News Drying Out
posted by on September 19 at 18:51 PM
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has one of those great stories you find in The Wall Street Journal.
Here’s a snippet:
The clothesline ban gave Ms. Taylor pause when she moved here, she says, but she and her husband decided they could live with it. Then, in May, she heard an environmental lawyer on the radio who “talked about this narrow window of opportunity for us to respond to global warming,” Ms. Taylor recalls. “I said, ‘Dang it, that’s it. My clothesline is going up.’ ”Then the trouble started. One neighbor asked if it was temporary. Next came a phone call — and then a series of letters — from Brooks Resources. The first letter, dated June 12, warned that “laundry lines are not permitted in the Awbrey Butte Subdivision,” adding that “many owners in Awbrey Butte take great pride in their home and surrounding areas.”
Ms. Taylor responded two days later with a letter asserting that the rule is “outdated.” She requested a change in the rules to “reflect our urgent need and responsibility to help global warming by encouraging energy conservation.”
The Awbrey Butte Architectural Review Committee “appreciates your desire to make a difference for the cause of global warming,” responded Brooks Resources Owner-Relations Manager Carol Haworth. But she pointed out that homeowners agree to the rules before they buy their homes, “and therefore the ARC is required to uphold those guidelines as they now exist.”The letter more sternly asked “that you discontinue this practice by July 9, 2007, to avoid legal action which will be taken after that date.”
so fucking tired of these second-hand stories. josh, document your neighborhood's global warming stories, would ya? or better yet, let's hear a homerecipe for eco-conscious detergent.
Keenan,
Go down just two post for some original local stories.
I love trolling Slog for opportunities to bitch at the posters. Keeps me busy in the head.
those stories aren't about global warming. fixies are a fashion. i'd love to hear a count of all the clotheslines in capitol hill, and of course your own, josh. if you spent more time helping the community instead of watching street basketball, going to genius parties, chatting in city hall and relying on the web for your humanitarian ideas, you might give us a clue.
@3yeah, i'm busy in the head, i'm contemplating what I was just listening to on KBCS - see Lineout 2nd post to the top. eh, maybe transgenderism is a stupid thing to think about. you might be right.
eww. clothes lines? the environment isn't worth that.
This is why I would never be part of an HOA. That, and my total inability to keep my yard looking nice.
Fuck all those rich bastards. May they BE clotheslined!
@5: i can't believe a clothesline grosses you out that much!
I'm not allowed to hang clothes outside on the deck of my building, for the same silly reason - "OMG CLOTHESLINES R TRASHY!!!!oneone". Very annoying.
they sell drying racks at target for like 10 bucks. works just as well.
Clotheslines? Target? I agree with konstantConsumer. The environment is not worth that.
From the linked article:
What a snooty bitch. If she was my neighbor, my next step would be buying the most fucked up car I could find, removing the wheels, and putting it on blocks in my driveway.
Okay. Mahtli69 is officially the funniest slogger.
@10-
That's too simple, and it significantly defeats the bloated verbiage that Josh likes to toss out on Slog. The ideal method is to get confused by all of the crap he posts, argue amongst ourselves then sit around click-clacking away until someone like yourself, "duh", to just say 'in essence, you are dumbshits.'
i am so pumped to hear Feit do his self-hyped slog on slog speech at that blog affecting newsmedia thing (it didn't happen already, did it?). man, talk about mumblecore, the guy is going to rattle off like....ugh, can't wait.
actually i'm not interested in it all. after hearing him "blast-off country style" at Liberty bar the night I talked to Dan Savage, i really have no desire to be in the immediate environment of such an obnoxious twit.
I use a $10 drying rack. I think I got it at Fred Meyer.
Yes, yes, I have a drying rack, too. The point is that I have all this space outside that would be a natural place to dry clothes, rather than taking up space inside.
And Mahtli69 is right - only an idiot looks at clothes on a line and says "ewww - trashy!"
It is trashy. It's fucking poverty.
So what?
And you know that all of those HOA people are just dying to go to some small village in Italy where they can photograph the quaint village with its clotheslines strung between the buildings! Bunch of snobs!
And, OMG, it is a fucking way to dry things people!!! Man, I go on vacation and I missed all the slogs! How am I going to catch up???
I admire this woman and wish that my commitment to the environment also extended to bickering with my private community-- while waiting for a sunny day to do laundry.
White Trash Poverty is the New Global Environmental Awareness.
what is wrong with you people? clotheslines are fantastic. clothes that are air dried by the wind are much more comfortable and crisp and lovely to wear. and laundry hanging outside is nice to look at, in my book. you can make up all sorts of imaginative assumptions about the people who own the clothes, and about their lives and living situations. clearly, you naysayers have never walked through narrow european streets strung with lines and lines of clothes and sheets blowing in the breeze and have never seen how beautiful such a thing can be.
That's rich coming from you, June Bee. Didn't you used to have a different handle? I'm surprised you were able to post something here without adding some dumb band references and nonsense lyrics example and some dumb reference to some band you drove to Portland to see because they're so awesome. I care. Thanks!
When cute sorority girls hang their panties on clothes lines I will start to care.
Underwear with spots very suspicious
Underwear with bulges very shocking
Underwear on clothesline a great flag of freedom
Someone has escaped his Underwear
May be naked somewhere
Help!
"Underwear," Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I love how some posters refer to poverty as if they're describing some scabies & herpes infested, naked, dirty, old homeless guy plodding along the street. Newsflash: Poverty does not always = dirty. I can almost hear them wrinkling their noses and saying to some poor sop unfortunate enough to cross their path: "You're POOR". People like that deserve to be shot in the face.
Josh do you even know where Awbrey Butte is located? I do. Awbrey Butte is located in Bend, OR and the average house price in that area of Bend is well over $600K with many of the houses reaching the $1M mark. CCRs are put in place for a reason and if people buy in to an area that have them then it is their responsibility to abide by them. Any drive through any older shit hole subdivision that was built without CCRs tells the story.
so because i don't like poor people, i should be shot in the face?!? that's not very nice.
Sometimes poverty = cleaner than most because they can't afford disposable things so they have to make what they buy last so they end up taking better care of it.
Yes, I grew up poor-ish. Yes, we line dried clothes. We also lived out in the country and everyone else did too. Say what you will but line dried sheets are wonderful.
This is so white folks shit
My Mom used to dry our laundry in the back yard.
Never since have I had such sweet smelling sheets to slip between at night.
Of course, those were much simpler times, in another place.
@29,
Not only is Awbrey Butte in Bend, it's a fairly new development (~10-15 years), and well known as the rich neighborhood in Bend. Say, like Laurelhurst, but new money (there's no old money in Bend).
Jesus, the fucking entitlement complex some of you people have...
Frankly, I don't get Bend. It's in the middle of bloody nowhere. What on earth is the attraction? Besides, if you go an hour in any direction, houses and land are cheap as anything.
Fucking suburbs!!! Thank God I made it out...
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