Does My Dog Look Big In This?

Ahhhh, Seattle - home of Sub Pop, Starbucks and mutant dogs.
Let me explain. The very amusing blog Photoshop Disasters led me to a very odd property listing in Shoreline, Seattle.
As I flicked through the photos all appeared to be in order: 4 bedrooms, large living room, modern kitchen.
But then on the 7th picture in the [...]

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Trump Makes Pitch For Mega Golf Course

Internationally famous tycoon Donald Trump and his equally famous side-parting descended upon Scotland this week for an inquiry into his plans to build the ‘world’s greatest golf course’ north of Aberdeen.
Of course, Scotland is widely regarded as being the home of golf but it turns out it’s also the ancestral home of Mr Trump, his [...]

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Bouncing Off The Walls? Try A Rubber House.

Willem Dafoe’s rubber pad is up for sale according to the celeb real-estate website The Real Estalker and rather nice it is too. If rubber is your thing that is.

It’s only rubber clad, so it’s not strictly a rubber house … that’d be silly. It’d wobble around far too much and smell like an inner tube. Not [...]

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Isn’t It Ironic? Don’t Cha Think?

The guv’nor and ‘is bird
We’re not talking Alanis Morrisette “rain on your wedding day” irony here, we’re talking actual, implying-the-opposite-of-what-is-the-case kind of irony - the kind that has you scratching your head like an evolutionary throwback while emitting a series of bewildered guttural croaks.
The cause of my confusion, bordering upon chagrin, stems from Guy Ritchie’s [...]

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Squatters Claim Artistic Licence

My sister’s ultimate dream was realised the other week when it was revealed that a bunch of ingenious artists had set up home in a shopping centre.
Or mall rather, since these bohos were of the American variety, and were in it for the artistic experience not the cut-price shoes.
That’s right, eight creative types set up [...]

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Bunker Mentality

If an Englishman’s home is his castle, then it seems that an American’s home is his missile base.

Ten years ago businessman Bari Hotchkiss bought a decommissioned Titan Missile Base in Central Washington to be used as a summer camp for his children.
Just imagine…
“Hey kids, we’re off to summer camp!”
“Daddy, will we be climbing trees, swimming [...]

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