- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
- Linkity from BookWyrmKnits.
- Some great bookish quotes compiled by BookWyrmKnits.
- Learn about “the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun”, which makes for far more interesting reading than you’d suspect.
- Some more good literary analysis of LotR.
- A good ficlet that I can’t easily describe.
- “Our town’s libraries“.
- A book of official knitting patterns from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood comes out in a month.
- A squirrel that has multicolored fur, and one of the colors is blue?!
- Hoarding insanity: Collyers’ Mansion.
- Giant ‘Cheetos’ statue.
- NASA’s “Galaxy of Horrors” posters.
- “Every song in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, ranked“.
- The strange fame of a store mannequin in the 1930s.
- “A famous Cornell University marketing professor’s fake-research empire crumbl[ed] as soon as anyone actually looked at his methods“.
- Cute “Halloween” dragon.
- Doesn’t really give me a castle house vibe.
- This one doesn’t, either – it’s more of a British summer estate sort of thing.
- Castle bedroom.
- Lovely cottage.
- Vintage round house.
- The outside is more over-the-top than the inside.
- Absolutely one-of-a-kind.
- Does it come with the pipe organ?
- For LEGO-lovers only.
- “Flintstones'” house.
- A “converted” doctor’s office. Conversion FAIL.
- Definitely looks like a bordello.
- Decisions were made.
- Interesting way to market the house, but the added people make it look small.
- Yikes.
- Ankle breaker.
- So dangerous.
- Stairs should not be made out of drywall.
- Must have good balance to live there.
- You’d need perfect balance and strong nerves to use that bike ramp.
- A very good question.
- Is a one-vertical-blind-wide window really worth it?
- That’s quite a commitment to Halloween decorating.
- So’s this.
Harry’s usual look of skepticism.
Polly on the spiffy new kitty mixtape scratcher, with bonus Harry’s tail.
Harry and Polly drowsing on my lap.
The Halloween houses are great! Especially that one with the facade.
Thanks for the links! And thanks for the LOTR discussion. That really hit home for me, and explained the dissatisfaction I have with (some) modern epic fantasy. “The prevailing attitude right now is that you can’t call your story nuanced if you know who your bad guys are.” That right there explains so much and is so annoying.
I love the ficlet about the ghost trees! And the comic panels of libraries. (I can’t decide which library is my favorite.) I’d never seen the NASA horror posters before! Those are really cool. Also: crow dragon! So cute. 😀
There are so many castle houses showing up lately. It’s weird. The one I like best of today’s lot is the attic bedroom. That one was neat.
The “Little Free LEGO Library” is an interesting twist on LFLs. Eeeeeeww, that doctor’s office home conversion is one of the worst I’ve seen—possibly even worse than the prison one. I had not expected an installment of “stairs that will kill you” to include a bike path. Wow.
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Flintstones house – where’s the room where you run past the same window seventeen times?
I do not wonder if it comes with a pipe organ, I wonder if it comes with a lifetime supply of Windex.
Drywall stairs reminds me of my landlords after the ’89 quake here in SF. My 1890s apartment has plaster/lath walls, and one of them had a roughly 1 ft diameter chunk of plaster fall out, but the lath was intact. Should have been a relatively easy re-plastering job.
I came home from work a few days later, and there was a 3 ft square patch, with a weird texture.
I peeled back a corner (that should be hint right there) and found out it was about 1/4 inch thick flexible foam. The other side was a picture, and I recognized it as a posters from a bus shelter.
I told my landlady that it was not acceptable, and I had taken it down and thrown it away. She got furious “You don’t know that that isn’t a building material.” I reminded her that I was a property insurance underwriter.
The next day I came home, and they’d replaced it with a half a sheet of drywall – about 4ftx5ft. For what was originally a 1 ft hole, that could have been patched with plaster, since the lath was intact.
OMG that ficlet was amazing! Seriously amazing. I’d read a whole book of that. It was so fresh and interesting. Blew. My. Mind.
And I loved the word history link. I was talking to someone today about English and we both agreed – English is weird. Fascinating, but weird ????
And Harry and Polly are so cute ??
Holy f those stairs