Slog - Comments on The Bright Side http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side Back when I worked at The News Tribune in Tacoma, Street of Dreams would contact me every year in a bid to get me to write about the art in the houses. Which reminds me—look at the bright side of yesterday's Street of Dreams burnings: Art like this was burned to the ground!... Copyright 2008 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:59:04 -0800 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:02:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by pencil riot Now how can we burn down 95% of the art you post on Slog? Or is not having any taste your taste?

]]> pencil riot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957786 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:04:43 -0800 Comment by infrequent are you supposed to sit on those while showering?

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957790 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957790 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:05:26 -0800 Comment by isabelita Crazy crane bidets! Got nozzles for all kinds of orifices!
This kind of crap is one of the signs of civilization's end.

]]> isabelita http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957847 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957847 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:24:22 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle That staircase looks fairly awkward to use.

I guess it's true what they say about money and taste.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957852 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957852 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:27:10 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways only rich people can afford to have this much bad taste...

I've always dreamed of being able to afford to display my artwork in the shower.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957899 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:38:33 -0800 Comment by infrequent who lives in houses like this? who? with a painted veranda half-way up the stairs? i remember watching the sopranos and thinking people that poor taste in decorating didn't really exist.

i stand corrected.

and to think that before today i never though beige could be gaudy.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957903 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:39:05 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell I love that wallpaper mural with all my heart!

When I was a kid we'd go visit my "classy" Aunt Ruby. She had one of those!

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957931 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957931 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:45:25 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze What do expect from a town which produced a man... The richest man in the world... Who willingly furnishes his ENTIRE mansion with Ethan Allen furniture. ETHAN ALLEN!!! It makes me design loving blood BOIL!!!

ETHAN ALLEN!!!

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957997 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c957997 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:57:47 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Damn bathroom is bigger than my living room.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958036 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958036 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:07:43 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle This house is just a series of accidents waiting to happen. Seriously, it's a functional nightmare.

The decorator and the architect should be fired and sentenced to work on GWB's Presidential Library, using crayons.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958141 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:29:07 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @8 - um, the richest man in the world is Mexican, FYI.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958151 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958151 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:30:44 -0800 Comment by monkey I went on the Street of Dreams tour of these houses. This was the most horrid house. The house itself really sucked. The layout wasted so much good space and the way it was decorated was super extra gross. The other houses on the tour were a little better. But I'm not surprised none of them sold.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958174 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:37:17 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze @11: I'm so very sorry that I don't make it a habit to keep up with which jackass has the exactly the most money to waste on shitty ugly furniture at any given second. To clear it up, I'm talking about Bill Gates. Bill Gates is ugly and nerdy and has no taste and he used part of his obscene fortune to furnish his house entirely with hideous Ethan Allen furniture when he could. So there :P

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958204 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:47:37 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV You know, the thing I wonder--

With all of Paul Allen's billions of dollars, couldn't he afford decent dental care?

His mouth looks like a forest of jagged, tobacco-colored stumps. You'd think he could afford some decent porcelain.

Or is Vulcan lobbying the City to provide it for him?

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958220 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958220 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:51:16 -0800 Comment by Emily 11 & 8, you're both wrong. Buffett is still the top.

]]> Emily http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958306 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:25:58 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle No, sorry, you're counting his foundation, you can only count his non-foundation holdings.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958406 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:01:52 -0800 Comment by MyDogBen Oh My God I love Jen so much.

]]> MyDogBen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958418 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958418 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:12:31 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray It's the Bluth Company!

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958504 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958504 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:25:22 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze I hate when a comment is made and everyone focuses on the most annoying and irrelevant detail. Its not about who/how rich... Its about the bad taste! Goddamnit!

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958632 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958632 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:40:59 -0800 Comment by Johnny I'm glad I was never a houseguest there. With my luck, I'd knock over one of those cast-iron cranes and break the shower's glass walls!

]]> Johnny http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c958738 Visual Art Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:29:32 -0800 Comment by beenthere Actually, #8/13, it's NOT furnished in Ethan Allen at all (not that what's really there is any better...just more expensive). Don't know where you get your info: perhaps the Urban Legends store that supplies the personal-submarine/digital art that changes when you enter the room/subcutaneous microchip rumors. Alas, it's just another mansion. With no Ethan Allen.

]]> beenthere http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c960891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c960891 Visual Art Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:31:00 -0800 Comment by beenthere Actually, #8/13, it's NOT furnished in Ethan Allen at all (not that what's really there is any better...just more expensive). Don't know where you get your info: perhaps the Urban Legends store that supplies the personal-submarine/digital art that changes when you enter the room/subcutaneous microchip rumors. Alas, it's just another mansion. With no Ethan Allen.

]]> beenthere http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c960892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c960892 Visual Art Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:31:16 -0800 Comment by beenthere oops...once was enough.

]]> beenthere http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c960894 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c960894 Visual Art Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:33:17 -0800 Comment by eckerd drugs Hello! Good website, check my at http://pharmacy0.110mb.com/eckerd+drugs my name is eckerd drugs

]]> eckerd drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c963331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_bright_side#c963331 Visual Art Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:02:35 -0800