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I was invited to an apartment warming at my brother's newish place the other night and since I had already treated him to a whole new garden, hereby known as "The Gift That Covers Me Off for Gift Giving Until 2010," I decided I wanted to bring something but that that something should be simple and not cost money. The great thing about gardening, beyond the thousands of other more important reasons, is that there is always something available last-minute to gift to friends. I can just step outside and find homegrown edibles or flowers in a pinch that just about anyone will appreciate.
After all, who doesn't like homegrown food or flowers? Granted, I'm sure if we looked hard enough we could find one or two out there in America but still…
As I was saying, a gift was in order. A gift that says, "Congratulations on your new apartment! Here's something nice and useful to commemorate a meaningful life step but, you know, you're my brother and dude, until I get a higher paying job or miraculously unearth a winning scratch ticket buried in the street garden… enjoy some quality homegrown herbs and edible delights." Of course, I'm saying that cynically because in truth a winning scratch ticket would not change my desire to share the homegrown goodness. I'd just wrap it all in fresh, crisp hundred dollar bills.
And that is what I did (minus the cash money). My brother has been speaking highly of his new herb garden and all of the delicious herbed omelets he has been enjoying however I knew his plants were still small and were probably strained by enthusiastic and vigorous picking. My plants on the other hand are all well-established. I am actually over-run this year with sage, oregano and marjoram. I have been making herbal bouquets for myself for some time now and it only made sense to harvest a selection of yummy herbs, tie it up like a floral bouquet and give it as a gift. Flowers are nice but this bouquet keeps on giving. What's more my bouquet was literally free since the butcher paper and twine was recycled from the packaging used to wrap flowers bought at the market. Yes, I have become my grandmother, holding onto every last scrap of packaging in hope of a possible future use.
The bouquet I made for my brother is not the one depicted. That one included garlic scapes I had picked just that day, as well as a selection of assorted thyme varieties and large sprigs of fresh rosemary. The gift was a surprise hit with party goers wondering about that twisted oddity (garlic scapes) poking out of the bundle. I'm sure if my bouquet had included homegrown herbs of another sort I would have made a lot of new friends fast… however it did not and the love fest lasted a total of 10 minutes.
If you make your own, choose whatever you've got on hand or try for herbs that compliment one another. Help the recipient unwrap the package as soon as possible and get the herbs into water so that anything that has wilted can be revived. This is also your chance to talk about the herbs so your friend knows a garlic scape from a frightening alien life form and how they can use them in their next meal.


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Hopefully Marcos doesn't drag out another 5-setter (like he always seems to do ) before Maria comes on to play.
In The Meantime...
UPDATE: Sorry Dominika, but VALERIA SAVINYKH is thru to the 3rd round. MOLODYETS! Russia gotta another little live one. Girl COULD conceivably get through to meet Masha in the fourth Round.
Valeria Savinykh at Bastad last year: (Click for full size) Thanx to Rix643 at tennisforum.
Ah yes. The quadruple bagel
Another easy match for Maria! 6-0 6-0 again! The match time was less than 50 minutes! But I think the most unbelievable news for today is Stosur's losing! Zheng played very well and beat Stosur in her own country! So one of the WTA top players goes out of AO!Go Go Maria
Another double bagel for Maria! Bring on Venus or Alize. Maria is more than ready.
4 bagels in the row....WOW!!!!
Venus is a tough opponent. It's going to be a heavy rally. Maria serve must be perfect and HIT well from the baseline as well.
Best of luck Maria,
Maria will be playing Venus tomorrow at 7pm in the Rod Laver Arena!
Yes!! Can catch this match!
Stay strong Masha! :D
After two easy matches now it's time for a real and tough match against Venus! If Maria concentrates on her serves and plays with more confidence, she will beat Venus easily! I believe that Maria will beat Venus!Go Go Maria
No need to worry about Maria's shoulder.. I'm convinced it was all fake and just an excuse to get out of Brisbane. She went straight to Melbourne and a couple of days later...when she should have been playing...she was out doing a shoot and making appearences and preparing Sugapova for its launch.
But...WTA insist on an excuse or you get fined around 10 grand. Did you see in the earlier interview...She sent her injury to Doctor X in the USA by Email....how did she do that? He diagnosed the Email and told her not to play...clever.
Photoshoots are not arranged in a couple of days, they are planned months in advance. I get tired of reading all her lies. guess I should just stop reading them.
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Beware - They are Crooks! – If you have stayed here or plan to stay here, make sure you check your credit card statements. Four months after I stayed there - they continued to place charges on my credit card company and their accounting department refused to refund them. It was a nightmare - this is a business hotel and people probably use company credit cards which enables them to steal so easily. I am not the only one this has happened to - beware, beware, beware!
If you need to stay in Century City, stay at the Hyatt Regency just two blocks away, it is much nicer and a much better hotel than this place is!
Wonderful spa facilities and very professional staff – We stayed at this hotel Sat-Mon in July. All of the staff were extremely courteous, which is extremely important to me. I had a delicious breakfast of lemon brioche french toast with berries, which came to about $18. I had a massage at the spa, which has outstanding facilities. I received my one hour massage in a private and very modern suite-type room, with private shower and private jacuzzi tub (infinity style), which came to $125. The spa slippers are so nice, I took them home (which they allow). Overnight parking is approx $30 and I don't remember seeing any option to self-park and there isn't any street parking. The room is nice and very comfortable but nothing to write home about. The nice bonus was the balcony but the two drags were a shower that fit only one person at a time and the $9.99 ethernet access.
Lovely rooms, but far from perfect – We recently spent four nights at the Intercontinental, and on the whole, we enjoyed our stay. Our room was large, comfortable, and nicely decorated. The front desk staff, valet, and concierge were all very professional. I'll never understand why luxury hotels can't seem to provide some of the basic amenities that business hotels like Embassy Suites provide gratis. The Intercontinental doesn't even offer wireless internet; you can use their wired network for $10 per day, but it's a shame to be tethered to the desk when there's such a big room to enjoy. Housekeeping was disorganized and spotty. The hotel provides nice toiletries, but the housekeeping staff fails to replenish them daily. We returned to our room at 3PM one day after several hours out, and our room had not yet been cleaned. I've come to enjoy in-room coffee makers at hotels, but the Intercontinental doesn't provide one or offer coffee in the lobby. The only option is room service, which comes to about $20 for coffee for two people. How silly is that? We enjoyed our stay at the Intercontinental, but there were too many small inconveniences to give the place a higher rating.
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The huge federal fiscal stimulus funds now heading to state governments seems likely to yield a strong bang for the buck, according to an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco…
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In this week's Martha Jefferson Healthwise report CBS19's Stephanie Satchell looks at risk factors, the signs and symptoms of heart disease and why they are different in women.
Dr. Christina Bove is a cardiologist at Blue Ridge Heart and Vascular. She sees many patients with cardiovascular issues and many of them don't even know they have a condition specially women.
"Women typically don't present with the same chest pain that men present with. They more frequently will present with nausea or vomiting, often shortness of breath, sometimes just fatigue or generalized weakness or back or neck pain or upper abdominal pain," said Dr. Christina Bove, Cardiologist, Blue Ridge Heart and Vascular.
Because of these atypical symptoms, women often don't find out until it's too late.
"That's why it's often not diagnosed. Up to 65% of women die from an acute heart attack that's their first presenting symptom," said Dr. Bove.
Dr. Bove says there are several conditions or habits that can put you at risk.
"So, the traditional risk factors would be diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. In addition to that, inactivity, obesity and smoking, (are also risk factors)" said Dr. Bove.
The more risk factors you have, the more your chances of having heart issues increases.
"Having just one of the risk factors doubles the risk for heart disease and having two risk factors quadruples the risk for heart disease," said Dr. Bove.
Now Dr. Bove is trying to spread the word about prevention. She says starting early with exercise and watching your cholesterol can make all the difference later in life.
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King Russell Edgington: Royal Pain In the Neck
Posted Jun 21, 2010 @ 11:02 AM
Talk about His Royal Nuttiness, King Russell here.
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Posted Jul 19, 2010 @ 3:48 PM
What I don't get is why protect Sookie from Russell? The Queen, clearly, already knows about Sookie. Are we to believe the queen is a better option than Russell? We've already seen that she's crazy and mercurial. Heck, once she finds out about Sookie's special gifts she might sell her to the highest vampire bidder or farm her out. Russell, at least, seems to have a long term plan.
Not that Sookie is any less screwed either way.
Perhaps we ARE to believe that the queen is a better option. Either way is forced servitude, but at least the Queen is on home turf. Though if Russell's marriage/takeover of Louisiana proceeds, who knows. His long term plan may be much more harmful to humans in general than, say, sitting around in the day room at the Queen's palace till she needs someone telepath-ied up.
Besides werewolves under his employ/addicted to him, and seeing him feed on Ann in the last episode, have we seen Russell interact with other non-supe humans at his compound? Or anywhere else?
Posted Jul 19, 2010 @ 7:17 PM
Posted Jul 21, 2010 @ 4:19 PM
The actor who is playing Russell is doing a great job. His words convey just the right facade of "Southern gentlemanliness" with an undercurrent of menace.
Agreed, I wasn't sold completely till the last 2 episodes but man they made a good choice with his casting.
Posted Jul 27, 2010 @ 9:20 AM
And Denis O'Hare is actually rather attractive as well as being compelling in the role.
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Posted Jul 28, 2010 @ 3:49 PM
IDK, I was thinking that he was doing a pretty good job. Like the jacket he had on in this episode was pretty modern, and he usually seems to wear some nice colors. I like his style, except for his white horse riding outfit.
Is it just me, or do Russell's clothes just scream "Old Man!"? He dresses like a wealthy grandfather, which kind of makes sense, but amuses me nonetheless.
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Posted Aug 2, 2010 @ 9:08 AM
If I was Denis O'Hare, I would of had the time of my life portraying this role. He's so awesome.
Posted Aug 3, 2010 @ 4:49 AM
I'd assume he's been in the Southern US for at least a couple decades to pick up such an accent. From the looks of him, I'd guess he'd be from ancient Northern Europe, but I have no skills for that.
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Posted Aug 3, 2010 @ 11:03 AM
Nice guess, but wrong. According to interviews of Denis O'Hare and AB himself, King is from the opposite part of Europe. From south-east, more precisely, my area: Balkans... and if he is old as they claim to be, than he is probably of the Celtics origin
Any ideas on where Russell is from? ... I'd guess he'd be from ancient Northern Europe...
Posted Aug 3, 2010 @ 9:29 PM
All Hail the King of Mississippi. Russell Edgington is a bad ass.
If I was Denis O'Hare, I would of had the time of my life portraying this role. He's so awesome.
ITA. Russell may not be the "king of all vampires" but he should be. Maybe that's his plan...?
Posted Aug 4, 2010 @ 9:33 AM
Nice guess, but wrong. According to interviews of Denis O'Hare and AB himself, King is from the opposite part of Europe. From south-east, more precisely, my area: Balkans... and if he is old as they claim to be, than he is probably of the Celtics origin
Any ideas on where Russell is from? ... I'd guess he'd be from ancient Northern Europe...
Does he change his name and style and accent every 100 years or so? I can't imagine a 3000 year-old vampire with the given name "Russell Edgington." How does he choose his name and persona?
Or, is all of this just nitpicking? Either way, I'm happy Russell is who he is. I hope he sticks around, although I fear he is a one season-only villain.
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Posted Aug 8, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Spoilerish spec ahead: If Russell doesn't start doing right by Talbot and I don't mean just he occasional booty call, then Talbot might find someone who will and if that someone happens to be Eric, it would serve Russell right. If Talbot willingly confirms Eric's suspicions about Russell killing his family, then so be it. On another note, kudos to Denis O'Hare, who has not only made King Russell True Blood's greatest villain, he could be one of the greatest TV villains of all time.
Edited by Prettyeyes, Aug 8, 2010 @ 1:03 PM.
Posted Aug 8, 2010 @ 1:37 PM
If Russell thinks that ignoring Talbot, letting him be dissed in his own home and never taking him anywhere won't also come back to haunt him, then he's even dumber than Sookie & Jason combined, which is a frightening thought.
I don't think Russell is dumb or naive, but I do think that he has become consumed with his own power. Powerful men tend to think that they can't be brought low... but pride always comes before destruction. He definitely takes Talbot for granted; I guess after 700 years, it was bound to happen. Another thing I've wondered is why Russell even associates with someone like Franklin. He finances him, and cleans up after all of his messes and woman drama. There has to be something more to that relationship besides Franklin being a great PI. And I wonder why Russell lets Franklin disrespect Talbot, since Talbot is supposed to be Russell's love and all.
Posted Aug 8, 2010 @ 3:47 PM
Russell. Sophie-Anne. The Magister. Eric. This season is all about vampire politics - about attaining status, power, territory. Franklin? Well, that doesn't seem to be his bag at all. Play the slots. Do a bit of sleuthing. Terrorise unsuspecting women with death-wishes. He's got no agenda, no wish to rise to the top. For Russell - who presumably trusts very few people - it must be...refreshing. Ask him a straight question, get a straight answer.
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Posted Aug 8, 2010 @ 4:37 PM
That said, Denis is playing Russell with such easyness, one would think it's a piece of cake. He manages to portray so many things about him with so little face/voice/gesture changing, it's amazing! Where was this guy before?
I quoted your opinion where we talk about Franklin, just so others can see it. We were brainstorming so much about nature of R/F r-ship, yet this explanation never came up.
Edited by December13, Aug 8, 2010 @ 4:41 PM.
Posted Aug 8, 2010 @ 4:45 PM
I'm probably wrong about my little theory (especially given the fact that TB is a big old x-rated soap opera)! But I just thought...if you're King of the hill, where do you get a truthful, straightforward answer from? Not from your sycophantic minions, not from the other vampires who have their own interests at heart. And probably not from Talbot: Russell loves him IMO, but he does treat him like the 'little woman', and it doesn't seem to me that he'd respect Talbot's opinion on political or work matters.
I can buy that Russell and Franklin go way back - are friends even - but I can't see Russell employing him in any capacity unless he trusted him. And given Franklin's poor impulse control (to put it mildly!), he's probably not someone who'd censor himself, even to Russell.
Posted Aug 9, 2010 @ 9:58 AM
Denis O'Hare is amazing, isn't he? I haven't seen him in anything else, but I know he's done a lot of impressive stagework.
O.M.G. yes! I continue to be enthralled by DO'H's Russell Edgington and will checking out whatever other roles he's played.
I can buy that Russell and Franklin go way back - are friends even - but I can't see Russell employing him in any capacity unless he trusted him. And given Franklin's poor impulse control (to put it mildly!), he's probably not someone who'd censor himself, even to Russell.
Ah, but the impulse control problems seem to be a minor flaw from Russell's perspective, compared with Franklin's value as a detective. Franklin did find the information on Bill that Russell was after so he's good at getting results. Also, maybe Russell indulges Franklin because he finds him more amusing than troublesome.
Edited by mshepnj, Aug 9, 2010 @ 10:08 AM.
Posted Aug 10, 2010 @ 8:35 AM
Re: Russell's true geographical origin: it's from the "druid people", but from where exactly?
From this interview, O'Hare talks about the people coming from east of Danube. And he says they moved west. Yes, that's the origin of the druid people, they arrived to the British Isles in the end. And they are not Celts, because this is an era BEFORE the Celts, who are from the Iron Age (starting nearly 800 BC in Europe, while human Russell's date of birth is probably around 850 BC). And yes, it's not possible Edgington is his human name, he surely took it not too many centuries ago. But it's the only lead we have to establish its geographical origin, because if he just took an English name randomly, he could be from everywhere. It's true that O'Hare also talks about his initial researches on Charlemagne, whom can be considered a Germanic figure, but I don't know if he intended Russell as someone linked even loosely to the German area. It strikes as strange to me for a Germanic immortal to assume a modern English name in the end, instead of a modern German one. Unless Russell Edgington is the name he took after being a nazi in WWII, as many Germans did before coming to the U.S. in order to hide their not-so-welcomed German origins.
Posted Aug 10, 2010 @ 8:50 AM
That aside, though, I don't see why he would have to stick with his origin where names are concerned. Talbot obviously doesn't, after all, and I think Russell would have created his aliases after his needs - for instance when he was moving in Germany in the 1930s/40s, he likely used a German name. O'Hare has said that Russell has used many names and disguises, that he speaks countless languages. He doesn't really have to restrict himself to just one area, and since English names are rather common in the US, it makes sense to use one if you want to blend in.
Edited by grim squeaker, Aug 10, 2010 @ 9:14 AM.
Posted Aug 10, 2010 @ 9:22 AM
This issue is not without ramifications, anyway. Some vampires are young enough to use the same modern name they had when they were humans. Bill Compton, for instance. Yet Bill Compton died 150 years ago. The "disguise among humans" concept (still standing 2 years ago, before the Revelation) would suggest he had to use some other name during 20th century - and he did, as we see him and Lorena disguising as French in the 1920s. Now he uses his original name, though. So he never felt too much attachment to his aliases. Why Russell is still stuck with his last human-disguising name, instead?
We only know two other very old vampires, predating surnames conventions: Godric and Eric. I agree Godric was meant as a very ancient-sounding name. But it could be the name Godric was using when he and Eric met in "Vikingland". They bonded so much that Godric still used that name in the 21th century, among vampires. As far as we know, Texas Federal Register (or whatever) has him listed as John Anderson, born 1989, son of the late William Anderson, born 1965 (being still Godric himself), and so on.
Eric chose to sport his real birth name, adding the location surname "Northman" when the surnames are starting to be used, and making this his vampire name since. Or maybe Northman is just the last of his human-disguising surnames. If so, Eric (and more importantly, Charlaine Harris and/or Alan Ball) chose a name that reminds us of Eric's geographical origins. I just wonder why that's not true for Russell as well.
Edited by K42, Aug 10, 2010 @ 9:33 AM.
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Posted Aug 10, 2010 @ 10:35 AM
Why Russell is still stuck with his last human-disguising name, instead?
We don't know how long he had it, though. It might have been for the last two years, i.e. as long as he seems to have been in Mississippi.
As for why Talbot calls him Russell, on a Watsonian level, I chalk that up to us never seeing him addressing Russell without witnesses. Maybe they don't want Marcus, Timothy, Claus and the rest of the boytoy minions to know their real names. Maybe Talbot doesn't even know his real name.
Ultimately, we don't know, so all we can do is speculate. We're simply coming to different conclusions, that's all.
For a show that's liberal with man on man stuff, it's a little disheartening that we didn't even see the two of them at least kiss. I would've preferred that to Talbot/Eric to be honest.
I liked Talbot/Eric (well, the whole staking thing obviously makes it a bit uncomfortable), but I agree, we should have seen some intimacies between the royal couple. Maybe in flashbacks?
Posted Aug 10, 2010 @ 3:47 PM
Honestly, I don't think this show is all that liberal with man on man stuff. But yes, it would have been nice to have seen at least one tender moment between Talbot and Russell before Talbot's death. Russell's reaction was great, but it might have connected with viewers more if we'd seen some interaction between the two of them.
For a show that's liberal with man on man stuff, it's a little disheartening that we didn't even see the two of them at least kiss.


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Ape Lad sez, "I somehow ended up reading about spite houses (homes built specifically to piss off a neighbor) this evening, which I had never heard of before. Flickr has several when you search the tags, including the sad story behind this house in Connecticut."
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38 Responses to "Spite Houses, built to piss off the neighbors"
jtegnell says:
Gosh, #16, don't tell us what that country is, now. Make us guess.
Anonymous says:
I never knew the real story behind the Alameda Spite House. By the way, it has a nice stained glass window over the door that says SPITE. Plus, I thought it was unique. Thanks for the info.
stack says:
It wasn't really a spite house, but when I was in college, my school bought all of the land in the surrounding area, but they could never buy this little bar in the middle of all of the property.
The place was a hole-in-the-wall. It was an eye soar on the otherwise nice looking campus. It was finally sold to the school for $1,000,000.
Dan Mac says:
There is also the Sam Kee building in Vancouver's Chinatown,in The Guiness Book as the world's thinnest commercial building, built by Mr. Kee after his other property was expropriated without payment:
aaronjupiter says:
And then there are the Spite Fences. Millionaire Charles Crocker built an insane one in San Francisco:
bhelverson says:
Down in sunny Laredo, Texas, Hilton was building a new hotel down by the Rio Grande. A family wouldn't sell, so the Hilton built around them. Last time I saw it, the Hilton parking lot had a hovel in the middle.
Under today's law in many States, the City could have legally taken the family's property for a private purpose. Maybe not in Texas, though. They take property rights very seriously down there.
airship says:
Awesome! It almost makes me wish I hated someone badly enough to build a spite house!
BarelyFitz says:
We have an entertaining zoning battle here in Georgia. In a million-dollar neighborhood, a man bought a 1.2 acre lot and wanted to have it rezoned from agricultural to residential use, and to split the lot for two houses. His neighbors thought splitting the lot would reduce the value of their own mansions, so they opposed it.
So he said "you want agriculture? you got it!" and turned his lot into "The Swamp of Dunwoody":
Bender says:
Here in my town in middle America, we have plenty of bad architecture, but we too have to notify everyone within several hundred feet of the building site that we have plans, and that they can be seen at the local zoning commissioner's office. We fought and won against someone who was planning to move a house that was too big to fit within the restrictions of a neighboring lot.
I believe that most of my neighborhood would show up livid at city hall if a permit for something like the example above ever was ever proposed.
dculberson says:
People get so worked up about things! At first blush it might seem sad or petty, but it's also interesting and makes you wonder what it must be like to be that angry and dedicated. I would probably just give up and move on – is my life better for it? I don't know.
shMerker says:
Yeah exactly. That's how you know these people were dedicated. They weren't going to settle for some temporary annoyance. No sir, they wanted revenge that would last.
Man, what would you even do after that? I mean, after you've built the house, then what? You still have to live next door to these people, and saying "I'm sorry" isn't really going to look all that sincere if you leave your giant freaking eyesore in everybody's way. Which it looks like a lot of people do. How do these stories end?
cinemajay says:
Along the Jersey shore there are tons of mansions built on the graves of long-gone cottages. They're 3+ stories with about as much proximity to one another so neighbors can't get a view of the beach. Since most of those tiny towns are hungry for the taxes these McMansion beach houses generate they don't enforce (or even bother amending) building codes.
Anonymous says:
Wow, I used to ride the bus by the Alameda spite house every morning, I always wondered what the deal was with that place.. how interesting!
Crawford Tillinghast says:
Didn't the Order of the Phoenix use one of those as their headquarters at one point?
xaxa says:
No. The Order of the Phoenix was in a normal (except for being hidden from muggles) house on a square in London.
Something like this (those are obviously nice houses, other squares have cheaper ones).
LostMachine says:
Not a total Spite house, but some attic vents installed with spite in mind.
Anonymous says:
we live by some jerk who was denied bldg. permit…did not meet zoning size…so he cut all the trees in half and painted them pink…he maintained it for a few years to piss off the neighbors who had objected…nice.
Anonymous says:
This just can't happen in New Zealand these days as we have a planning concent process. Before anything is built the builder needs to get the permission of every neighbour that will be able to see the new building and give their approval. Tough eh?
IamInnocent says:
This is sad, so sad, and pitiful.
blueelm says:
Haha. I think these are wonderful and show how creatively people can use space for living quarters if they want. I don't know but to me the best way for it to really be spiteful is to make it work. For instance especially those who were made paltry offers for their land. What better way to prove the land is valuable than to put a usable residence on it, rent it out, and profit. Most of these houses are actually nice anyway. I wouldn't mind living in the skinny house in London, for instance… if I had the millions to do it.
guernican says:
Genuinely a phenomenon I'd never heard of before. Is it any wonder our species is doomed?
The Wikipedia entry seems to be a little light on non-American Spite Houses. Is this just a natural colonial Anglophone bias or is there more spite to go round in the good old US of A?
Matt J says:
At least in the UK, I think it would be difficult to build a 'spite house'. We have a planning permission process for new buildings, which means that you have to announce what you're building, and neighbours have the opportunity to object to it. In the case of a spite house, an objection would likely succeed.
f24nk says:
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danwarning says:
That was me who posted that Connecticut story a few years ago, neat!
What I can add to the tale is that the state accused Jan Pol of being the father of the child (which anyone who knew anything about him would emphatically deny) in order to gain leverage to take his granddaughter away. He also built a giant wall of bottles and concrete near the "cake-house" which I think may've been more for his amusement than anything. Anyway you look at it, it's a sad tale.
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dingoblue says:
How about NON spite houses??
Like the one in Australia where the guy who built his superhouse overlooking the local beach, built it in such a way that the locals could 'check' the surf in their cars from the top of the hill without his roof(flat and low for that reason) obstructing the view of the waves….
Lets celebrate that!
Teapunk says:
Why would you do this? "Ha ha, I'll build my house right there, that will show them" – and then what? Live there? Everyday in front of people you hate that much? Or get "objectionable people" as renters who will quite possible stir up even more anger?
What a waste of a lifetime.
Simon Bradshaw says:
Further to Matt J's reply at 7, even before the modern planning permission system came in in the UK there were often local regulations against overcrowding of houses. There's also a long-standing English common-law provision of Ancient Lights that gives a remedy to a householder whose light has been cut off by a neighbour's construction.
Anonymous says:
Here in Hamilton Ontario Canada, a plaza/mall was built 20 years ago — but one homeowner wouldn't sell. So they left him there — a single tiny house surrounded by a large parking lot.
Eventually they did get the property, though, and tore it down. So -1 for character!
MadRat says:
I thought the only spite house was in Seattle. I've heard three different stories about it, two involving divorce. One is that the judge demanded that the ex-husband build a house for his ex-wife that would be no smaller than 860 square feet, he had it build to exactly that size but too narrow to be comfortably lived in. Another story was that the ex-husband got the house and the ex-wife got the front yard which she built a house on to annoy her ex-husband. The third story was that a neighbor made an insultingly low offer for a tiny slice of adjoining land the house was build to annoy the neighbor. I suppose, in theory, all three could be correct.
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Anonymous says:
Well the spite house is a little old place that
I built to piss you off!
The spite house bay-ay-beeee!
The spite house baby!
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jtegnell says:
Living, as I have for some time now, in the greater Tokyo area, at first glance I wasn't sure what was so spiteful about this house. The large majority of structures here could be deemed "spite" by that standard.
And looking at the Flikr "spitehouses" link above, it seems there are only five or six, as half are of the same house.
Kind of disappointing.
iansmithlv says:
In japan it's really common to stubbornly hold on to old family property, forcing a developer to build around your house or business. The resulting structure is usually a spitefully built middle finger like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/94348630@N00/4195835977/ still under construction building in Kumamoto Japan.
Anonymous says:
'Spite House' in Lichfield, UK: http://www.twinningfineart.co.uk/gallerydetail.php?cat=church
Moriarty says:
Ha. I created the original Wikipedia article for spite houses a few years ago, with just the one in Manhattan as an example. Looks like a lot of people had others. Oh, spite!
vipsanius says:
There was a guy in China called Yang Wu who stood out against a developer, it's worth looking at what happened to him! This must be quite common as there is even a name for this situation, "Nail houses".
Anonymous says:
That's got to be like living in a two story single wide trailer.
bishophicks says:
I regulary drive past a house in my town that has an historical society plaque on it that describes the house as being built to "block the view into town" of the house across the street which was owned by the builder's brother.
Anonymous says:
I do not understand.
In my country you would not be allowed to build such house.
There are LOTS and LOTS of regulations concerning building. And your neighbor can make an objection, and he can sue you if you diminish value if his land / house / whatever by building something.
You have to get a permission from neighbor in order to build your house closer than [I think] four meters from his land.


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And this is one he'd be especially ill suited for, I should think .
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Of course, what Superman obviously needs is a heavy dose of "Project N.O.W.H.E.R.E."... lol no.
...Hmm...I don't think he's a bad writer in the least--in fact, I'm enjoying Red Hood and Teen Titans--but I'm not 100% sold. It has potential, though. Would probably be better than Jurgens writing it.
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I think he's doing pretty good on the books he does write, but I don' think he's the right guy for Superman.
It's almost as if DC is doing everything in it's power to ensure I'll never again buy a Superman title that's not penned by that mangy Scots git.
Ugh. What is it going to take to get an A-list in-his-prime writer on this book? I'm assuming Lobdell would drop one of his other titles for this, and he is okay and all, but...
COME ON!!!! This should be one of the flagship titles!
No. I know he's busy with Smallville: Season 11, but can't DC give Bryan Q. Miller a chance?
Well..I like him, certainly, but I'm with others wondering if he's a fit for the character. And he does have a lot on his plate as it is. But more importantly, why, for a flagship title, is Superman continuously being passed like a hot potato like this? Its concerning to say the least.
We'll see. I think his books have faults (his last two issues of Teen Titans were verbous to the point of unconsciousness), but they still manage to be fun most of the times, I will try before passing judgment.
But surely, 4 books is kind of overkill. They should give other people more chances.
I mean, it's Superman, people are gonna buy it no matter who writes it.
So Giffen to Legion and Lobdell to Superman?
It seems very strange to me that even as Superman is supposed to be younger, 'hipper', more relatable... that the Superman team seems astoundingly opposed to putting any younger talent on their books.
I mean, Morrison is certainly capable of doing new and vibrant and what not, but he's quite an old man at this point. Green and Johnson are hardly young, certainly they don't scream 'youth' in the work they do; Scott Lobdell has to be in his forties and fifties. Perez, Giffen, Jurgens...a veterans.
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Malaysia Airlines Increases In-flight Entertainment Choices For Customers
Subang (17 February 2012) : Malaysia Airlines has increased the content of its inflight Movies, TV programmes and Songs Library on all Boeing 737-800, 777-200, 747-400 and new Airbus 330-300 aircraft in its fleet.
Starting 2012, the national carrier has substantially increased the in-flight entertainment (IFE) content by 100% for both Hollywood movies from 30 to 60 and Audio CD selections from 200 to 400, 80% for TV content from 94 to 170 programs and 50% for international movies from 24 to 36.
Malaysia Airlines' Head of Customer Experience, Dato' Mohd Salleh Ahmad Tabrani said, "We are always looking for ways to enhance the inflight experience of our customers and offer them more choices. They can now choose up to 60 Hollywood films, double the number offered when the IFE was first installed. Included in this are new film titles like Happy Feet Two and The Adventures of TinTin, plus the top 10 highest grossing movies of all times."
"We want our customers to enjoy world class IFE experience during their journeys with us. The increased content also means that they will be able to watch something new every time they travel," he added.
The airline plans to extend this upgrade later this year to cover the contents of Going Places, its monthly travel magazine; Select, its in-flight entertainment guide; and Temptations, the in-flight sales catalogue.
Malaysia Airlines B737-800 fleets are equipped with the AVOD (Audio Video on Demand) system by Panasonic XSeries on selected routes which enables passenger to control, view and listen to the IFE at their own leisure. Its new Airbus 330-300 fleet has the latest Panasonic eX2™ in-flight entertainment system where it can be programmed to route specific while the B747-400 and B777-200 fleets are currently equipped with s3000i from Panasonic.
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- Includes a two-three man tent measuring 2m X 2m X 1.3m
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It doesn't matter if you're a seasoned camper or someone who wants to pitch a tent in the backyard, the complete camping package from Karno has everything you need. Normally this bundle would set you back $529, but it's all yours for only $199. So, what is included? Glad you asked!
You can stretch out in your spacious, two-three person high dome tent (2m x 2m x 1.3m) with a double-wall design to add durability and protect you from all of Mother Nature's elements.
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Then slip into your deluxe adult-sized sleeping bags (195cm x 75cm) and get some well-earned zzz's! Throw in two large, fold-up camping chairs that come with carry cases and drink holders in the arm rest, and torches for some late-night animal spotting and you've got yourself everything you need for the ultimate camping experience.
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