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    San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)

    Monuments to Hubris: The New Tech HQs That Harbinger Doom

    Huffington Post Serves up Hoax on Front Page

    An Insult to Steve Jobs' Taste

    Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/09/09

    In reply to San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
    I don't know why, but I find the idea of Larry Ellison as a Scientologist to be absolutely delicious. #tomcruise
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    11/09/09

    In reply to San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
    Why on earth would Tom Cruise be interested in moving to SF? I mean, economically, geographically or culturally . . . what of SF could possibly be of interest to Mr. Cruise?

    I just don't see it. #tomcruise
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    Image of nostateleftbehind001 nostateleftbehind001
    11/09/09

    @resipsaloquacious: He wants to be closer to his real posse. Conflicted much?
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    11/09/09

    @resipsaloquacious: It certainly wouldn't be for the boys, that's for dead certain. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    @nostateleftbehind001: @tmp00:

    Bert Fields will be contacting both of you -- shortly. #tomcruise
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    10/30/09

    In reply to Monuments to Hubris: The New Tech HQs That Harbinger Doom
    Has Valleywag been outsourced to Pakistan? #yahoo
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    Image of Lock Lock
    07/21/09

    In reply to Huffington Post Serves up Hoax on Front Page
    C'mon, Tate. I think anyone gets the joke, including, dare think it! The Huffington Post.

    I emailed the Curbed item to them this afternoon in a winking way, after Kottke reblogged it. I don't think the item merits this kind of high-level derision, given, again, the obvious fact that, well, no one's actually going to build an airport in Central Park.

    Though one can hope.
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    Image of blogenfreude blogenfreude
    07/21/09

    In reply to Huffington Post Serves up Hoax on Front Page
    If Robert Moses were still alive, he'd think it was a good idea.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/21/09

    @blogenfreude: Unlikely. Not enough residents to displace.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    07/21/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: srsly. If he couldn't ruin a neighborhood, it had no value to him.
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    07/21/09

    @blogenfreude: Yes, like the one of never allowing buses on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge so Blacks would not be able to move to Staten Island.
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    07/21/09

    In reply to Huffington Post Serves up Hoax on Front Page
    Also a hoax, that Jon is a "Great Cook."
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    07/21/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Even better: I first read that as "Great cock" and immediately felt ill.
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    07/21/09

    @VoxPopuli: Saying Jon is a 'great cock' would be like calling him a big dick, though, so maybe it's valid?
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    07/21/09

    @VoxPopuli: Best of all, the headline seems to be claiming that Jon and Kate now have a girlfriend together. Jon and Kate plus eight plus Kate.
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    07/21/09

    @Caius: At least there's a mention of a condom on the front page for Jon's great cock.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/21/09

    @DeadFred: Hard Times and Real Misery indeed.

    (Sadly, I don't think I can quite work in the neo-Nazi story.)
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    07/21/09

    In reply to Huffington Post Serves up Hoax on Front Page
    If I ever need to collect debts, I'm callin' me up John Cook.
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    07/21/09

    @Mount_Prion: Unless the debter is Jesse Watters, that is.
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    07/22/09

    @jackvinyl: Oooooo... Burn!
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    07/15/09

    In reply to An Insult to Steve Jobs' Taste
    Trivia alert: George Washington Smith was one of the nation's first African American architects and one of the most talented designers of the Mission-inspired Hollywood style during the 1920s through the early 1950s. If I am correct, the Beverly Hills Hotel is the best known of his designs.



    I could see uber-nerd Jobs wanting something a little less, um, superglamorous, but Smith's work is of national significance and should be accorded at least the degree of "protection" described here.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    07/15/09

    In reply to An Insult to Steve Jobs' Taste
    There is something weird about buying (and then keeping for years) a house you hate. Maybe there's buried treasure on the lot.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion
    Smear smear smear. Rinse, repeat.


    Looking at the house, I'd say that even if it weren't in disrepair, I'd have an argument against the Heritage Blahblah people in terms of its significance. It give s me a cold feeling too.


    Yeah, he should have sold it a long time ago, but if he loves the land but hates the house, and there was no provision in his original contract about preservation, then tough noogies.


    If this is all you have on him at the moment, I'll sleep tonight.

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    Image of Moonshine Mike Moonshine Mike
    04/27/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion
    Do what everyone else does and BUY THE PLANNING COMMISSION. C'mon, it's worked for people for decades, why stop now? Steve can afford the local vig the Doris the zoning matriarch.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion
    Very few homes in California should be protected for "historical preservation." I’d venture to guess that nothing in Woodside warrants that distinction. This is not so much evidence of Jobs’s intransigence as it is of the locals’ pretentiousness.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    04/27/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion
    Anyone who has ever dealt with a planning board (outside of NYC, where the LPC appears to have been staffed with slinkies made of Jello) knows that they're staffed by an equal mixture of one part bored-old-coot, one part contractor-who-will-vote-for-you-if-you-use-his-company, and one part overgrown student council secretary, none of whom have a clue about architecture ("This looks pretty modern; I think a colonial would be more in keeping with the neighborhood" ad infinitum), and all of whom are drunk on the immense power they wield over their neighbors' building projects.


    What do we know about this project? Not much from the above, but we know that (i) it's not someone putting up a McMansion on a postage stamp they just bought, and (ii) it's pretty unlikely the house has any historical value because, let's face it, it's Woodside. Not to mention that this is the same area that Larry Ellison has dotted with mock shogun castles. So it's none of the commission's damn business, and it's certainly none of our damn business. Let the man build the house he wants on the land he owns, already.

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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    04/27/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion
    No! Not Memphis! [gawker.com]
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    04/27/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs and the Abandoned Mansion
    When you tear down a house to put up a new one, you end up carving out a big basement (environment) to support something ginormous to justify the cost of the land/house you just purchased.


    Go walk around the nouveau riche areas of suburban NYC - Westchester and Fairfield Counties, commutable NJ - and see what "hey, just let 'em build what they want" gets you: mile after mile of stone-in-front, clapboard-on-the-sides 7,000+ square foot mansions with enormous cellars that cause flooding for the neighbors' property, stick out like sore thumbs, and are unsellable to anyone.

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