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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/16/09

    In reply to Monuments to Hubris: The New Tech HQs That Harbinger Doom
    Sounds like IBM's Dubuque facility. Big Blue made a big deal with Dubuque to build a delivery center, and then promptly laid of tens of thousands of American workers. Now they wonder why they can't staff the facility.

    Seriously, who would want to move to Dubuque?
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    12/09/09

    In reply to Upper East Side Smut Castle Ruined by Uptight Hedge Funder
    I want a smut castle so bad.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/09/09

    In reply to Upper East Side Smut Castle Ruined by Uptight Hedge Funder
    Smut Castle is now the official name of my fish camp on the Gulf of Mexico.

    And don't be dissing Eames.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/09/09

    @miss_msry: Oooh, I hope it's near my anything-goes casino, The Dunes.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/09/09

    In reply to Upper East Side Smut Castle Ruined by Uptight Hedge Funder
    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12/09/09

    In reply to Upper East Side Smut Castle Ruined by Uptight Hedge Funder
    I really don’t give a damn for Guccione’s interiors, but it would be a shame to remove the ivy on the façade.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    12/09/09

    In reply to Upper East Side Smut Castle Ruined by Uptight Hedge Funder
    The ivy looks like Guccione's chest-hair.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/09/09

    @depardoo: Clearly, it was designed by the same guy who did the columns.
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    Image of BitchyD BitchyD
    12/09/09

    In reply to Upper East Side Smut Castle Ruined by Uptight Hedge Funder
    1st thing on the to do list should be to clear all that dead ivy from that magnificent facade .
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    Image of BitchyD BitchyD
    12/09/09

    @BitchyD: Make that all of the plant life growing on the house. It seems to be creeping over from the slobs next door.
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    Image of Dare To No Dare To No
    12/09/09

    @BitchyD: I'd probably want to give the jelly dildo room a good cleaning first.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/09/09

    @Dare To No: . . . not to mention the breakfast nook.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    12/09/09

    @BitchyD: The building on the right is part of the mansion. Agree about the dead ivy, but a shame about the living ivy- the plans at Curbed looked like they're going to remove it all.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    12/09/09

    @BitchyD: Oh, but I love the dead ivy! It really screams "Come on in--the Addams family lives here!"
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    Image of BookishLatkeish BookishLatkeish
    12/09/09

    @DahlELama: I love the ivy, dead or alive, though it is lousy for the brickwork. But it looks like the triumph of Nature over the city. Like when a calf escapes from the abattoir.
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    Image of jordos1 jordos1
    12/08/09

    In reply to There's Never Been a Better Time to Try Your Hand at House Flipping
    Parents bought house for under ~2ook in late 1970s, sold it for 50 times in 2006. Only good investment my dad ever made, and he didn't even plan it. Now he has the money but misses his dream home terribly. Says selling was a mistake. True story.
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    Image of ShamimEspiahi ShamimEspiahi
    12/08/09

    In reply to There's Never Been a Better Time to Try Your Hand at House Flipping
    Ugh.. that means Jeff Lewis will be back on Bravo..
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/08/09

    @ShamimEspiahi: I find him and his lips unnervingly fascinating.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    12/08/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Right? What is it about his lips?
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/08/09

    @Trulymadlyme: I'm thinking enhancement of some kind for sure and they are kissable, IMO, but I also enjoy his zombie-like fastidiousness. He's freakish and not easy to work for--one can see this-- but there is also an order about his world that I find comforting.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/08/09

    In reply to There's Never Been a Better Time to Try Your Hand at House Flipping
    If you want to be scared straight, watch "Property Ladder." The flippers tend to be unrealistic, somewhat bumbling and fast and loose with their cash. Budgets: never knew ya! Oh and that one guy ate a live cockroach from under the floor of the L.A. mansion he was restoring. You can see how craaazy people are these days.
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    Image of Tambar Tambar
    12/08/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: I recall the guy who was going to take the 'newer' carpet from his home to redo a condo. urgh.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/08/09

    @Tambar: No. Fail.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/08/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: I adore that show. From minute one there's such a sense of impending doom behind the homeowner's starry-eyed optimism!
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/08/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Well-said. And I love Kirsten Kemp. She is one darling bad-ass.
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    Image of Tambar Tambar
    12/08/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Even the dubiously impartial hostess cringed when he said it.
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    12/08/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: I love that show so, so much. Kirsten Kemp's doubtful eyebrow is killer.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/08/09

    @CumaeanSibyl: The Eyebrow. Whew. Betta run.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    12/08/09

    In reply to There's Never Been a Better Time to Try Your Hand at House Flipping
    Sorry, but "Buy it, fix it, flip it" will never supplant my personal motto: "Smack it up, flip it, rub it down."
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    Image of Bottle-Of-Smoke Bottle-Of-Smoke
    12/08/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Oh, no?
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/08/09

    In reply to There's Never Been a Better Time to Try Your Hand at House Flipping
    Bring back Tom Vu informercials!
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    12/08/09

    In reply to There's Never Been a Better Time to Try Your Hand at House Flipping
    I can operate a cash register and make a fucking bombass cup of coffee, but I can't hammer a nail to save my life, and you probably can't either. When flipping, hire olds to do your carpentry and wiring on the cheap! They probably accidently learned a skill in their youth. (Their youth was the '50s.)
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    12/08/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: Thank you for clarifying that the Olds had their youth in the 50's--'cause it means that I'M NOT OLD!! YEA!!
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    Image of simplicissimus simplicissimus
    12/08/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: The other approach to rehab on the cheap is to redefine your personal aesthetics around the word "rehabbed," and simply live in the house as-is. That way, crumbling plaster, exposed brick, capricious plumbing, and the "rain-powered sprinkler system" in the roof eventually burrow their way into your brain as things of beauty. Much simpler in the long run.
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    Image of Products Will Save Me Products Will Save Me
    12/08/09

    In reply to New Condos For The Poor
    "Michael Kelly, the housing agency’s new general manager, said it had 'turned the corner' on the project..."

    People are still using that phrase without irony?
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    Edited by Products Will Save Me at 12/08/09 1:11 PM Products Will Save Me was starred Products Will Save Me was unstarred
    Image of meechybee meechybee
    12/08/09

    In reply to New Condos For The Poor
    I'm only in favor of a "put them in the condos" plan if they tear down these low-income eyesores. These buildings are so poorly-built, and depressing -- the sooner we replace them with more energy-efficient structures that are better lit and safer, the better.
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    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    12/08/09

    @meechybee: The one thing that jars me about Chelsea, is that smack dab in the gallery district are tons of public housing structures like the ones pictured. I'd be all for the modernization of these buildings or complete tearing down of them.
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