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Still A Good Movie After Eighteen Years

“Basically, if you broke your leg, they would apply a Hello Kitty band-aid and tell you to run along.”

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I’m waiting for the super to come fix the hole in our bathroom ceiling which previously this week gushed water all over the floor. Usually by “fix”, he and the landlady mean “patch over in a shoddy fashion in such a way that the problem is guaranteed to happen again due to the lack of substantive repairs”.

Basically, if you broke your leg, they would apply a Hello Kitty band-aid and tell you to run along. I know we live in a rent stabilized building, but for fuck’s sake.

Anyway, I’m watching “Tremors” on cable and it is still a remarkably entertaining little movie. Very suspenseful and funny. IMDB trivia says that Michael Gross started shooting this the day after filming his last episode of “Family Ties“.

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Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite

“If you know anything about bedbugs, you know they are ridiculously difficult to get rid of once you have an infestation.”

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This story is a cute piece about something quite ugly: bedbugs are no joke people. I think last year we had a few and my co-worker recommended this primo spray called: Champion SprayOn® Multi-Purpose Insect & Lice Killer-10 oz. It normally costs $45 a bottle, but you can get it cheaper here. Item CHA5106.

This stuff is great. It doesn’t smell heavily of pesticide (or really of anything) so you can spray the shit out of your mattress and linens and not have to leave the room. If you know anything about bedbugs, you know they are ridiculously difficult to get rid of once you have an infestation. Like, way worse than fleas. Like people have to throw their furniture away.

For more info: bedbugs on Wikipedia, bedbugs in New York and bedbugs at Fox News (ha ha!).

[ Topic Environment, Health, Housing, Politics, Etc., Pseudo-Science, Ridiculosity, Science, Society | 1 Comment ]

Home Is Where the Emo Is

Everyone sitting here saw this flyer and thought to themselves:

“I am a hipster and I want to buy a house.”

Needless to say, the sign made me do a double take and cheered me up immensely.

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My Dream of Affordable Housing

“I was like, Oh shit! I have to move in right now.”

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Last night I dreamt that my co-worker D. found out the apartment next to his
was available. I went to look at his old place because it’s my unrealized
dream to have my own apartment. It was a studio and the rent was $642 a
month. I thought, well, even if it’s tiny, that’s so cheap!

It was gorgeous. I walked in and even though it was a studio (well, with
another smaller area in the back), the room was the size of my whole
apartment that I currently share. The walls were white and the ceilings
were really high. There was a lot of natural light, which is super important
to me.

I didn’t see D.’s new place, but I imagine it was even bigger because his
rent was $750. I was like, Oh shit! I have to move in right now. I went home and packed a suitcase and figured I would move the rest of my stuff later but I absolutely could not lose out on this apartment.

Later, I either realized that the kitchen was communal and located in the
hallway or there were no kitchens in the apartments. It was not in the
hallway at first and then it was and then it wasn’t. There was also a list
of all the rents posted in the hallway for the five units in the building.
They all ranged between $600-$750. It seemed like maybe D.’s was the best apartment.

You cannot understand how sad I was to wake up and realize it was just a
dream.

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