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A long-time Ugly Advocate, Sally’s a field agent & stealth operative all the way in Minnesota (which she once insisted “doesn’t get that cold”). Right. If you’re not aware of Sally’s work, I provide this example. The woman’s a magician. As such, I couldn’t wait to see behind the scenes – we were kindly obliged! [...]
Sad but true – in the past year we killed every single houseplant we owned*. And we’re self-described plant people. Doesn’t make sense, does it? It took a long time to accept that the amount of light coming through the windows wasn’t the amount I wanted it to be. More than any other feature, the [...]
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“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso Pablo, meet Paolo. One hell of a destroyer. It’s Day 73 and dare I say we’re ready to create. Ladies & gents, pay your respects, the popcorn ceiling’s gone. Done. We’re stepping out of dingy darkness, striding towards bright light. 1-2-3 O’Clock, [...]
Enough of yesterday’s grim, real-life carnage. Wouldn’t we rather inspect tasteful medical diagrams? The [ugly] living room wall before: mirror/plywood mosaic bright orange paint really shitty chair-rail, for midgets glorious ‘70s vinyl wallpaper a shitty in-built bookshelf, with inset mirrors more mirror/plywood mosaic disgusting, dingy grasscloth even more mirror/plywood mosaic A whole lot of things [...]
A fortuitous day: we’ve found all the pieces required to watch a movie. Power strips, speaker cable, the DVD player and the remotes. Magic. Our celebration erred with the movie itself: Shutter Island. Awful. Like actually dreadful. For awhile, we’d played it on fast forward and ad-libbed over the top, our own Mystery Science Theatre. The [...]
