Jimmy Legs

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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Nothing can change the shape of things

April 17, 2007 – 3:10 pm

Wall4, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. The last wall has been (more or less) erected. Tonight I will break out the expanding foam, and tomorrow … drywall.

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And take you to your special island

April 16, 2007 – 3:31 pm

You know how sometimes when you drink you end up doing things you later regret? Well, this happened to me the other night. I awoke on Sunday with a pounding head and the sobering realization that at 3:30 the night before I was singing "Captain Jack" because Alex knew how to play it on the […]

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