Haines His Way

Thanks, I'll put that on my do not read list.  I'm adding a few of those to my "books I have read" list by authors.

That's the title of my next memoir:

Hopelessly Unironic

TOD:

I forgot to add, on my nightstand:
The Last Secret of the Temple, by Paul Sussman.

Sort of in the mold of The DaVinci Code.

Good luck Jeanne!

Bryan's loft is no longer pending.  They buyer's seemed so sure & now they have gotten cold feet.  I'll be shocked if the buyers he passed up for this will still be interested.  We can only hope the three days of "pending" didn't do too much damage & that it worked out for the best.

Thanks, Jane. Just this morning my agent said to me, "There's an expression in real estate that buyers are liars." I think there's an epidemic of cold feet among buyers these days. My first buyer, who LOVED the house, was convinced by his parents, who live in Connecticut, that prices would go lower and he shouldn't buy. My next buyer put in a ridiculously low offer. He still wants the house, but doesn't want to pay a fair price. I truly think that all the bad press has made a bad situation much, much worse. There are neighborhoods that have not lost much value, where homeowners stay for a very long time and there is thus little turnover. Yet the buyers seem to think that ALL sellers are desperate and they can get a great bargain. In reality, it varies greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood. Unfortunately, the area where I'm hoping to buy is one of those areas where there isn't much turnover. Let's not forget that it's in the real estate agents' interest to get buyers to drop the price and produce a quick sale.

My best to Bryan.

Been listening to a flute/guitar duo called Similia.  Just chose it out of the blue because I wanted to hear "Carmen Fantasy" on Flute, so I chose this album.  It's very good!!!

Matthew, have you--or other DRs--ever heard Vince Macaluso? He used to play the most wonderful 10-string classical guitar.

I'm getting nostalgic for my old LA days!

Thanks Jeanne.  Bryan's realtor said the ratio of offers is about the same as usual, however, the number of houses not making it to closure is much lower.

He put his loft up at the lower end of a fair price, which was less than the realtor suggested.

I'll do it!!

Cannibal, Living Dead, Freak, and now Whore - your Mama must be so proud!

der Brucer

Gotta scoot.

I'm enjoying my day off thus far.  Also, thus far I'm enjoying my day off.

When I was cleaning out my dresser drawers last week, I found about thirty t-shirts I'd never worn, so I have lots of new t-shirts now.

This lady lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. She took a little red dish, filled it with sugar water and this is the result.






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With the F.... A....  logo?

der Brucer

I still have my FA mug.

Oy - such a fuss!



LA TIMES

Vogue is catching a lot of heat over the magazine's historic April cover couple, LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen.

Apparently some folks think it's a great shot (by Annie Leibovitz) of a top basketball player doing what he does best -- dribbling a ball -- and a supermodel doing what she does best -- posing with a good-looking man.  

Others complain that the cover conveys blatant racial and sexual stereotypes by showing an angry black man with a helpless white woman.

Now I ask you - does she look helpless!

der Brucer

Speaking of mugs - where is your avatar?

der Brucer

BK didn't like that it moved.  I did not do mine where everyone else did theirs, and the site I did mine at did not have a "static" option, so I deleted it.