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Tag: This Old Apartment (Building)

  • We're fine (if anyone is worried about the tornado that hit)

    A tornado hit downtown but we’re about a mile and a half distant from where most of the damage was concentrated. Our power went out for a bit but we didn’t have the television on and had no idea there was a tornado warning, we were only aware there was a storm. We didn’t know…

  • At 12:30 am, there was this BOOM…

    So last night at around 12:30 am there was this huge but kind of muffled boom that sounded like either a thundercloud had exploded or a building a block away had fallen down. Beat. “What was that?” I said. “What was that?” H.o.p. said. “I heard it too,” Marty said. We’re sounding like the momma…

  • The Neighborhood Gets Way Too Eventful (And Snow)

    I woke up Tuesday morning set to spend the day devoted to working on Sue’s photos but checking my email I discovered that I was part of Dreamhost’s $7,500,000 f*** u* in which they accidentally way overcharged all their customers. Only I didn’t know this was a major all-encompassing script snafu yet. All I knew…

  • Upstairs

    We have living above us the next Coen Brother’s movie plot. You think I’m joking. I’m not. I’m dead serious about it. And, no matter how much I love the Coen Brothers (“The Big Lebowski’s” dude is my hero) I don’t want the plot of their next movie living above us because DAMN IT the…

  • The Perfume of Serious Welding Has Been Wafting the Air

    Oh, this has been going on a while, hasn’t it. On March 14 I blogged about a pipe feeding the radiant heaters that had apparently busted in our kitchen wall, in January, and how it was humidly wrecking havoc on the kitchen with steam pouring through the wall, peeling paint etc. And it couldn’t be…

  • Bill’s Old Chair

    Bill’s Old Chair

    Bill’s Old Chair 2004 Lightbox enlargement Bill was a homeless person with epilepsy who used to hang out around the building doing odd jobs occasionally. Each morning he would sit out back in the yellow chair and have his coffee.

  • The Landlord

    The Landlord Light box enlargement

  • Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening

    Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening

    Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening Enlargement It’s harsh to admit it, but beauty seems sometimes in short supply on the corner of our block. We had rain yesterday, a brief break from a long drought, and today this purple flower had sprouted up in one of our pots in the back. We brought…

  • The Year Long Christmas Angel

    The Year Long Christmas Angel

    The Year Long Christmas Angel Has sat outside on a storeroom’s ac unit ever since we moved in the apartment building. View On White

  • “What did her friend think of me? Why did she make that face at me?”

    The Gargoyle Guards the Door on His Perch, 2007 H.o.p.’s questions on someone visiting the building, who made a face at him and sighed, it seems, with some contempt when she was passing and he was playing the gargoyle. I hadn’t noticed it but H.o.p. did and asked me about it several times. What I…

  • The Odd Note

    Seriously, the odd note. I’m sitting here yesterday morning working on photos and there was a peculiar wispy beep sound from the kitchen. We should have no beep sounds coming from the kitchen, but there it was. And then tonight I wake up and come in and sit down and after about five minutes from…

  • In which I beg for ideas on how to maximize our kitchen counter room

    Witness the kitchen of our apartment. Most of the time, on blogs, people show pics of really cool looking kitchens which, if not bodaciously spacious, are aesthetically pleasing. They show pics of their new tiled floors or new ceramic tiled backsplashes. Not many people put up pics of ugly kitchens which don’t have a title…