Our local City Pages actually has a good article for once...

[msfledermaus]

Lately I haven't had much use for City pages except for something to use to catch paint when I'm repainting something. But this week they did a scathing article about Spiros, the landlord of my old beloved art-deco apartment. (Known mostly in this blog as "the Crackstack.") Some of you remember the ongoing drama of the Crackstack, and how relieved I was to get out, even though they flooded my apartment and ruined most of my furniture and books.

Anyway, I was so happy about their article that I sent in a big fat letter to the editor, congratulating them and adding my experience to the horde of letters they're probably going to get. I know Ben the Neighbor and Miss Kitty are putting in letters too. Our battle cry? Horrible itchyness and massive poverty to the gold-tasseled dickweed!! May he have to live in one of his own units for a decade!!!

Otherwise, things are interesting. I met the Hobo King and Queen, checking out weathervanes in the Jade Mines. Garrison Keillor stopped by the Jade mines, too, with that half-frightened half-glaring look he gives us; as if begging us not to out him to the crowds. Ben and Peaty are feeding me bacon sandwiches, even though I'm very full. I have a bit of a headcold again. (Yes, again!) But generally, all is well...

Comments

[fleur.livejournal.com]

I just the other day finally watched the PHC movie, which was great til the end, at which point it made less than no sense. Ah well.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

PHC? I'm trying to remember what movie this is...my brains, they just don't work like they should.
*whacks side of head*

[fleur.livejournal.com]

Prairie Home Companion.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Having been a tenants' right advocate back in the day, the "slumlord" title caught my eye... I'll read it when I get home...

I guess that's one of those 6 degrees of separation moments... I know someone who used to rent from an infamous landlord...

All is well, here, too... Just showered off the stench of work.

CP Article

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

...plus I liked the cover art.

Re: CP Article

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

It's an okay article, not like the usual dreck they've been dishing out lately...and the cover art is fabulous!!!

yes, by all means shower off the work-stink. I swear, by the time I get off work the first thing I want to do is wash off all that polyester awfulness and stink really good...

Re: CP Article

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

It would have helped if they had some real photos of real maintenance disasters, not just the depressing slum graphics alone.

Re: the work stink: I was in a rendering plant Friday evening... I wasn't just talking in metaphors ;^)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

you should be a vignette writer. Garrison Keillor looks exactly like that...

Horrible itchyness and massive poverty to the gold-tasseled dickweed!! May he have to live in one of his own units for a decade!!!

No, I think FOREVER would be too short a time for him.

Feel better, Maus.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I like forever... Hell is an eternal lease in the Crackstack, with the landlord telling you he'll get to that leak in the walls "When he feels like it."

I'm already perking up pretty well...a couple of days of downtime out of the cold was apparently the ticket.

[sassylidge.livejournal.com]

I ran into Garrison Keilor at Candyland in St. Paul one time...I decided not to bug him either, which is just about the most Minnesotan thing you can do to a celebrity. "Oh, nooooo, I wouldn't want to bother any booody." lol

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

heh, he comes in pretty often, and always gives us the same look--half angry, half frightened. I just smile and raise my eyebrows politely:)

I think celebs looooooove us, because bothering someone would be so un-Minnesotan, we just couldn't bear the shame of it all...