The Perfect $100,000 House, by Karrie Jacobs. Chronicles a road trip across the country and back in search of an affordable modernist home, as the housing bubble was building toward its peak. I learned from this book how to tell good modernism from bad modernism: modernist architecture doesn’t have trim to hide [...]
I was wondering why I didn’t like granite countertops. Well, polished granite reminds me of headstones, and headstones remind me of death. Now, multiply that by a few million granite countertops, plus the second-order effects of dreary paint and accessory colors, and the state of the economy starts to make sense. Death [...]
From the Star Tribune. I was Minnesota Nice again, and didn’t fill out their business reply card with what I really think of their newspaper, and send it back. But now I have some creative ideas for the next one….
They’re so desperate for subscribers that they call us up about once a month. I always tell MFH to tell them that if they want us to subscribe, they should stop printing hate speech against my identity group (conservatives), because I find some in every issue I read, but he’s too polite to. [...]
The CPSIA just keeps getting worse and worse: now all children’s books printed before 1985 are to be considered unsafe and not resold; there may be lead in the pigments. (I’ve read that the law is so broadly worded that libraries may also be affected, depending on the interpretation of “distribute”.) Ballpoint [...]
We are going to have another baby. Sometime next April. On purpose.
So I’ve been having morning sickness, not too bad, about the same as last time. But I have a terrible lack of energy. I lie around all day reading, until OLC demands to go to the playground right outside. [...]
I’ve been reading too many doctor blogs lately, and more than once I’ve come across this little line:
“You’d want anesthesia for your appendectomy, why wouldn’t you want it in childbirth?”
They must teach it in med school or something. Now a variation of it appears in this article. Argh. Well, might as well [...]
I don’t add blogs to my blogroll lightly, but I think it’s time to add Ann Althouse. Even though I often don’t agree with her (on feminism, for example), I read her blog almost every day, and can respect where she’s coming from. Also, she’s gotten quite the anti-fan club (hate club?) [...]
…..have I mentioned lately how caring, loving, funny, foofy, and cute my husband is? More than worth the long wait for him.
You can tell the real hard-core feminists by their candy dishes full of emergency contraception pills. And how they keep repeating the line, “Pregnancy begins with implantation, not with conception.” Technically that’s true, but that new little life in there, the one they don’t want to think about, started at conception.
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