friend of the built environment

RE: The new All-Christian town being built in Florida, which will eliminate the existence of pornography, homosexuality and promiscuity using a high-tech Moral Force Field system:
While the governor does not personally believe in abortion or pornography, the town, and any restrictions they may place on businesses choosing to locate there, must comply with the laws [...]

Sports only amuse me to the extent that humans seem to have a severe need for fake conflict, and sports are a HUGE outlet for that. It seems like the times when there is relative stability in a society are the times when sports receive the most gravity by that society.
Today is no exception. Sports [...]

More houseunt blather - feel free to move along if you’re sick of it…
Just got a call from the preapproval lady.
Wow. Our credit health is better than we thought.
They’ll probably try to make us look at like 500k houses and junk, even though I know we can only afford around 150k.
Now to find that 1962 [...]

Am I the only one who sees the use of steroids by athletes as such a non-issue? They’re using a performance-enhancing chemical to achieve the most at their preferred vocation. Perhaps its the fact that so many people take sports so much more seriously than its importance warrants that explains why the average American is [...]

Isn’t it pathetic that our dottering dunce of a President was the unheard voice of reason in the port sale controversy?

 
I guess he gets what he deserves (and those who voted for him get what they deserve, in the form of greater anti-American/anti-globalism sentiment abroad). Five years of fascistic focus on the !!1!1!OMG Threat of [...]

So, David and I long ago decided that the Mellow Mushroom was the best pizza in town. Good ingredients, unpretentious, and not a huge boozer crowd.

 
However, we’ve had some service issues the past couple times we went to the North Charlotte location (N Davidson and 36th). I’ve usually given them the benefit of the doubt, [...]

This weekend we made our first visit to one of the ‘new construction communities’ of Charlotte. Blah. Alas, I remember back when my parents did the same thing in the mid-80s and it was actually pleasant and promising.
The hot real estate market has made people shelve the idea of owning a home in favor of [...]

Another three weeks in purgatory. I’m trying to decide whether this is getting old.
In home-search news, hubby and I have decided that Winston suits us better. We’ve been pre-approved for more than we expected and we have a buyers’ agent in the Triad whose sending us loads of cute house listings in Ardmore and West [...]

What’s this here thing? Am I supposed to be updating this or something?
Three weeks of Blah in San Francisco, which I expect to break up with one or two nights of dinner with friends, a trip to see the family in Fresno (and give them the gorgeous shiny videos David made for them) and a [...]

Is it revealing how much of an old geezer I am to have just finished watching Beyond Thunderdome and having had persistent thoughts of how much better old-fashioned mechanical effects were, and how modern action films are nothing but substance-less computer-animation eye candy? Nah, ‘course not…

A list of some of my latest musical affectations:

The Six Parts Seven
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Beth Gibbons
Clan of Xymox
Marc Almond
Electric Skychurch
Skinny Puppy
Tom Waits

Make of that what you will…