Oh, what a rake! Florida teen working on growing up to be Florida Man
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Florida Boy?
If it works, expect to see Harvey Weinstein prowling Hollywood lawns with a leaf blower.
And another entry in the "What were they thinking" catalogue
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1 Indian Chase, offered originally at $20 million in 2014, is now down to $9.950. Several highly successful brokers have had this price, and the best they could come up with were a series of ludicrous prices. Perhaps this broker, with her new price, will be closer to the mark.
Friends don't let friends price stoned
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No kidding
273 Valley Road, Cos Cob, hit the market today for $2.150 million. It's a 1,000 sq.ft bungalow, with no garage, built down off the road on a 1/3- acre of land that sold for $760,000 in May, 2014.
I'm gobsmacked.
Little house on the floodplain
Don't let Hartford's budgeteers or their pet unions see the study; it'll ruin their day
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We just need a keener knife!
Fairfield County has slowest economic growth in the nation
Fairfield County led the nation in wage stagnation in the recession recovery, according to a new study, with people making less in 2015 than they did in 2010.
On a per capita basis over five years, the Fairfield County area saw income decline 5.3 percent to $81,225, GoBankingRates determined from U.S. Census Bureau data, with economists have attributed the area’s inability to generate momentum to gains in lower-wage jobs in hospitality and entertainment compared to previous periods when the region added finance and corporate jobs at a rapid clip.
GoBankingRates.com listed the Tulsa, Okla. area as having the fastest wage growth nationally, with per capita income up 35.7 percent over five years through 2015, the result of ample new commercial development in downtown Tulsa according to the study’s authors.
I'm a tad skeptical of this report, because there are some ares of the country that seem to be dying, rather than merely withering on the vine, like Fairfield County's, but who knows? If it is accurate, Maybe Hartford should direct its attention to figuring out how to tax Tulsa.
Stupid is as stupid does: Weinstein hires new lawyer, who will attack his accusers
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Patricia Glaser, Esq., who is sworn to file no pleading unless in good faith
I can't claim to have ever been a genius legal tactician, but I was pretty good at big-picture strategy, and the idea of going after a roster of Hollywood stars and low-level, young staffers, all of whom tell the same story, is incredibly stupid. There's no place for strategy here: the war is lost, but dumb tactics will only make the post-war damages worse. Tormenting women who were forced to watch Harvey ejaculate on potted plants? You really want to cross examine a victim on that?
Weinstein's new lawyer, Patricia Glaser, is supposed to be a "top lawyer" — I'd call her a dim-witted, unscrupulous tactician, who'll do anything for a fee, and she brings to mind this lawyer joke:
"Did you know that they're replacing lab rats with lawyers?"
"No, why is that?"
"Well, they're easier to train, the lab researchers don't grow fond of them, and there are some things a rat just won't do."
This seems an unlikely price
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Not a big fan of this style: evokes images of certain WW II structures pictured below
Owners of a contemporary at 11 Mohawk Lane have priced it at $5.750 million.
Mohawk Lane, off Stag Lane, off of Stanwich, has rarely commanded anything close to $6 million: under-$2 is more usual. There was a sale in the $5s on the street four years ago: No. 26, for $5.2 million in 2013, but that was a purchase from owners who had foolishly paid $7.5 million for it as "new" construction in 2008 (it had sat on the market since 2006). And it was traditional, rather than bunker-contemporary. My guess is that the $5.2 final price seemed like a bargain because the buyers' agent let her clients be confused by that 2008 price: that was dumb, and they'll probably regret paying so much when they go to resell.
Just as both buyers of 26 Mohawk might have been better served by their respective agents to dodge a falling knife, I'd be inclined to recommend waiting a bit on this one.
Eagle's Nest
Or Normandy fire control bunker?
How about "Obamacares"?
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Your money's safe with me, Harvey — I'll treat it as though it were my own
Weinstein Co. to change its name, looking for suggestions.
Or maybe "What's Happening?"
UPDATE: This New Yorker article is absolutely damning. Walt, you probably knew this, but I didn't, the author Ronan Farrow is not only Mia's son, but Tarzan's girlfriend, Maureen O'Sullivan's grandson!
Related
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50 years ago today: "Don't shoot! I'm Che, I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"
They shot
Harvey Weinstein begged Hollywood executives to save his career.
They shot.
Old and in the way
I'm so old that I remember when "blame the victim" was considered a horrible, indefensible response to a woman's claim of sexual assault.
But probably no Sam Bridge Christmas trees this year
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I can't speak for the staff and owner, but they surely don't find Debra McLaughlin particularly "enchanting"
Junior League to hold its annual "Enchanted Forest" sales event soon. Overpriced Christmas ornaments, gimcracks and gewgaws. For those who can't wait until November to meet Junior League President Debra Mclaughlin, she might be present at the Planning & Zoning hearing on her demand that the Sam Bridge Nursery be shut down, this October 17th.