The internet can and will make you fat, as does justice. Why, just after reading that they caught Ethan Couch last night, I ate a celebratory grilled cheese and then later gained forty pounds.

Can I just say I really admire your maturity about this? Also,

Result: Congrats! This Aspen retreat will upset you the most.

Spot on, baby. SPOT. ON. {Sob. Why can’t I live in the Colorado mountains??????? I don’t even need to be rich or in Aspen!!!}

So this should be a fun comments section.

Regarding developers- I knew of an Iraqi guy in Northern VA during the boom who was designing houses to look like Saddam Hussein’s palaces- incredibly gawdy mixes of multiple architectural styles, he would take a property, McMansionize it to Iraqi design ideas, then sell it for basically a loss to keep his other…

I’m a bit of a cynic (thus Diogenes as my avatar), so I feel that even though 80/20 housing is the way to go, it’ll never happen. It’s another case of “I got mine, fuck you.” We have economically depressed neighborhoods in every city in the nation, and undoubtedly 80/20 would be in the best interest of pretty much…

Seattle too. I remember my apartment hunt, my price range was rather low and there were SOOO many micro units. $1400 for 250 sqft... $2000 for 300... so ridiculous. Who pays that?

Seriously, microunits would be a great idea if they were priced fairly. I live in a 550 sq ft studio in Chicago and pay market rates. They’re building ~300sq ft places near my neighborhood, and they’re charging $1200 + util., which is WAY higher than market rate (a studio is ~$850 or so here).

My sister: I’m thinking of getting Elf on the Shelf for the kids, what do you think?

I distinctly remember calling 911 when I was about 4 or 5 years old. I think we’d had a lesson in preschool/kindergarten about making a 911 call if there was an emergency, but I don’t remember that. I just remember coming home from school that day and my mom saying to me, in that tone that says you damn well better…

Someone needs to tell that fucking elf that snitches get stitches and end up in ditches.

The cops still came to the house to check on Isabella and found her freaking out. “She was hysterical crying, she was panicking,”

There are a lot of...interesting...developers out there.

I work in NYC development and told one of my developers yesterday (for like the bazillionth time) that if I were to build, I would make a building of only studios. You get the most for price per square foot. His eyes widened as if he had never realized this before. It was such a face palm moment for me.

But, even if baited, Chris Martin shouldn’t be consciously coupling his car with another human.

So how much does the second apartment cost? That’s the one where you keep your dishes and the chairs that go around that table, and the leaves for the dining table, etc. If you convert the desk into a table, you have to put the ‘desk stuff’ on the floor, or maybe in the shower? Once the coffee table gets lifted and…

This is stupid, and certainly not the answer. One: End rent control. It drives the price up for the market rate units quite a bit. Two: rip down the MASSIVE amounts of public housing and build taller and denser market rate developments. NYC, and in fact most cities, has way too much tax exempt land. The theory that…

7 people sit on top of the table.

Thanks for the recommendations, it’s very much appreciated. Although there are good things to be found in YA fantasy too. Currently I’m rereading UK LeGuin’s Earthsea series and I find so much more in it now than when I was a teen. If only the library ladies didn’t give me weird looks when they see me browsing the…

And the thing is, they can still imply the violence without wallowing in it, if you know what I mean. You can understand that brutality happened without actually showing it. What they need to tone down is the constant wallowing in the violence. Just because they are HBO and can wallow without censorship, doesn’t mean…