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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:22 PM Original message |
Life in Barton's district: I repainted my house, therefore I must be a MEXICAN!! |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yup. They truly do hate anything not like them |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 05:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. worse, the educated scare the shit out of them, so |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. Having been raised in San Antonio |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 06:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. It also helped that there was documentation that the color she chose |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
38. I went to college in San Antonio. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. I live in an area with a lot of Mexican immigrants |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 01:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. I see a similar sort of thing in coastal North Atlantic towns |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I think poor folks just love color |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:36 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I don't know if I would be classified as rich or poor, but... |
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midnight armadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
48. not my house! |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:10 AM Response to Reply #10 |
53. Maybe it's to counteract the bleakness of the weather? |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. I meant to respond to you but got waylaid -- I was seriously going |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. Cupcake landers got the law to come stop my contractor from painting my house |
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NBachers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 12:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. "Sombrero Tacos- Home of the Guadalupe Guacamole" |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
28. San Francisco is ALL about the color! |
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NBachers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Sounds pretty Bahamian to me- we don't have enough Caribbean influence here |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 12:40 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Yup -- |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. It's been great to see some recent house painting in the Haight... |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Don't get me started on the gentrified beige boxes -- |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:42 PM Response to Reply #34 |
47. I visited a friend who lived in the Mission recently... |
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NBachers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 07:27 PM Response to Reply #32 |
59. Well, yeah, but there've been a few Mission projects I'd tip my hat to |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 01:17 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Sounds nice. Cupcake landers? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 06:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. HOAs can actually be quite powerful. They can put a lein on your mortgage. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
6. If you have some artists in the family, do a fresco type painting |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 01:07 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Great idea. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
11. kick for t he insomniacs. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 04:36 AM Response to Original message |
12. In 1990 when Donna bought the house |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 05:40 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. We made it on the front page of the paper when we painted our shop... |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. That's cool. |
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NBachers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:58 AM Response to Reply #15 |
30. YEAH! AND TONE DOWN THAT SIGN, TOO! |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 07:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
63. Love it. Love it. Love it. |
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Laughing Mirror (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 05:07 AM Response to Original message |
13. You mean, something like this? |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #13 |
29. Wow! |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #13 |
40. That is just AWESOME!!!! |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
17. Really piss 'em off & paint your door purple |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
19. You ought to mess with their heads and paint some of those |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. Wow, that's some major stupid, there! |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
22. I live in Barton's district |
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Mojeoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:07 AM Response to Reply #22 |
52. Good for you! |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
23. In a city near where I used to live, there were a bunch |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. Ha! I love things like that. (nt) |
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BuddhaGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. GREAT story!! |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:24 AM Response to Reply #23 |
54. :teary eyed: i love happy endings... |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
25. Put the Peoples History in his childrens hands. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
41. I already have a copy of it, and am waiting to give it to the kid. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
27. Actually, the colors make it sound sort of Moroccan... |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 04:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
44. Do the bedroom Moroccan-style |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
37. They'd just buy the tacos and criticize you over dinner. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. I don't go to church or football games, either. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. It sounds beautiful. Reminds me of the design for the rehabbed Victorians |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 05:05 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. It is beautiful :) |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 12:57 AM Response to Reply #46 |
51. Thanks, Ken! |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:31 AM Response to Reply #51 |
55. Okay, either a pair of demon-dogs |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:44 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Yeah those look like fun! |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
39. My house made a splash when we changed it from white to |
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KonaKane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
45. If we make our homes colorful, the terrorists win. |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
49. Tomorrow greet him with, "Salam alaikum, my brother". |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
50. Just updated my blog, dear fans!!!! PICTURES!! |
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Born_A_Truman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:39 AM Response to Reply #50 |
56. I love colors! I had my place done a few years ago ... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Nice! Love the turquoise railings!!! |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
60. I looked up "Cupcake Land" |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
61. kick for sunday |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
62. omg |
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