I'm up to Step 4 in transforming the rarely used living room into The Music Room.
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September 16, 2017
Getting it together.
I'm up to Step 4 in transforming the rarely used living room into The Music Room.
(Please use this post as an open thread... which means that I must add: Please consider doing any shopping you might have through The Althouse Amazon Portal.)
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I think it's so groovy now that people are finally getting together.
That looks like the Ikea 'Uffda', suitable for storing a lifetime collection of LPs. Better move it away from the radiator.
When I was a freshman at U. of Wash., I generally spent the first two hours of class standing against a hot- water radiator to dry out my pantlegs below my raincoat.
That may be the single best item Ikea sells. We have one that we've owned for about 15 years. It's been a bookshelf, a behind-the-couch table, a bar, and now a TV stand. It's heavy-duty enough that you can stand on it and we briefly had it in front of a bay window as a seat, but the dogs kept using it jump into the bay window so we moved it.
Looks like someone wrung the neck of that dog(?) toy.
My Most Excellent Saturday Read: “An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Dream is real” by JASON D. HILL
Never heard of him before, His words are a wholesome chiropractic for Americans of any color.
Reading it was like taking a fine swim in a newfound swimming hole. His ideas -- loving, generous, but strict, refusing any excuses for not making the most of what you got -- caused me to pause and review how encumbered i have become with excuses for not doing more with myself.
Those old hurts of mine got a good washing, and i come away brave and frisky to try again. Thanks, Mr. Hill. So glad this man is in the world.
PLUS: harmonically strumming a similar "True Human, Be YourSelf" song underneath my reading this morning was Althouse's various thoughts and links to Harry Dean Stanton. So glad this man was in the world. rest in Perfectly-pitched Peace.
thanks for the chance to talk, Ms. Althouse, and a Happy Saturday too all.
Salud!
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Regarding your blog today, Ann, thanks for the mammaries.
Put on some LCD Soundsystem.....and groove
I have a couple of those IKEA units and my daughters have them in their houses too. The design is so interesting, simple and practical. Unlike shelves from Design Within Reach, they are also affordable. I also love the IKEA instruction sheets. They look crazy but if you follow them exactly they alwas work.
I looked at a lot of things and would have paid a lot for something nicer, but nothing was this perfect. This thing only cost $65! Double that to include delivery, and it's a great deal.
Proud of myself for putting it together and for relocating the stereo components.
Now, I just need to bring all the records up from the basement.
Thinking of doing some blogging projects....
Ms Althouse --
Ten years from now you won't be able see records etc. on the bottom tier, or be able to stoop over to pick them out without falling down -- and then you won't be able to get up . . .
Lessons from a septuagenarian.
L J
I finished the Victoria series on BBC. To entertain guests, she took them to the music room and played Schubert. Perhaps she was a passable pianist, but who would tell her if she wasn't. Plus Schubert sucks even when he's played by professionals. Maybe it didn't sound so bad to 19th century ears, but it's pretty bland and boring. Then they would all go to the card room and play boring card games while sitting upright in uncomfortable clothes. These were the most privileged people in England, perhaps the world, and their lives were flat and tedious and no fun at all.
their lives were flat and tedious and no fun at all.
Which explains why Bertie (Ed VII) started the "fast" Marlborough House set and bedded all the well-boobed beauties of Britain.
Victoria kept her houses so cold, her youngest daughter, an accomplished pianist, got rheumatism and had to quit. She allowed that daughter to marry only if they agreed to live with her until she died. Ten years later, the bored husband was finally allowed to go on an Army deployment to Africa. He got sick and died there 5 years before Victoria. The daughter bowdlerized the Queen's journals, destroying 2/3 of them, ostensibly to protect living people, but I think in revenge.
Lots & lots of LPs, housed in several Ikea Expedits (precursor to the "less woody, more greenie" Kallax replacement).
There isn't an Ikea near Madison?
I thought the upper Midwest was Scandi-Central.
Let's discuss this "report" that boys have an unfair edge in physics because they pee standing up:
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/taking-pee-out-physics-how-boys-are-getting-a-leg
Question: if this is true, wouldn't the tendency for little girls to take up cooking in the kitchen give them an edge in chemistry?
Ten years from now you won't be able see records etc. on the bottom tier, or be able to stoop over to pick them out without falling down -- and then you won't be able to get up . . .
Unless records are heavier than books, I don't think so. I am awaiting the delivery of our 8th and 9th bookcases, all of which have a bottom shelf at floor level. The first 7 are full in spite of considerable donations to the local library.
Each bookcase holds from 90 to 100 books.
Did I miss the post on Posner retiring? Reading Josh Blackman on Twitter @JoshMBlackman and his review of Posner's book tells me, a non-lawyer, it was truly time for this guy to go. What an ass. Was he always this way or just get this way in his old age?
Let's discuss this "report" that boys have an unfair edge in physics because they pee standing up...
If true, then boys ( at least those in snowy climes ) should have had an advantage in learning cursive. I never saw such an advantage amongst my peers.
cf: I concur! The article was excellent reading. I would encourage others to read it in its entirety.
Did I miss the post on Posner retiring?
Yes.
There's no IKEA in Wisconsin. I'd have to drive to Schaumburg.
And the box was very heavy. It was good having a strong young man bring it into the house.
The British Underground bomber is a Syrian immigrant "foster child" who was caught trying to flee the country.
And he had been interrogated by the police a month earlier, but let go, so yes, he was "in the eyes of the police."
Cool. Too cool for Althouse ;)
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Spouse and I have been collecting antique barrister bookcases over the years (stackable w/sliding glass doors). Have four (4) up to this point. Price has gone up over the years.
Humperdink
I bought eight oak glass front stackables with two tops and bottoms in 1974 at a dead lawyer's estate sale. They had be taken care of and looked almost new. Two years later a friend who worked at Crane & Co found eight in the company old stock storage they were cleaning out and going to scrap. I got them for free, still in the box. There is a down side though, my ex got them in the devorce. ;-(
Ann Althouse
You should put your "handy man" to work over the winter making a radiator cover under that window. It would make a nice bench.
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