My, oh my

Another bidding war, this time over 65 Summit Road, sandwiched between the railroad tracks and the second-busiest road in Riverside and priced at $1.895 million.

Brother Gid and I discussed our positions on bidding wars just this past Saturday. I asserted that “winners are losers”, Gideon said, old man that he is, “it Depends™”. In the end, I think we agreed that we’re both right — if you find the right property: direct waterfront, say, with enough acreage for privacy, etc., and you have the money, does it really matter how much you have to pay, if you intend to stay there twenty years? Almost certainly not — that’s what money’s for, to get what you want. But if your window is five years, spend away if you wish, but be prepared to lose the premium you’ve paid, and probably more.

And another bidding war, this time in central Greenwich

140 Park Avenue, asked $4.395, went to contract almost immediately, and is now pending. We’ll report the winning bid when it closes

we needn’t regret the demise of all of our “original” housing stock

Ask, and ye shall more than receive, at least in Riverside

35 Bramble Lane asked for $3.695 and just sold for $3.750. The sellers bought it new in 2013 for $3.325, so they made out nicely.

Any old timers remember whether this was scott Morgan’s home? GPD Folks?

I’m sorry, but I literally laughed out loud when I read this headline

BLM protestors rally for victim, leave after learning he was white

It’s not worth reading the story (carjacker shot at cops, got shot in turn), because the headline says it all.

Only if they toss in a bulldozer and unlimited dumpster fees

11 Hedgerow Lane has been brought back on the market after its foreclosure auction. Now asking $3.995, which may seem a bargain compared to its original 2012 ask of $7.450, but no one’s wanted it in the nine years since, and there’s no reason, other than COVID panic, to think someone will now.

The pictures for the new listing aren’t up yet, so I’ve posted some from that last. I doubt things have improved.

There may be hope for the country yet, because these people are teetering on the edge of self-destruction

She’s agin’ “Baa baa black sheep”, too

Music professor apologizes for teaching “Jingle Bells”

After discovering the tenets of what is referred to as "anti-racism," one University of Nevada-Reno professor will stop teaching songs like “Jingle Bells” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep.”

Kate Pollard — a senior music lecturer at the University of Nevada-Reno — wrote about her “anti-racist journey” in music education for Nevada Today, the school’s news outlet.

Referring to her first days as a middle school teacher in the late 1990s, Pollard wrote that “I don’t think I even knew what these songs were about, and I am fairly certain that none of my middle school students asked about their historical context.” However, when she “learned what authenticity and appropriateness meant in the mid-2000s,” she began to dive into “culturally relevant pedagogy.”

Between that time period and the present day, Pollard has had “many conversations and read a lot of literature on anti-racist curriculums and appropriation.” She realized that “many of the songs I taught as a middle school educator and even as a college educator are not appropriate and even potentially harmful to certain peoples.”

Examples include “Jingle Bells,” “Shortnin’ Bread,” and “Polly Wolly Doodle” — all of which, according to Pollard, have links to “blackface minstrelsy.”

Pollard told Campus Reform that “Jingle Bells” is problematic because she read that “slave owners used to put bells on slaves to keep track of them, which the jingle bells are referencing.”

“Out of all the songs I mentioned in my article, Jingle Bells is probably the most divisive,” she explained. “Maybe it’s a ubiquitous familiarity; maybe it’s associated with Christmas. Either way, many teachers don’t want to remove it.”

That must have been disappointing

27 Clapboard Ridge Road, purchased for $5.350 in 2004, closed Friday at $3.5

Built in 1858 and “totally renovated’ in 2000, I thought it still needed work back when I toured it in ‘03 (when it was priced at an improbable $6.295). It does have 4 acres, so perhaps there’s a subdivision possibility here.

Yes, of course we still report on Greenwich real estate news, when there's news to report. For instance …

Contract on 20 Bush Avenue, “in the Belle Haven area” asking $5.990 million

Neither my favorite location nor my favorite house on the peninsula, this old 1910 house has spent a long time on the “please buy me” list. I don’t think the initial try was serious, because its $7.3 million price remained unchanged for the full year it sat on the market, rejected by buyers, from March ‘12 to March ‘13. The second attempt between September ‘17 to December ‘18 was equally frivolous: it barely moved, from $6.495 to $6.250.

This time around, it started at $5.990 in August, and with a helping hand from Kung Flu, has found a buyer.

murphy bed?

Sorry, Doctor, but copyright law provides a vaccination against that

Dr. Seuss Enterprise threatens to sue Babylon Bee

Seth Dillion, CEO of The Babylon Been, shared an email he received from Seuss Enterprises that threatened to sue the publication over its satirical article titled, “In New Dr. Seuss Book, Cat In The Hat Gives Kids Puberty Blockers While Their Mother Isn’t Home.”

“Your article, satire or not, is a copyright infringement and breaking multiple defamation laws,” wrote the unnamed person who sent the email from legal@drsuess.com. “Remove this or we will proceed accordingly”:

Dillon’s response?

Who knew? New York Nursing home employees are a bunch of redneck Trumpster idiots

anti-vaccer robert De niro: And they’re demanding emergency pay, too; my dad woudda been proud

Almost half have refused to get vaccinated, and as we all know from media coverage, only the worst of the deplorable, the bible-clinging, gun-toting hillbillys do that.