April 2010
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Apr 27th
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From the NYTimes Book Review of a book about hoarding, from the psychological perspective: People justify hoarding as curating and recycling, deeming odd objects beautiful and useful. Sometimes they act as if history were at stake. Andy Warhol, “straddling the border between eccentricity and pathology,” the authors write, would periodically sweep everything — cash, artwork, apple cores — off...
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 23rd
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Ugly House Photos →
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Apr 23rd
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"Volunteers Find Underwater House In Mississippi"
From an NPR story on 29 March, 2010: Earlier this month, Chris Lagarde was working with a group of student volunteers in a marsh in Bay St. Louis, Miss. They discovered an entire house submerged, believed to have been pushed roughly 300 yards from its original location by Hurricane Katrina. Lagarde says he’d seen painted wood in the water for the past two years and thought it was part...
Apr 16th
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