Not so weird, tommyrot -- you love androgyny!

funny grace/dress xpost. then my laptop battery died. am waiting for Coraline to start....

Remember those Grace Jones / Adam Ant ads? What were they selling? Scooters?

Huh. I can hear the sweeping sound starting around 18.

I'm kinda hoping this one is as neat as it sounds: [link]

Especially the wood under carpet. It's 1949, so. And I hope if I like it, they accept less. And the kitchen isn't as teeny as it looks. Or it isn't teeny.

Ahrg. We'll see. I have a whole list I sent to the realtor. I can see this whole project being very stressful for me.

Grace Jones and Adam Ant for Honda Scooters

I remember a moment in middle school music class where, after some singing, the music teacher took me aside and played a couple of notes on the piano. She asked me to tell her which note was a higher pitch and I told her that they were exactly the same. It marked the end of my musical aspirations which was okay since I didn't have any.

My mother had a similar moment, though in her case it spelled the end of her aspirations to become a nun. She seemed to have come to terms with it by the time I met her.

DH got a decent annual raise and a pretty generous bonus today.

If he's not a director for Citigroup, I'd say enjoy it.

Have I said, "Fuck John Bolton" before? I believe I have.

For some reason, I first thought you meant Michael Bolton. Though I suppose then you'd have said "Let Michael Bolton touch you there".

Grace Jones wearing a dress would be even more noteworthy. (She says feminine clothes make her look like a drag queen, so she never does it.)

That actually kind of explains the clear plastic dress.

I'm kinda hoping this one is as neat as it sounds: [link]

That place is really cute! I wonder if they are basically the same as my friend's place on the next street up? If so, they're small but nicely organized space.

Cute house!

But, I just saw this and feel I should pass it on to anyone who's thinking about buying a house right now. There's a really interesting chart there that shows how the historical stats of housing prices, housing costs, population, and interest rates have trended in the past 100 years. The huge jump since 1995 is startling, and the subsequent fall shows we're nowhere near getting back to the basepoint that has been rather consistently hewn to in the past century.

This guy is predicting general housing prices in the country will fall another fifty percent (!!) before they hit bottom.

What vintage is your friend's? There are 40s rowhouses and some yellow brick places opposite (bless google streetview) that look more like your floorplan (which I'd love but suspect is out of my reach.) I just don't want similar sq footage to what I have (7something) in 2 bedrooms.