Althouse: At the House Paint Café...

२६ जून, २०१२

At the House Paint Café...

... you don't have to be superficial.

९४ टिप्पण्या:

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Paint it.. white; २६/६/१२, १०:२४ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: What are those colorful orbs on the flower box?; २६/६/१२, १०:२६ PM
Synova म्हणाले...: Oh, I think you're going to like that!

Nice.; २६/६/१२, १०:२७ PM
ALH म्हणाले...: Please tell me that isn't Meade up there risking his life for the sake of (home) appearances.; २६/६/१२, १०:३० PM
Irene म्हणाले...: Crisp. Nice!; २६/६/१२, १०:३१ PM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: White slavery!; २६/६/१२, १०:३६ PM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: Is that Frank Lloyd Meade working on Ann's Seven Gables?

Nice masculine colors. But Ann of the Seven Gables probably still choses the interior purples and pinks.; २६/६/१२, १०:३६ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Wow! It's your property!; २६/६/१२, १०:३८ PM
Bob Ellison म्हणाले...: Turley commits a fictus pacem error when he calls the eggshell-white paint "soothing". Bullpoop! The color is a deliberate affront to Turley's snobby refusal to admire the big, green orbs!; २६/६/१२, १०:३९ PM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: "Wow! It's your property!"

They prefer to be called "The Help."; २६/६/१२, १०:४० PM
Penny म्हणाले...: MUCH better to live IN the white house than next to it.; २६/६/१२, १०:४२ PM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Missed a spot!; २६/६/१२, १०:४२ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Wow?

Did I just say that?; २६/६/१२, १०:४३ PM
ALH म्हणाले...: Meade in the White House 2012 !; २६/६/१२, १०:४३ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: And Joe Biden as the shutter color.; २६/६/१२, १०:४५ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: It's light gray actually.; २६/६/१२, १०:४५ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: And dark gray, two shades out of fifty.; २६/६/१२, १०:४९ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: I like the black windows..

The colors are going to look something like this?; २६/६/१२, १०:५० PM
wyo sis म्हणाले...: I like it. It doesn't look green at all on the house. You were right.
I've painted a few houses in my life and I don't envy you the task. Two story houses are the worst to paint, but a lot more fun to live in.; २६/६/१२, १०:५२ PM
Ernst Stavro Blofeld म्हणाले...: Madison-bashing!

http://thirtytwomag.com/2012/06/the-fall-of-thecreative-class/

Four years later, Trunk left town, which seemed odd, given her much-ballyhooed arrival. By then, we had fallen out of touch, and I was never quite clear on her reason for leaving. So I called her to find out what had gone wrong. Trunk now lives on a farm in southwest Wisconsin, (she divorced her husband and married a farmer). On the phone, she was still brash and bombastic and as she told it, her honeymoon with the city started to end almost as soon as she got there. One day her ex-husband was googling, “sex offenders,” and he discovered there were four registered on their block. Next, she discovered that the public schools were terrible. “I started talking to everyone,” Trunk said. “And I said, ‘Hey, aren’t you upset the schools suck? How is everyone sending their kid here?’ And people said, ‘Oh, no, I really love my school. I make sure for my kid it’s all about values.’ I mean the bullshit that people were telling me was utterly incredible. Then it just became like an onslaught. Tons of lies. Madison is a city full of people in denial. People don’t leave Madison, so they don’t realize what’s good and not good.”; २६/६/१२, १०:५८ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Gray?

Only her hairdresser knows for sure.

But that house?

Just grateful she's "painting" it.; २६/६/१२, ११:०१ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Just one brushstroke away from being "neutral", Althouse?; २६/६/१२, ११:०३ PM
Meade म्हणाले...: Pogo said...
"Missed a spot!"

It will have to wait. I just noticed there's a blog post I need to catch up on. Something about packing the court. Oooh... looks long. May take me a little while.

Maybe the rest of the summer.; २६/६/१२, ११:०९ PM
Meade म्हणाले...: I'm a slow reader. And an even slower painter.; २६/६/१२, ११:१३ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Meade, are you going to wear shorts to paint in tommorow?; २६/६/१२, ११:१७ PM
JAL म्हणाले...: Has someone notified OHSA? I am sure there is a violation here somewhere. Has to be.; २६/६/१२, ११:१७ PM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Meade smart.

I see Meade is using technology to.. to.. to

DO THE RIGHT THING!! because..

IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!!

there; २६/६/१२, ११:१८ PM
JAL म्हणाले...: Meade in Shorts with No Bike?

Murder at Meadehouse.; २६/६/१२, ११:१८ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: It's going to be HOT in Wisconsin for the next week, poor Meade.; २६/६/१२, ११:२० PM
Robert म्हणाले...: Paint It Black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJeYZkjmAk; २६/६/१२, ११:२५ PM
Meade म्हणाले...: I work only in the shade. It's in my contract.; २६/६/१२, ११:२७ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Um hm...; २६/६/१२, ११:४९ PM
Sprezzatura म्हणाले...: Oh no!

Meade shrank....

...or, his shirt is too big for him. First we were shown the gigantio jacket, and now this shirt.

[Hint to Meade: you can be a big man even if your clothes don't say L or XL. Don't forget that you can hassle the local libs, so that proves that you're a big man, even if your clothes say M or S.; २६/६/१२, ११:५३ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: So what is it with your new, bright white house, Meade?; २६/६/१२, ११:५४ PM
Penny म्हणाले...: Color me "impressed" when your shrubs are photoshoppenhaured by Chip! :P; २७/६/१२, १२:०० AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Chip's da man!

Or not?

Who's counting nuts in these parts afterall?; २७/६/१२, १२:०४ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Our little squirely man is what?

Ba Boom!; २७/६/१२, १२:०७ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: OMG, just went to bed and had a nightmare where Chip's chip was a friggin' frig?

Frigerator? Frigate?

Scratch that, shit!; २७/६/१२, १२:१२ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Would someone kindly sit on my imagination?; २७/६/१२, १२:१३ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Why thank you!; २७/६/१२, १२:१४ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Will be sure not to forget you on my way down, or your way up! ;); २७/६/१२, १२:१६ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Ohhhh, Pennnnyyyy......

You're welcome.; २७/६/१२, १२:१८ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Ha ha, there really IS a Supreme Court... afterall or underalls...or something like that.

Will leave the smart ones to figure it out.; २७/६/१२, १२:२० AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Ohhhhhh Pennnnnyyyyy, I'm not really here, I'm just a figment of your imagination. Just don't want you to have to talk to yourself.; २७/६/१२, १२:२३ AM
Carnifex म्हणाले...: It's been a while since I did one of my cafe stories, been hectic for awhile...

My dad and I loved duck hunting. Gettin' up before dawn, loadin' the car, and headin' for the duck blind in the freezin' cold. Sometimes it'd snow, but more often it would just be cold, damp, amd muddy. Doesn't that sound fun?

That's because it wasn't! Until we added the dog. Every hunter will tell you that a good dog is a joy to watch work. When you're a hyperkinetic teenager, having a good ol' huntin' dog will help the hours hunting fruitlessly speed by.

So we had a black lab named "Shadow". Shadow was like most huntin' dogs, being dumb as a stump, but friendly as hell. One of those dogs that was just happy to be there.

During the summer, when we'd go swimming at the lake, Shadow would swim beside us. If we got to far from shore, in her mind she would herd us back towards it, and if you were on a float she would grab it and drag you back to shallower water. And when she wasn't watching us kids, she would explore underwater with her paws, feeling around with them much like a racoon. If she found a log or stick she would haul it ashore, but if she found a rock! Well, that was something indeed! And the bigger the better. She would duck her head under water trying to grab it with her teeth, sometimes submerging her whole body before coming up with the offender. When she got the rock to shore, she would lay there, eyeing us the whole time so we didn't go out too far, and spend the rest of the day happily chewing on the rock. Dumb as a stump I said.

One Christmas morning, (apologies to the atheists) dad and I took Shadow duck hunting. We got to the small lake/big pond we had a blind built on while it was still dark thirty. The sun slowly rose, and in the new born light we saw that the lake was completely frozen.Damn! Ducks won't land on a frozen lake, so we packed up our stuff to leave...(I just realized I forgot another one of our hunting trip, Paul, a friend of dad's had joined us) So there were 3 people and 1 large dog in the cab of a pickup truck.

packed up our stuff to leave, and unleashed the dog. Shadow immediately ran down to the lake, and out onto the ice. It doesn't usually ice thick enough to hold a dog let alone a person here so this befuddled her.

She looked down at her feet in puzzlement, taking mincing slippery steps further from the shore. She stopped...she jumped up and down once, twice, and broke through. This was an old silted in lake, very shallow, very muddy, and so shadow was only into the water up to her belly. Not good enough...She laid down in the ice and icy water and mud. And then she rolled side to side to make sure every inch of her body was covered in ice water and mud.

DUMB, MEET STUMP. STUMP, DUMB

We got Shadow out of the ice eventually, and back in the pickup for the ride home. She sat in Paul's lap the entire trip home. Sittin' there, with 90 lbs. of muddy, wet, icy dog in his lap. Dad and me dry.

See how adding a dog can add to your huntin' fun?

Ps. It didn't add to Pauls though.; २७/६/१२, १२:२८ AM
Mark म्हणाले...: But Ann of the Seven Gables probably still choses the interior purples and pinks.

I'm sorry, but any man who prefers the lights on loves the pinks and purples.

A time and a place for everything.; २७/६/१२, १२:२८ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Hey Carnifex, while you're here can you help me roll Penny into bed? I think she passed out.

Cute story too.; २७/६/१२, १२:३२ AM
Rosalyn C. म्हणाले...: Ann, I have a fantasy of you in overalls, painter's cap, and gloves, scraping and sanding the window trim. The two painters at work, cute.

Nice house, BTW; २७/६/१२, १२:४१ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: The dog that hangs out at my house is fond of rocks too, she dunks her head under and grabs them and drops them at our feet to throw back on the lake, so cute until she shakes herself dry next to us.; २७/६/१२, १२:४२ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: I know, Allie, never felt otherwise.

And likewise, for sure.; २७/६/१२, १२:४२ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: Right?; २७/६/१२, १२:४३ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Damn Penny! Still not passed out? Well sister I won't leave you alone, creepy men hang out at this bar.; २७/६/१२, १२:४६ AM
Carnifex म्हणाले...: Miss Allie, whats with the new sig? I've heard of givin' people the back of your hand , but this isn't it.

And trying to help you roll Penny into bed sounds too much like a old B & W romantic comedy starring Cary Grant(that would be me, minus the looks, savoirfaire, and polish), Kate Hepburn, and Mae West(that would be yous' goils); २७/६/१२, २:०४ AM
Penny म्हणाले...: *blink*; २७/६/१२, २:०८ AM
gadfly म्हणाले...: Looks like "Bottom Up" painting. I thought the "bottom up" technique was reserved for adding siding. Then again, this black-and-white-with-shades-of-gray house (and blog) is green at Rio+20.

If Rio+20 is to someday be regarded as a watershed event, it won't be because of "The Future We Want" or other official pronouncements. It will be because civil society is building up awareness and strength in a major way. People are getting ready to force their government leaders into action.

Bottom-up governance is getting ready to replace the top-down structure.

Then again, perhaps "bottom-up" is far less serious.; २७/६/१२, २:५६ AM
MayBee म्हणाले...: Is Google using us to teach its address recognition software how to recognize the numbers?; २७/६/१२, ४:०२ AM
pm317 म्हणाले...: Black and White, now that makes sense for that architecture. Why didn't you do this before?; २७/६/१२, ४:५७ AM
edutcher म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; २७/६/१२, ५:३५ AM
edutcher म्हणाले...: Be careful up there.

I haven't seen something like that in forever. Nice to know sometimes it's done the old way.

ALH said...

Meade in the White House 2012!

That's why Ann calls him the Romster. She's already been picked as his running mate on the principle that the Conservatives' Lovable Liberal will bring in all the Independents.; २७/६/१२, ५:३६ AM
Jaq म्हणाले...: Remember the fun we had with Romney and "sport"? Well Obama congratulated the "Miami Heats" What is it about those 's's?; २७/६/१२, ६:५६ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Insty linked an article about the edu bubble, and it contained this phrase:

"... at least when you go in hawk for a BMW you get wheels."

Hawk?
Heh.

Reynolds likes to quote quoting the economist Herbert Stein: “Something that can’t go on forever, won’t.”

I always preferred the surgeon's dictum: "All bleeding stops ...eventually."; २७/६/१२, ७:२४ AM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Pogo.. thanks for the other morning.; २७/६/१२, ७:३१ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: O, que?; २७/६/१२, ७:३७ AM
Rusty म्हणाले...: Are you going to go back and finish the window trim? Talkin to Meade here. Looks like there is still some red showing.
Also are you rolling it on or brushing?
Which reminds me. I have some trim to stain. Some dental high up, under the eaves. Can I borrow your ladder when you're done with it?
I promise I'll return it.; २७/६/१२, ७:३९ AM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: Somebody asked me a personal question and you.. deflected it for me.

I wanted to email you but you don't have one available.; २७/६/१२, ७:४० AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Ah, de nada!!; २७/६/१२, ७:४६ AM
Meade म्हणाले...: "Are you going to go back and finish the window trim?"

Yes. I'm on coffee break.

"Also are you rolling it on or brushing?

Both

"Which reminds me. I have some trim to stain."

Oh!

"Some dental high up, under the eaves."

Better get that looked at by a DMD.

"Can I borrow your ladder when you're done with it?
I promise I'll return it."

No.; २७/६/१२, ७:५५ AM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; २७/६/१२, ८:०७ AM
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...: There is a chorus of Obama mthe most intersting man in the world mock meme.. perambulating the internets.

I was wondering.. are they any good?

Do they meet the Althouse blog test?

Is the most mentioned president on this blog, the most interesting man in the world?

Is Lem any good at doing an Althousian poll?; २७/६/१२, ८:१० AM
MadisonMan म्हणाले...: at least when you go in hawk for a BMW you get wheels

Preceded by the lovely phrase That’s more than total credit-card debt for the U.S. Its’ most than auto-loan debt

Crying need for an editor.; २७/६/१२, ८:२० AM
ricpic म्हणाले...: Hey Mister, you missed a spot. Where? In the extreme left hand corner under the left side planter. Well of course you can't see it from up there! That's right, you're gonna haveta come down from the ladder to cover it. You'll what? You'll get it later? No, you'll get it now! The lady told you to do the job right and you're gonna do it right...or else!; २७/६/१२, ८:२७ AM
Shanna म्हणाले...: Oh man that just reminds me I need to paint the trim. I will probably wait until it's not 105 though. If only I had a meade to do it for me!

(I like the new paint job, very pretty!); २७/६/१२, ८:३९ AM
Rusty म्हणाले...: "Can I borrow your ladder when you're done with it?
I promise I'll return it."

No.

Damn!
Good thing Lowes stores their outside.

"Some dental high up, under the eaves."

Better get that looked at by a DMD.

Nah. Implants.; २७/६/१२, ८:५३ AM
Rusty म्हणाले...: Shanna said...
Oh man that just reminds me I need to paint the trim. I will probably wait until it's not 105 though. If only I had a meade to do it for me!

(I like the new paint job, very pretty!)

I'm going to reserve judgement until it's all done. The color doesn't really come through in the photograph. Maybe Ms. Althouse needs a filter on her camera to bring the color out. I don't know.

wv iopine No shit, really.; २७/६/१२, ८:५८ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: It's shades of gray, why must everything be black and white to conservatives?!; २७/६/१२, ९:०२ AM
Hagar म्हणाले...: "Eric Holder: 'It’s Going to Get Really Busy on Thursday, Apparently'
"

Anybody understand Eric Holder's attitude to this?; २७/६/१२, ९:०८ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Allie Oop keeps spinning around.

Makes me dizzy.; २७/६/१२, ९:१० AM
Wince म्हणाले...: I tried to think of a song appropriate for painting a stucco house.; २७/६/१२, ९:१४ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Oh little possum, hang on to me, I'll take ya a for spin.; २७/६/१२, ९:१६ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: Prehensile tails have their uses.

Prehensile tales are best kept sub rosa.; २७/६/१२, ९:२२ AM
Shanna म्हणाले...: The color doesn't really come through in the photograph.

I think it looks fresh. The other color kind of has a southwestern feel (although that may just be the lighting), but now it looks like a cottage. I like it.

Although now I'm noticing the flat roof. Is that a midwestern thing (maybe having to do with snow) or purely aesthetic?; २७/६/१२, ९:२४ AM
edutcher म्हणाले...: Needless to say, Ann needs to keep an eye on him.

If Eva kept a better eye on Dolf, he wouldn't have gotten in so much trouble.; २७/६/१२, ९:२८ AM
Dust Bunny Queen म्हणाले...: Tell me that is the primer you are using first and the color is going on later.

Seriously. We are in the process of repainting our house and trim. You should prime first, your paint job will last much longer. Of course I'm talking about the crap paint we have to buy in Calif. Maybe you can still get a decent formula in Madison.; २७/६/१२, ९:५४ AM
Jaq म्हणाले...: "why must everything be black and white to conservatives?!"

Self awareness, thy name is not AllieOop...; २७/६/१२, १०:४२ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: "Although now I'm noticing the flat roof. Is that a midwestern thing (maybe having to do with snow) or purely aesthetic?"

It may look flat in the photo, because I was lying on the grass looking up, and there's an overhang (which is going to be hard to paint).

A flat roof is exactly what you don't want in the snow. There are some of those around here ... mostly from the 50s/60s era. This house was built in the 1920s.; २७/६/१२, ११:५६ AM
ken in tx म्हणाले...: Yes JAL, this is an OSHA violation. If this is a paid employee, a ladder cannot be used as a painting platform. Also, if the person is 6 feet or more above the ground, he or she must be wearing a harness and tether.; २७/६/१२, १:०० PM
Dust Bunny Queen म्हणाले...: What color is your roof? Some variation of black or grey I hope.; २७/६/१२, १:०९ PM
Guildofcannonballs म्हणाले...: The leg levelers are a nice touch.

Let's not forget, a man such as Max McGee died as a result of cleaning his own gutters; I'd bet my bottom dollar without leg levelers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_McGee; २७/६/१२, ३:२३ PM
Guildofcannonballs म्हणाले...: http://stores.nextag.com/store/4886497/product/970988653/48IN-ALUM-EXT-LDR; २७/६/१२, ४:०८ PM
Guildofcannonballs म्हणाले...: The benefits of a stabilizer bar include not touching metal gutters, but instead putting the stabilizer bar on the roof above the gutters.

The stabilizing effect is important too, depending on your height.; २७/६/१२, ४:११ PM
Guildofcannonballs म्हणाले...: "Mar-resistant rubber caps protect work surface."

You got that right.; २७/६/१२, ४:३६ PM
Guildofcannonballs म्हणाले...: I climb.

V. Morrison has climbed, or so I've heard.; २७/६/१२, ५:०१ PM
Jeny म्हणाले...: Thanks for the sharing infomation with us..........house painting perth wa; १६/८/१२, ११:२३ PM
Unknown म्हणाले...: Black color is elegant and that window color is elegant too.

exterior painting commerce; २/५/१३, ५:४९ PM