Mansion Musings
I love looking at homes. I suppose I inherited this tendency from my mother who also loves a good open house adventure ... ideas, different floor plans, etc. Our favorite homes to explore were the older homes with character, as my mother calls it. One of her dreams was to purchase a large Victorian style house and turn [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 18:02:00
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Where to get Sinks?
Planning for a house renovation soon, like kitchen or bathroom updates? If so, you need to check out faucet.com for different designs and styles of faucets, sinks and other accessories. They have wide ... , Victorian, and many others. Give them a visit now and who knows you will find the one you are looking for. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 00:19:10
The Concept of Non-Ownership (by Phila)
I've been thinking lately about the form that architecture takes in an economy based on land speculation rather than, say, industrial productivity ... would have their sovereign acre of prairie (and a Wright house planted squarely on it), to Frank Gehry ... . Is there a certain type of building, or building style, that becomes dominant during a real [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 16:49:43
1979: January 13-19
Not just bunging on an act! Cop Shop's Detective Danni Francis spends her time putting criminals behind bars, ... . Sesame Street Australian-style Children's TV programming could receive a boost with plans for a big-budget locally produced series this year. Great Treasures Marketing, a book distribution house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 04:21:00
Catching Up
Read Peter Hitchens only in the Mail on Sunday This week, I'll limit myself to responding to the debates which have carried on while I've been travelling. I'm afraid it's physically impossible to answer every point and every contributor, but I hope to deal with most of the questions raised. How do I select the contributions to which I respond? [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 12:14:09
A two part post: Year in Recap/Mid Century Modern, Cliff May and Me
Whew...what a year! And what a day is today!I hope to later insert links to some of the events that are mentioned in this recap.. ... , and immediately begin to look for work closer to our families. Our house gets prepped for selling; life ... have worked a little harder on that though!)July: We both find jobs in...Salt Lake City! PTL! We put the house [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 02:50:00
children s wallpaper
‘children s wallpaper’ FREE DOWNLOAD AND SETUP Seven’s O’Keefe in drunken video scandal O’Keefe’s job not on the line Video: ... decorated almost entirely in the Victorian style, one can understand why. She and her husband, Craig Johnson , a doctor of audiology,… Victorian look for a traditional house - read more As the real [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 13:54:44
it's a good day
Some of you may remember a while back me going off on the city approving the demolition of a house that had seen better days ... the typical Mediterranean style home commonly found in the newer developments on the outer fringes ... funny. I wonder if they even tried? The curious can check out the thwarted plans here.What follows [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 20:40:00
Why Obama's Futurama Can Wait
Schools and Hospitals Should Come First in Any Stimulus Package By Mike Davis America's "Futurama" is defunct ... of Victorian rubble. As we wait in potholed gridlock for the next highway bridge to collapse, the French ... or two, Spain's high-speed rail network will become the world's largest, with plans to cap [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 16:18:59
Christmas Spirit
Starting this past weekend we catapulted ourselves into the Christmas season. It actually began a bit on Saturday night, when we got our tree.Sunday morning I stumbled out of the bedroom to feed Tiny and saw snow on the ground outside our house. I fed Tiny (because he would not have allowed otherwise) and then ran back into the bedroom [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 20:00:00
Reprise 2008
A return to the return to blogging. So, since I last ventured here on June 16, I have been doing things. And now you will be told all about them ... of Guam and their resistance to the US military build-up on their land (currently there are plans ... and her husband Angelo Spencer played a gig at the Northcote Uniting Church, so I sat on the floor [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 22:30:00
Florida Bed and Breakfasts - Without Breaking the Budget
by Jane Leisteiner Your New Year’s resolution to save money shouldn’t come at the expense of your travel plans ... . Francis Inn. The beach and other local attractions are a short ride away. Amenities include a full ... for home-cooked meals. The Cottage suite is perfect for sharing the cost of a room with friends. Free [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:27:19
Florida Bed and Breakfasts - Without Breaking the Budget
by Jane Leisteiner Your New Year’s resolution to save money shouldn’t come at the expense of your travel plans ... House Inn should be on your list. A day at the beach is definitely in the cards here with complimentary ... in historic St. Augustine, has the perfect solution with the Cottage Suite. If you are enjoying a romantic [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:25:54
No Time like the Present: Repurposing Christmas Decorations
It may be a new year, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to salvage from the old one! ... , and plans ahead. So today I thought I'd show you a few of the post-Christmas sale finds I'd gotten ... seemed just right at home in my house...Here are a couple of purple and silver tree-topper-type stars [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 12:00:00
Square Today, Octagon Tomorrow
Orson Squire Fowler was determined to be a preacher. At the tender age of 17 he walked 400 miles from his small town of Cohocton, New York to Massachusetts so that he might be tutored in the ways of the ministry. When Fowler enrolled in Amherst he made fast friends with another minister-to-be, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 04:45:17
Design your dream home with Wickersham Building and Development!
Wickersham Building and Development is a premier quality home builder located in Chester County, ... Philadelphia area. They have built everything from Post and Beam farmhouse-style homes in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania to Victorian recreations in prestigious Rockford Park, Wilmington. Their in-house [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 14:39:13
When a only a real carriage (or custom) door will do…
I love older homes, and am particularly fond of Craftsman and Prairie style homes. But, I do love modern as well as Victorian ... to incorporate every little thing I loved into one house in a remodel I’d probably get committed by someone for having my house look like it was built for a madman. But, I digress [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 01:19:11
Not Your Mother’s Wedding
Ed Wang chose August 8 to propose to Tara Prigge, because in numerology, 8-8 represents prosperity and luck. Months later, invitations to their wedding in Washington, D.C., carried the “double happiness” symbol. But that was about as Chinese as the couple envisioned their nuptials to be [more...]
Date: 2008-07-04 09:05:34
Simple Woman Monday, September 22nd
Peggy at The Simple Woman hosts this lovely excuse for visiting kindred spirits ... curriculum, due to a change in her schooling plans this year. Though we think the homeschool co-op we started on is a fabulous option, we're finding out that it's really cramping our style. We all decided [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 08:59:00
Burning The Midnight Oil
No literally, I’m writing this late at night, and wondering just how many people have really given thought to how they will see at night. Whether you are preparing for a couple days of power outages due to an event such as an ice-storm, or some longer-term emergency, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 17:45:32
Thus I Chuse
Jenny Thornton had not allowed herself much time to ponder the exigencies of the situation—for, after all, weren’t the nervousness and anticipation brought on by such great changes best embodied by their very mystery?–but she really had expected it to be more exciting. Not that it wasn’t, of course [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 20:40:37
Curse of the perfectionist as novelist
Last year, I wrote a novel called "The Husband Habit," and sold it to St. Martin's Press for publication in the spring/summer of 2009 ... now. Same name. Different look, job, house, temperament. Much different voice. Much more grownup ... reflect this growth. The second is less about style [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 22:46:00
No. 189 - Winston House
Winston House1889 – Joseph Cather Newsom1407 Carroll Avenue – mapDeclared: 5/3/78Joseph Cather Newsom built this house in 1889 for John B ... is the Victorian butler’s pantry in the dining room.”I like this house real well, and it’s one of my favorites ... separates the two front parlors, each of which contain two Victorian mantelpieces with decorative [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 04:25:00
Sambodian Sun Sets on British Empire
And the Latin ladies admired him And under their smiles dartled the daggers of despair–William Carlos William, “Adam” ... district of São Paulo, just off the Av. Teodoro Sampaio – named for the eminent Victorian engineer ... public house. The gloomy, rain-soaked ambiance is right, for example, but the hothouse temperature [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 15:53:08
Scottsdale: Reader Review :: The Four Seasons Scottsdale is Just Right
MaMaison Riverside Hotel in Prague. Over in Europe, we just realized there are two hotel chains that have very similar names--MaMaison and MalMaison. The latter we are familiar with as we have written about their funky boutique hotels (one is out of an old jailhouse) located all over the UK. But MaMaison had us intrigued [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 15:36:06
COVERSATIONS WITH READERS!
CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS REFERENCE: THE DAJA VU ARTICLE -- A LOOK BACK TO SEE AHEAD! James R. Fisher, Jr. © December 10, 2008 “Our best conjectures as to the true spring of actions themselves are all we know from history. That Caesar was murdered by twenty-four conspirators, I doubt not, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 16:28:00
IS TESCO BECOMING A MECCA FOR COMPENSATION CLAIMANTS ?
Looks like any normal Tesco supermarket distribution depot, the one pictured above in Lichfield, Staffordshire, UK , doesn’t it? But a Muslim who worked there is suing Tesco for compensation on the grounds of religious discrimination. And why ? Because he was asked to carry crates of alcohol as part of his job [more...]
Date: 2008-09-28 23:02:14
Inside a Sears Home
I recently spent a weekend in Cape May, New Jersey with a group of friends ... , ornate Victorians. I had not properly prepared myself, however, for the onslaught of Victorian-clad ... design their own homes as well and submit their plans to Sears. The company would cut the pieces [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 21:56:08
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: An article from 1967
The Messengers The cover on a new LP album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a photomontage of a crowd gathered round a grave. And a curious crowd it is: Marilyn Monroe is there, so are Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Liston, and eight Beatles.Eight? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 11:13:00
The full New-Age treatment
As any single woman in this town could well sympathise, I’ve been in a bit of a poo. When I look around these days, at the assorted clots, weeds and Chris Martin-style wimps ... Havisham-style old bag, covered in cobwebs and sitting amidst the crumbs of an uneaten wedding feast [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 03:57:00
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
It's not often that our real life science heroes utter disparaging remarks against science fiction. In fact, the opposite is usually true; science fiction is often cited as a source of inspiration and interest. Enter Buzz Aldrin, who caused a stir recently with some comments he made [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 07:28:56
2009 plans and resolutions
Read more fairy tales! Because fairy tales are like life, but better! Go to Las Vegas ... descendant. I must get over my bullshit and go out there, before it’s too late! Remodel the house ... into a dollhouse - now it’s time to get to the rest of the house! My oh my, what shall I do… [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 17:26:59
Interview with Hannah Higgins
hannahhigginsinterview by jeff abellDick Higgins, Danger Music No. 17, 1962. Photo by Mercedes Vostell. Courtesy the Estate of Dick Higgins.Hannah Higgins' book, Fluxus Experience, was published by University of California Press in 2002. At a time when most art historians follow the poststructuralist model of "everything is text," [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:45:00
The Lizard People!
My work as an historioranter occasionally leads me to visit some of the loonier extremes of the Internet - the chat rooms with the padded walls and such - but one ballot cast in Minnesota during the latest election sent me further into the weirdness than did even Apocalypse 2012! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 02:29:19
New Governor Divulges Gubernatorial Pets, Promises To Open Mansion Doors to the Public
December 30, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) — While Americans await the arrival of the nation’s First Dog to move in with the Obama family, ... ambiance of the state’s 1891 Victorian-style Governor’s Mansion in Raleigh.Carroll Leggett, author ... the inauguration when the new governor plans to “throw the doors of the Executive Mansion in the afternoon [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 23:22:32
Screen Bites
what most of us already know: Fanboys are in revolt over 20th Century Fox’s legal brawl with Warner Bros. over the movie rights to Watchmen. Some are even threatening to boycott Fox films like The Day the Earth Stood Still and, yes, even X-Men Origins: Wolverine [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 12:48:00
Florida Bed and Breakfasts - Without Breaking the Budget
by Jane Leisteiner Your New Year’s resolution to save money shouldn’t come at the expense of your travel plans ... trips to the ocean. The rates vary from $130-$265 per night. The Coombs House Inn in Appalachicola ... at $229, the Coombs House Inn should be on your list. A day at the beach is definitely in the cards here [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 13:22:38
Note to Obama: 'Futurama' Has to Wait Its Turn
Schools, HospitalsCome First inStimulus PackageBy Mike DavisAmerica's "Futurama" is defunct ... , the Japanese, and now the Spanish blissfully speed by us on their sci-fi trains. Within the next year or two, Spain's high-speed rail network will become the world's largest, with plans to cap [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 04:27:00
Special Report: VoIP war stories from the Australian front
It took the direct intervention of Cisco CEO John Chambers to resolve issues when Victoria's Timboon and District Healthcare service first deployed ... hospital worldwide," says Victorian South West Alliance of Rural Health (SWARH) IT director, Garry Druitt [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 00:00:01
Life in the Brooks House 1872-2008
One of the things that struck me when first coming here as a tourist was the Brooks House tower. I've always loved towers, so fairy-tale reminding. And with the Dickens era feeling of downtown during the holidays, with snow swirling in the wind, I fell in love with Brattleboro. Some years later, I moved here [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 14:35:00
Harris School
It sits like a mausoleum on the 800 block of Southard Street, ... to be surrounded by other cement structures of a 1950's or 60's style and they included the MARC house ... in the Harris building. That clearly didn't happen:There were plans aired to hand the building over [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 05:01:00
Custom-Built Homes
.fullpost{display:inline;}I love to browse on house floor plans online ... . In American style architecture I am quite partial to Frank Lloyd's Wright Prairie Houses. Wright's rule ... . Various companies have different styles and approaches in making their designs and floor plans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:26:00
Fall Into Me
Fall Into Me Posted in Reviews, Anime at 11:20 am by reversethieves Every season tend to have it’s own flavor and for better or for worse they tend to have a a bunch of show with similar themes and motifs. This is just the way TV works. This fall the in thing is supernatural action. 7(?) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 15:20:32
Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin Civic Center
click photo for full-size imagephoto by Donald Kinneyclick photo for full-size imagephoto by Donald Kinneyclick photo for full-size imagephoto by ... the various phases of construction, including plans for a fabulous conference center that never got ... about his work in House Beautiful.House Beautiful carried an article about some of Frank Lloyd Wright's [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 13:02:00
The Serpent’s Tooth
The Serpent’s ToothJessica Darago and Gladys Hi everyone, This is Marie-Claude. We are right in the midst of the American Title V competition now with the contestants trying to get as many votes as possible. Edie is handing flyers to local merchants, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 11:00:25
More room on top - lack of space brings in the doubledecker grave
The disturbance of human remains in burial grounds is to be allowed for the first time since the early Victorian era to deal with a shortage of ... of re-using graves would be a doubledecker-style approach, by lifting existing remains, deepening [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 14:37:54
Upcoming 2009 Releases — Part Two
Back in August, I posted an article HERE that showcased Upcoming 2009 Book Releases. That spotlight really only scratched the surface of what 2009 had to offer though, so now I’m back with Part Two, which is a little bigger, and hopefully, better. So enjoy, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 08:01:00
Russel Wright House and Studio, East 48th St
In my last blog entry, I mentioned a possible connection between architect William Lescaze’s house on East 48th Street and designer Russel Wright’s house on the same street. Geographically, the connection is closer than I’d imagined – Lescaze lived and worked at 211 East 48th St, while Russel and Mary Wright lived at 221 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 11:58:00
BIRMINGHAM AND THE WEST MIDLANDS ‘OPEN UP’ FOR 2012 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD LAUNCH
A spectacular sound and light show; MOBO award winning artist, Soweto Kinch; 100 young dancers; and music from Orchestra of the Swan, ... with other monuments within the Ironbridge Gorge, will be illuminated in spectacular style on both Friday [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 14:43:02
Columbia South Carolina's weekly top 10 to do
Columbia South Carolina's weekly top 10 to do ... to begin making plans for sparkling wine! Whether for New Year's Eve or to celebrate Christmas, Friday ... of your Friday night plans for this drop-in tasting. Cost is $5/person ($2.50 for wine club members). Visit [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 20:20:43
