« PreviousCommentaires sur un fil / Comments by a string | Home | Raccoon etc.Next »


September 23, 2004
L'art du ménage / house-cleaning art

Le critique d'art de l'hebdomadaire alternatif de Seattle The Stranger passe un été à faire le ménage chez les riches de la côte ouest, et prend des notes sur les meubles, le design et les tableaux. Son compte-rendu contient des perles sur telle salle de bains de mauvais goût et particulièrement difficile à récurer, "qui semble droit sorti d'une tragédie grecque... l'emplacement d'une noyade vengeresse, concue pour l'infanticide... un bassin en marbre avec un robinet de sinistre présage."

The Stranger est le journal qui, l'année dernière, a publié un numéro spécial nécro en hommage à Courtney Love, pas encore morte, mais c'était tout comme à leurs yeux... Alors pourquoi attendre?!

The art critic of Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger spent the summer cleaning rich people's houses on the West Coast, and took notes about the furniture, the design, the paintings. His account is filled with delightful descriptions, such as of this tacky and "impossible to clean" bathroom "something out of a Greek tragedy, the site of a revenge drowning, built for infanticide--a deep marble sinkhole with an ominous faucet."

The Stranger is the paper which, last year, published a special issue entitled
R.I.P Courtney Love. She's not dead yet, but to them, she may as well be... so why wait?!

Posted by emmanuelle at September 23, 2004 09:18 AM
Comments


hey dudette, does your husband know his blog vanished?

Posted by: Ken Layne at September 23, 2004 11:43 PM

Hey Ken, and everybody wondering what's going on at Mattwelch.com
Well, we don't know either. For some reason, his blog vanished yesterday. His PC crashed yesterday, but it shouldn't have anything to do. The PC is back on, and all of our blogs hosted by Nothing Special are up and running, so I've no idea what's going on. He can still access his entries in Movable Type but they don't show.
A mystery!

Posted by: MattWelch.com info at September 24, 2004 07:55 AM
Categories
Central & Eastern Europe
France and frogs
Journalism
Los Angeles & California adventures
Net & weblogs
Private Investigation
Quick Film review
Archives
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004