Adventures In Koopland

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Every square inch of your house is gorgeous. It's like a ritzy bed & breakfast.

B&B hosts are 100%, without fail, weirdos. So obviously Scotch probably wants to turn his house into one but the Mrs has at least a modicum of sense and wont let him.

So instead she conceded to allowing him to make every part of his house look like the front of a hallmark card that could have a million different phrases inside.

His entire place is a man-cave, so I don't think this applies. While I'd recommend having a section of a wall to display the sports stuff - going from top to bottom, with the stuff you want to see close-up at eye level - I'd say that putting that stuff around the TV isn't that bad of an idea. It's not like the TV is anything other than an appliance for watching sports anyway.

But where I lose it is having the old-timey grandmother clock in the center over the TV. That should definitely go on a wall somewhere, at a normal height, over a wood table or something. Ours is right in the entry foyer (obviously a Channukah pic).

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I can think of 5 off thee top with no thought at all.....some of them may suck if I'm really giving no thought to it but here I go:

1. When you're home you feel the the warmth of family that a candle's light represents.
2. Our door is always open to friends and new friends.
3. When you're home you will never feel alone.
4. Family is always there for you with an open door and loving arms.
5. I think this grumpy Jew is acting inviting with season's greetings but he really wants to turn me into a human centipede. Or bore me to death with engineering talk......6 of 1 half dozen of the other.

(That last one probably wouldn't make a Hallmark card.)
 
But where I lose it is having the old-timey grandmother clock in the center over the TV. That should definitely go on a wall somewhere, at a normal height, over a wood table or something. Ours is right in the entry foyer (obviously a Channukah pic).

That thing is older than me and cheap as shit but I love it. It lived over the fireplace mantel in the Family Room my entire childhood...the room with the wood pillar support beams I mentioned before.

I have a grandfather clock at Sally and Paul's that is actually worth something. It's generations old and Dutch but I like this one more so I'm grateful they are willing to store that fancy one. I think Hendrik bought this small one at Sears in the 70's or so. It was probably like $35 or something at the time.

I can't remember a time in my life when I was home without hearing that pendulum ticking back and forth.

So I dig it as my centerpiece.
 
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Then it should be at eye level.

Your Chanukah clock can be hung properly in that idyllic Maine B&B of yours that makes us all jealous of you living out your life goals and having a super cool house and I hate your pantry and its window cause it makes me so mad I don't have one......

My inclusive of all faiths Eagles clock will hang where it damn well pleases.
 
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I decided to take on an art project today which was framing and hanging a shit ton of various pictures.

I'll go into the other shit in a different post but what made me think of all this in the first place was my civil war wall. I showed it to you all before I had Lincoln's second inaugural address, Sherman, Grant, and Meade.

After staring at them for a few months. I came to the conclusion that I have a civil war wall that has zero black people on it and that made me feel weird. So I bought a portrait of Frederick Douglass. And while I was on the website I saw that they had a very cool portrait of Lincoln. So I bought that too and I just framed and put them up today.


I think they look cool. Pam says the way that I hang shit that isn't symmetrical is terrible but I like it so as long as I'm living alone this is how I'm going to do it.

While I was buying the Lincoln and Douglas portraits, I also bought a portrait of Harriet Tubman and now this is where I'm going to sound like an asshole but whatever. I was unaware of how aggressively unattractive Harriet Tubman was. She was undoubtedly an amazing woman and a pivotal part of American history and the portrait I bought is clearly after all the shit she went through cuz she's wearing a super nice dress but even still I don't really want to have to look at that all the time on my wall so I think that one's going in the drawer.

 
But now I have a question for Channel98 - or should I say Thompson2525? Isn't this the avatar used by one of the assholes that was on the XM forum?

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I decided to take on an art project today which was framing and hanging a shit ton of various pictures.

I'll go into the other shit in a different post but what made me think of all this in the first place was my civil war wall. I showed it to you all before I had Lincoln's second inaugural address, Sherman, Grant, and Meade.

After staring at them for a few months. I came to the conclusion that I have a civil war wall that has zero black people on it and that made me feel weird. So I bought a portrait of Frederick Douglass. And while I was on the website I saw that they had a very cool portrait of Lincoln. So I bought that too and I just framed and put them up today.


I think they look cool. Pam says the way that I hang shit that isn't symmetrical is terrible but I like it so as long as I'm living alone this is how I'm going to do it.

While I was buying the Lincoln and Douglas portraits, I also bought a portrait of Harriet Tubman and now this is where I'm going to sound like an asshole but whatever. I was unaware of how aggressively unattractive Harriet Tubman was. She was undoubtedly an amazing woman and a pivotal part of American history and the portrait I bought is clearly after all the shit she went through cuz she's wearing a super nice dress but even still I don't really want to have to look at that all the time on my wall so I think that one's going in the drawer.

It's nice that you do this, but also odd; as you simultaneously support those who are deleting this history from American society.
 
What the hell is that reflection on the Lincoln print?
It looks like a hairy female demon riding a giant panty liner....
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That's just the public storage ghost.

Really though it is an Indonesian shadow puppet. Hendrik was born in 27 in Indonesia which wasn't exactly known for its technological dominance so they barely had silent movies at that time. Let alone anything else besides books.

So they would put on these Shadow puppet shows. And I've thought about this a lot. It's weird that they paint them so intricately because when they're actually performing no one can see that but I guess they would hang them up like I have here after the shows.

I think they're pretty cool. Mary Ann got them for Hendrik when they moved to Florida. I'm not sure if they're authentic but according to my dad they look just like the shit he used to watch when he was a kid.

 
But now I have a question for Channel98 - or should I say Thompson2525? Isn't this the avatar used by one of the assholes that was on the XM forum?

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Hahah. Well that sucks. Now I will have that in my head somewhere when I look at mine.

Also that was Grant at the battle of Cold Harbor in VA. We lost that one. What's worse is 7,000 Union men were killed in the first hour of the fight cause the Confederates were ready for them. But that loss totally changed the way Grant commanded for the rest of the war.

It's nice that you do this, but also odd; as you simultaneously support those who are deleting this history from American society.

Other than you pointing out I support MAGA I really don't know what you are specifically getting at here.

It's probably best we don't go into any more detail. If you really want to explain what I'm missing DM me.
 
And the panty liner is the hands of the portrait.
If I squint, I supposed I can see that........The hairy demon panty liner thing still seems more likely.....
That's one of his wall art pieces that we've seen many times.
I don't doubt that it was discussed before, but I don't remember the description.
That's just the public storage ghost.
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Really though it is an Indonesian shadow puppet. Hendrik was born in 27 in Indonesia which wasn't exactly known for its technological dominance so they barely had silent movies at that time. Let alone anything else besides books.
OK......now that's actually a cool story.

Do you think that any of the puppet shows were about hairy female demons?
 
That's one of his wall art pieces that we've seen many times. And the panty liner is the hands of the portrait.

It's so annoying when people forget about shit that you've clearly posted about previously right?

Remember when I forgot about how I'drather plays an instrument somewhere in Maine? I'm pretty sure it's the tuba or maybe the trombone. He got upset when it seemed like new info to me and I started teasing him about it.
 
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