- "70's Futurist" Artist Turned Green Architect/Planner: Roger Dean is back
- Craigslist Los Angeles: Unbelievable ad looking for a roommate (2 people sent us this!)
- Neo Gardens: Bridgit Martin wants to bring gardening to the masses
- Good Wood: Furniture and Objects From Sustainable Material
- Animated gif museum: is what it is...
- Neckface Book: "very limited edition book is full of images of Neckface in action"
- The Natural Paint Book: "Julia Lawless, offers an in-depth explanation of the differences between conventional and eco-effective paints"
- morning craft: From "a fan of the cute pillows"
- Urilift retractable cubicles: Toilets which rise out of the ground
- Thin/k furniture: Nothing is "as thin as Teruhiro Yanagihara's (Isolation Unit) Think/k furniture"
- Google Maps: Now with satellite imagery
Writer's Almanac:
- On this day in 1887, teacher Annie Sullivan taught her blind and deaf student Helen Keller that the spelled-out letters "W-A-T-E-R" meant the liquid that flowed out of the pump.
- "In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never To Forget You And I Never Did," by Alberto Rios
For those of you suffering from withdrawal symptoms over that CL ad, you might want to spend you morning (and possibly your whole day) reading through these gems. The latest post is about shelves so it is somewhat within context.
www.craigslist.org/about/best/
That roommate ad is outrageous. Gee, wonder why he's single?!
FREAK.
I'm surprised he didn't post on April 1.
French Urdu and Afirkaans? ( I speak 2 of these thus the nerve that got struck)
No magazines or newspapers?
He's worried about the gloss yet asks for your fav. author implying he will allow books.
There is just so much wrong with this ad...
Low rent isn't everything.
That ad can't be real. I think it was his monthly upholstery session in utter silence that got me.
Actually, I think he EPITOMIZES "low rent"!
Plus, between the language references you mention, coupled with his anti-spice list, I think he is dangerously flirting with fair housing issues...
My office mate and I were just imagining the kind of hell an Afrikaans-speaker cooking dill potato salad using a recipe from a glossy magazine would cause in his life. Esp. on upholstery Tuesday.
At least he's telling everyone up front?!? I guess my real question is... why doesn't he just want to live alone? If the money doesn't matter enough that you're willing to pay me to leave the house on upholstery day and you're knocking down my rent 'cause you're willing to admit that you're restricting my life in a crazy way... why not just live alone? Please? Go buy yourself a second dog to breed with your border colllie so you don't feel so lonely and stop trying...
Does anyone else want to sign him up for bad magazines? Is it just me?
That is hilarious!
Ruth, my dad speaks Afrikaans (although he's probably very rusty now). I could give him a recipe for potato salad with dill, and we can see what wacky hijinks ensue.
Very realistic. I agree with Ruth. He had me until the upholstery bit. This sounds like one of those humor pieces they run on the back page of The New Yorker. Did anyone see the "more reasons to think Abraham Lincoln was gay" by Paul Rudnick that ran a few weeks ago?
I love the fact that he offers a handbook. Obviously looking for the ultimate bendy-twisty submissive roommate. A shrink of my acquaintance says that most surgeons are repressed sadists--looks like this guys leaking around the seams
OK, everyone play with google maps now! Type in your adress, zoom in, drag the map around and click on the satellite link on the top right hand corner then drag around some more.
For those who know where the Target store on 20th Ave in Queens is, go there and be as slightly amused as I was.
Do you think they've prepared all their Targets to be correctly identified from space?
I was walking to work and remembered that piece about upholstering on every third Tues and burst out laughing. For some reason, that particular bit just hits my funny bone.
I'm very sad that the roommate posting was removed; it's no longer avaialble at Craigslist. Anyone still have a cached version who'd be willing to repost it?
If the listing was removed because he got a roomie, look for it to be reposted the third Wednesday of the month... the morning after their first "silent upholstery night" goes horribly awry...
I'm having trouble keeping a straight face just reading the phrase "silent upholstery night".