April – 2007 – Got the Jimmy Legs

Monthly Archives: April 2007

Guilty of being white

April 30, 2007 – 11:36 am

Skim Coat, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. The walls are skim coated, and although they may not be perfect, I am getting sick of this stuff, so I'm throwing in the towel on trying to make the walls smooth and even. Screw it! I'm getting back to what I know best: covering up my mistakes […]

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You've got to breathe, stupid

April 26, 2007 – 11:31 am

Ready for skim coat, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. It's looking a little less like a disaster and more and more like a sheetrocked box of doom! I'm starting to worry that there won't be enough air when the door is closed. Ugh, I guess we'll have to paint as well.

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Everything you know is wrong

April 26, 2007 – 11:10 am

Oh no! Okay, I haven't been to the Brooklyn Inn in a long time, so maybe I'm somehow to blame for this, but I always liked that bar. Now comes word that the bar is to be repurposed into a bistro. What the fuck is a bistro, anyway? This sounds suspiciously like what happened to […]

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You've been down too long in the midnight sea

April 23, 2007 – 8:58 am

It's already too hard. Nevertheless, here are some good things that came to pass over the weekend: Finished putting the drywall up in the basement, reinforced and rehung door, sealed joints Fixed faulty light switch in basement (no more unscrewing the bulbs to turn them off) Took a nap (a feat in of itself) and […]

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Some stagger and fall after all it's not easy

April 18, 2007 – 12:10 pm

Walls Sealed, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. Getting sick of photos of plywood (with or without caulk and expanding foam)? This is the last time you'll see it here! Exciting pictures of drywall next!

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