Time Capsule: July 2004

House cleaning is more fun when you have old newspapers laying around. Take this example of a USA Today (I must have hauled it back from a work trip because I’ve never spent actual money on a copy): it’s from 2004, and we dug it up in a fit of summer cleaning a [...]

Kanye’s House: Desirable?

Kanye’s house is up for sale. You can take a virtual tour here.

My reading: It’s a cool house if you like every room to look like a concrete garage with art and toys on the walls instead of anything useful, and if you never understood why anyone would want to waste space on a kitchen. [...]

We’re Serious About Health, but the Photographer Isn’t

This wasn’t supposed to be funny or scandalous. I wonder if anyone else even noticed it. But I have to ask: since when is Seriousness About Health represented by a woman running up steps with both of her butt cheeks hanging out of her shorts?

This banner, about 8′ wide, was displayed in the window of [...]

Do You Label Everything? Labeling is Not a Pastime.

It’s important to label items so that you can easily find something again or otherwise return to a place you are. Now, how vital is it to label something as something it is clearly not?

If someone went around labeling walls as doors, that would be funny. When Magritte labeled his painting of a pipe “Ceci [...]

Throwing Money Down the Drain?

The real coup, though, was convincing us that our kitchen drains harbored dreadful malodorous fumes. Solution: Buy baking soda, bring it home, and immediately POUR IT DOWN YOUR DRAIN! That is a winner.

Cosmetic Buckles and Fins on Cars

Fins, curving chrome bumpers, organically-shaped head- and taillight assemblies. Sculpted door latches.

Louisville recently hosted the Street Rod Nationals, and those features were the delight of the show, at least for us non-motorheads who could maybe use a refresher course on the finer points of torque and turbocharging. I’m particularly fond of paint-jobs with those huge [...]

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