely because so many of their neighbors are using the places as pied-a-terres to be visited once a year when they fly in from Dubai to have their pictures taken in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
why do you hate me?
Don't; it's just that you're the best qualified.
Good morning.
Has anyone bitched about Atrios' ads yet?
It felt like it was possible to relate to government there.
Try a town meeting sometime.
Constable: " We need one of these radar detectors to catch speeders.
Selectman: " If you can find one that only detects flatlanders and not locals, I'll vote for it."
Don't tell the suburbanites how nice it is to live in a row house -- one block from the express subway!
Or maybe he'll run a few more articles about how residents at the new Plaza condos are lonely because so many of their neighbors are using the places as pied-a-terres to be visited once a year when they fly in from Dubai to have their pictures taken in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
More stories about "push" presents, please!
tigre, I remember someone writing that the surest sign a company is in trouble construction of a shiny new designer-architected HQ, See e.g., Time-Warner circa 1999.
yeah, that's a fine, upstanding bunch of motherfuckers.
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They are setting up the city for a major problem when all that debt defaults out. New York City has long needed a rapid "landlord death penalty" where repeated violations of code/standards or other misbehavior turns your building into a resident owned condo.
Best years of my life were spent in a rowhouse in lovely downtown Noho. It doesn't quite qualify as a city, but when Smith was in session, it felt a lot like the East Village, without the crime and smog. And I had a little garden in the back.
I've been here in the rural South for three years and the quietude is nice enough but I still miss the convenience of Noho. Could get everything you need and a fair amount of stuff you just wanted within six square blocks. It was a good lifestyle.
it's just that you're the best qualified.
define "best qualified"...
Best NYT article recently was the one that said that middle class people ought to pray that Wall Street didn't go bust because it was to our benefit to have billionaires by the tractor-trailer-full here.
construction of a shiny new designer-architected HQ,
guess that "special stock" held by the Sulzbergers will be used to wrap Big Macs.
define "best qualified"...
watertiger
You have breasts and you are within walking distance?
I can't believe SF would dare name a sewage treatment plant after Bush. Sewage treatment plants are useful. I would bet that plant has done more good for the world than Bush has.
define "best qualified"...
Sultry, sassy, smart, liberal and devious?
Any chance that Luca Brazzi will show up at the Godfather Bush wedding today?
I can't believe SF would dare name a sewage treatment plant after Bush.
Are they doing that? Really? That's funny.
Not here. With the exception of possibly Barndog's House, Lansing has a Dome of Ignorance surrounding it. You have to penetrate it about mile 96 on I 96. You feel yourself losing your mind as you enter it. About Cedar Street in Holt it lifts and the feeling passes.
DWD - A Relic
This made me laugh. I've never been to Lansing but you make passing through sound like an amusement ride. I almost want to go . . .
Oh, shit...the wedding!
for many years, nyc was a manufacturing center. the "art" and fancy loft apartment section of soho was filled with machine tool shops that were the foundation of industrial R&D business. the city, deliberately killed all that off to make room for rockefeller's dream of higher real-estate values.
Gromit,
Pinch's problem is that he's several generations removed from the source of the cash.
I don't think tigre can cure that particular ailment.
res, you see this one?
Top floor walk ups worth the climb.
And Philadelphians: note the prices asked for these apartments. Just don't gloat, okay?
Oh, shit...the wedding!
Gotta get dressed! And where did I put the invitation?
H. L. Mencken died in the Baltimore rowhouse he was born in.
You have breasts and you are within walking distance?
is this where i say: "They're real . . . and they're SPECTACULAR!"?
res, you see this one?
Indeed I did.
Next week in NYT Real Estate: "Why a flood-prone basement apartment in Garrison Beach makes a fantastic investment."
*checks for troll spoor*
Seems OK...
How can these relate to McStain, who married, and dines in, the lap of luxury?
is this where i say: "They're real . . . and they're SPECTACULAR!"?
watertiger
Only if pinch is sponge worthy.
And Philadelphians: note the prices asked for these apartments. Just don't gloat, okay?
watertiger
And in case of fire, thinking about the lower prices up top will just warm that little heart of yours.
Gotta get dressed! And where did I put the invitation?
The invitations were written on Zig-Zag papers.
afternoon moonbats
DON'T MOCK JENNA'S WEDDING, MOTHERFUCKERS!
"I think it's pretty easy. Obviously some neighborhoods are more problematic than others, but still."
my urban experience was mixed. shortly after i moved in i began to notice that my neighbors all had pieces of chain hanging down below the front grills of their cars. i eventually asked one why that was and he told me it was to thwart battery theft.
but other then occassionally having to vacate a passed out junky from my porch, it was mainly problem-free, except for the morning i found my jeep had been relieved of its doors.
the Inquirer is owned by a a suburban RE developer. so . . .
DON'T MOCK JENNA'S WEDDING, MOTHERFUCKERS!
What in the name of all plastics that are good and decent is that?
Always come down to the end game with trifecta. Currently 2 points separate us.
"write about Muslims peeing near rowhouses"-Inqy to Rick Santorum
DON'T MOCK JENNA'S WEDDING, MOTHERFUCKERS!
watertiger
Why is it being held in secret?
Is it because she's already in a family way and it's showing?
make that 25 ql.
good game
I should move to a walk up. That's gotta lower interest considerably among a certain segment of the population.
Those cups remind me of the coronation mugs that QEII gave to her subjects in 1953.
Divisive Obama advisor leaves
This is so fucking ridiculous.
According to the reports, Rob Malley interviewed Hamas officials, as well as Israeli, Palestinian, and other international officials, as research for reports he wrote for the International Crisis Group, a non-partisan conflict-resolution think tank.
Exploring non-violent conflict resolution. That's one of those peacenik Quaker ideas, innit? Can't have that shit taken seriously.
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finally beat Jen yesterday. She is vicious.
There are two general categories of purchasers: first-time home buyers with limited funds who are looking for a way to get into the market
Criminy they cost $400,000 !!!!
i've lost 6 games on scrabble lol
Why is it being held in secret?
Is it because she's already in a family way and it's showing?
oh, it's hardly "in secret".
finally beat Jen yesterday. She is vicious.
trifecta |
I'm gonna have to get in on some of that action sometime...
Bebe Rebozo owls.
Bush has brought democracy to Lebanon.
Lebanon's Cabinet had sought to rein in Hezbollah by ordering the removal of an airport security chief over alleged ties to militants and demanding the dismantling of the movement's private phone network.
Hezbollah seized the Sunni neighborhoods of Beirut after its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Thursday accused the U.S.-backed government of "declaring war" on the militant group.
Along with seizing neighborhoods, militants also have shut Lebanon's airport by barricading the road leading to it. The seaport also was closed.
The Shiite fighters' swift success dramatically empowered the hand of the Hezbollah-led opposition in the bitter political struggle with pro-Western factions over who will guide the country.
The rout of government supporters also was a blow for Washington, which has long considered Hezbollah a terrorist group and condemns its ties to Syria and Iran. The Bush administration has been a strong supporter of Saniora's government and its army the last three years.
make that 25 ql.
good game
trifecta
&*^$%
and for good measure
Fuck you.
I love the mugs. They're so tasteless. I hope the knockoff artists flood the market with them.
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I didn't really worry too much about where the homeless peed in Berkeley. It was the junkies who regularly ransacked our vehicles that really bummed me out. We also had a robbery-murder and quite a few ordinary muggings within two blocks of my house in the 12 years I lived there. And practically every house on our block was plundered at least once, including ours. That sort of thing is a lot less commonplace here, you can't deny it. And it's just the math of density. Good neighborhoods in the middle of the city have exactly the same high rate of street crime. Density has many virtues, but it comes at a price.
I have fond memories of parties in my 'Airlite' rowhouse in Fairmount that hosted 100 people.
All standing, or squeezing by one another to join another cluster of people, but that's what made them successful parties.
City living is only 'harder' for people who are unfamiliar with it, having grown up in the suburbs being taught to be afraid of, or to look down on, the Big Bad City.
From our South Philly rowhouse:
We can walk to the grocery store, the stadiums, any of probably 100 restaurants, and my bank (and Starbucks if we were so inclined).
We have no yard tying us down each weekend, but do have a lilac bush, a japanese maple, and about 80 plants in our courtyard.
We can be in Center City in ten minutes by bus or subway (that's mrs. round guy's commute).
We can be at the airport in ten minutes (my commute).
The city trash takes ANYTHING! including one time 26 contractor bags of plaster lath, wood and smashed bathroom (we had to rehab a bit).
Our rowhouse would easily hold 80 people per floor.
Our lifestyle allowed us to drive less than 5,000 combined miles last year (pretty much all leisure by the by).
Yeh, city living sure is hard sometimes.
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