- Joe Walsh

Dibs on sloppy seconds!

Helen Mirren was on the British Top Gear and drove around their track & as I remember did not have a terrible time.

Keith Moon wasn’t a bear? 

Interesting, thanks for the tip! Thankfully we’re in a loop where the typical order of events is that they send their little informants around the neighborhood (love that quarterly lookout when someone just stops in front of my house to take a picture from their car), complain, then we remind them that it’s a…

I’ve heard that the way to get the HOA to back down is to submit an application to build a ginormous HAM radio antenna-which they are not legally allowed to block you from doing. Then imply that you might be able to back down on the antenna thing if they could chill out about the flag.

Mr. BK and I live in a small one-bedroom apartment with three cats, and my husband is a bit of a hoarder, so we don’t have any room. But if it’s 100 degrees at night in your bedroom, you shove things around to make room for a queen-sized mattress in the living room, where the blessed AC is.

Since hot air rises, move your mattress to the floor; it will be cooler there than up on your bed frame.

I like Seinfeld, but I didn’t recognize your quote.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that...

In addition to what other people have said, I like being able to see people’s favorite books when I visit their house. It often leads to discovering common interests we hadn’t previously known about, or finding new and interesting books.

“How to display your books like a more sophisticated adult.”

Of course, that’s still ethically fraught

A fellow named Alistair Cooke had a collection of books about the U.S. and had trouble organizing it. Eventually he hit on the system of positioning the books in a pattern corresponding to the general geographic locations of the states they discussed: Texas in the bottom-middle, New York in the upper-right, Hawaii way…

Note to self: when writing stories set in this era of U.S. history, "sophisticated" means "superficial" when it comes to "artifacts" of "the Before Times" like books.

Consider this wild idea: Arranging your books like they are actual BOOKS with CONTENT that you’re actually interested in: By subject and then author!

Suggestion: do this with empty cereal boxes instead.

Okay, Melvil Dewey. How does your organizational method ensure your books are read more frequently? Is a messy looking bookcase a sign of literacy? Very 827.9!

This only makes sense if a book’s sole value to you is its decorating potential based on the colour of its spine :(

top floor south 7x6 window in the living room. tinted window film. dropped the temp drastically. this year i’m getting the reflecting stuff.

I use a tower fan pointed right at me.