if you’re a regulation grownup, you probably haven’t even heard of this movie, or if you have you didn’t consider seeing it. A teen horror flick, right? Turn of the Screw meets Pretty in Pink, or sump’n. But if you’re at all ll interested in the literary and cinematic tropes that have accreted around Mary … Continue reading Spoiler alert! “Lisa Frankenstein” review:
Author: Hypatia
Lord, I Thank Thee That I am Not As That Man..
So , Alexei Navalny, a political opponent of Putin’s , was imprisoned and has died in jail. And this proves Carlson was treasonous to interview Putin! And this proves we should bankrupt our own country and neglect our own border to prop up Ukraine ( the word means “border”, btw) ! Putin is the devil … Continue reading Lord, I Thank Thee That I am Not As That Man..
Epiphany: The Day After the Day Before
Does anybody else remember the 1980s? (I mean, were you compos mentis back then, not like, were you just getting outa diapers..) Here’s what I wanna remind you about: back then, our biggest fear, omnipresent, was nuclear annihilation. And we had grown up with having to periodically get under our desks in grade school, one hand over … Continue reading Epiphany: The Day After the Day Before
Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!
There was a bereavement this week reverberating through L1 and all of the legacy sites. And in the course of interacting online with the widow, I realized something: there are no (other) women posting on those sites. Dorothy Parker, as I’m sure you know, was a famous wit, critic and poet in the 1920s. One of … Continue reading Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!
..Another “dropped pearl” to string up with Simon’s:
Increase your Word Power!
I have had trouble ever since high school finding words I didn’t know, like when we were s’posed to look up 2 or 3 new words we had read and didn’t know the meaning of, and write out their definitions. Then my roommate told me to read Thomas Wolfe. She was right, his oeuvre yielded a … Continue reading Increase your Word Power!
January 20 again!
Selling Short: Governmental and Planned Community Regulation of Short-Term Rentals (4 of 4)
Going by the Boards Homeowners’ associations, catching a whiff of the tantalizing fee banquet, are scrambling for a place at the table. In the older covenant communities, many of which started out as religious retreats (like Lutherland), people had been discretely letting their homes to other families, often the same parties year after year; it … Continue reading Selling Short: Governmental and Planned Community Regulation of Short-Term Rentals (4 of 4)
Selling Short: Governmental and Planned Community Regulation of Short-Term Rentals (3 of 4)
Perhaps the result would have been different if he had continued with the appeal. But since the landowner’s seat was empty, the nuisance complaints prevailed. Our Supreme Court rebukedthe Commonwealth Court for its rulings in Marchenko and Shvekh, wherein it had leaned toward the principle that a use not expressly prohibited by a zoning ordinance … Continue reading Selling Short: Governmental and Planned Community Regulation of Short-Term Rentals (3 of 4)
Selling Short: Governmental and Planned Community Regulation of Short-Term Rentals (1 of 4)
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” mused William Shakespeare. Now, five centuries on, his observation is still controversial, no matter the season. A fairly ubiquitous bumper sticker, affixed to many a beat-up truck up here on the Pocono Plateau, only about a quarter century ago, read, “If this is tourist season, why can’t we … Continue reading Selling Short: Governmental and Planned Community Regulation of Short-Term Rentals (1 of 4)
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