Where is San Francisco, Alex?
/You’re also free to shoot up, pass out drunk on that same sidewalk and shoplift, but you probably already knew that.
Maybe he can use it to drive little Greta across the ocean to her next global warming conference
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The Terminator drives his Pinzgauer on Beverly Hills shopping errand
No mention of Greta joining Arnold on his spree, but she’d doubtless be thrilled.
Or, Greta could be really, really pissed. If so, there’s an app for that:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A new mural in downtown San Francisco of Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has a surprise for passersby: her eyes are equipped with high-powered lasers designed to seek and destroy carbon-emitting SUVs on the streets below.
“We want the mural to really make a positive impact in the fight against climate change,” a spokesperson told sources. “Greta’s pouty glare is certain to generate guilt and shame in many motorists, but that didn’t seem like enough. By adding the lasers, we can begin taking out the worst offenders in their Hummers and Land Rovers.”
"Overly enthusiastic" is overly euphemistic, even for the director of the Humane Society
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“Who, me?”
The director’s pit bull attacked and killed a 95-year-old woman, tearing huge chunks of flesh from her back and legs, but according to Annie Hornish, director of the Connecticut Humane Society, her little pup was just a bit too rambunctious in his joyous reception of the now-deceased Jill D’Aleo:
“Our dog Dexter was overly enthusiastic in greeting our dear friend (D’Aleo), and the ensuing chaos resulted in this terrible outcome,” she said.
Hornish also blamed a home healthcare aide for smacking Dexter with a metal stool in an attempt to drive the dog off his meal, thereby causing the “resulting chaos”. If only Ghandi still worked in nursing.
Price cuts
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18 Crown Lane, $3.295 million, down from its opening 2018 price of $4.995. The owners paid $4.7 in 2008, so perhaps their irrational pricing exuberance 18 months ago can be excused.
And I suppose the same could be said about the owners of 25 Fox Run Lane, now asking $3.450 million instead of the $4.899 they asked in September 2018. 2005 purchase price was $4.5 million.
Well, we certain wouldn't want to derail the gravy train
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Business as usual
Elijah Cummings’ young widow will run for his seat
Nothing to see here, other than the long history of the woman, with her husband’s connivance, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions, according to some reports) from corporations whose interests were overseen by Cummings’ Congressional committee. She funneled “contributions” from those corporations into her personal charity and from there to her personal accounts.
House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings’s wife has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity to her private for-profit organization, according to a previously undisclosed cost-sharing arrangement that multiple experts said raises red flags.
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity, the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), paid her for-profit venture, Global Policy Solutions LLC, over $250,000 in “management fees” between 2013 and 2015, according to the charity’s audited financial statements covering those years. The management fees were paid in addition to a cost-sharing agreement where the charity pays for its share of equipment, personnel and other expenditures.
Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity is funded by companies with interests before her husband’s congressional committee, according to the Washington Examiner.
But there ARE houses still selling
/A number of sales, pending sales and contracts were reported last week, including
11 Brynwood Lane
11 Brynwood Lane, pending, $5.395 million, just 116 days on market (DOM).
107 Meadow Road, Riverside, pending, $6.795. Down from its original price of $8.695 million, but still a substantial sum for a house so burdened with deed restrictions.
31 Khakum Wood, pending, $4.495 million. The owners paid $4.010 for it in 2015, so they’re doing alright; better than their predecessors, who paid (via bidding war!) $7 million in 2006.
35 Byram Shore Road closed at $6.5 million
10 Ricki Beth Lane, Hillcrest Park, not only sold for $1.850 million, it sold for $100,000 more than its asking price. Nice, very nicely renovated contemporary, but I was still surprised how easily it found buyers. Good for them!
And behold, even Pecksland Road has a contract! 85 Pecksland, asking $3.550, 189 DOM.
Anyone seen Joe Biden?
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Now, let’s just keep this our own little secret, eh?
Buckling down for winter
/A number of large houses failed to sell this fall, so they took price cuts last week. Can’t hurt, I suppose.
373 Taconic Road
373 Taconic Road has dropped to $4.995 million. The owners paid $9.350 million for it in 2005, and have been trying to undo that purchase since March 2016, when they put it on the market at $9.750.
16 Boulder Brook Road
16 Boulder Brook, now an asset [sic] of People’s Bank, was marked down to $3.999. Last sold, and borrowed against, for $5.832, in 2007, when all the world was young. Or this house was, anyway.
170 Old Mill
At least the owners of 170 Old Mill Road, who have taken their price down a notch from $5.495 million to $4.495 million, have not (yet) suffered the indignity of the original owner of this house, who paid $8.850 for it in 2006 and was finally able to unload it on these sellers for $4.9 million in 2015. Heck, they’ve only just begun.
UPDATE: Publius sends along an NR article about Regis leaving Greenwich. The author gets one detail wrong: Philbin hasn’t yet sold his house, he’s only hoping to, but otherwise, the piece is spot on.
What in Hell has EOS been up to during my absence?
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Eating what appears to be a spinach (kale?) pie, topped with styrofoam with a vulcanized rubber topping.
Good Lord, woman.
And we're back
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Safe at home at 324 Riverside Avenue
Photo credit: Sarah Fountain, who texted me this while I was perched, freezing and deerless up north. Sharper than a serpent’s tooth ….
Should have stood in bed, as anyone with knowledge of the respective deer populations of Riverside, CT and Abbot, Maine, could have told me. But a good time was had by all, especially the would-be-but-wasn’t venison.
I see that, despite his infusion of $2.5 million into our local election, George Soros’ attempt to put Jill Oberlander into the First Selectman’s seat failed. Not to worry, Mayor Mike has promised to step in with his own cash when the BET campaign kicks off next year.
In the meantime, Regis Philbin continued to demonstrate his real estate acumen by listing 56 N. Stanwich, the house he paid $7.2 million for in 2008, for $4.495. Regis, never try to catch a falling knife: that property had started at $9.2 million in 2006, and remained unsold until you showed up two years later. You didn’t have to wait until now to get it for half-price.
But the poor guy has a history of misjudging Greenwich real estate: he purchased the North Stanwich home a month after listing his residence at 38 Meeting House Road for $5.9 million (from Warner Wolfe, who knew from betting on losers), and probably thought he was “investing” just a wee bit more of his money in the new place. But 38 Meeting House took three years to sell, and fetched just $2.990 million.* Bummer, but at least he knows what to expect this time.
In a perfect example of the greater fool principle, those buyers are now planning to tear it down and replace it with a 13,000 sq. ft. house. $3 million for a building lot? On Meeting House Road? See, “a fool and his money” for another real estate principle.