sally in tx's Profile

well, overrated might be too harsh. it's not for me. it's very very car-centric, though there are a couple of sort of walkable neighborhoods. the summers are long and miserably hot and humid. i don't think there's a whole lot to do for small children. there is lots of live music, it's true, but that doesn't do too much for me personally. there is *some* charming architecture, but for the most part it's a lot of 80's blah and many, many, parking lots. it's not a very integrated city and is known for not being particularly attractive to black people, generally. making a rash generalization here - austinites can't get over themselves and how "weird" austin is. there is no good bread. the cost of housing has gone way up.

to be fair: there is fantastic, inexpensive, mexican food and bar-b-cue all over the place. and good margaritas.

it seems fair enough if this person has recently moved from a smaller place with no built-in shelving. i limit my book collection for this reason.

empty shelves *are* weird to look at - i can see, if you suddenly had some, wanting to just fill them up, and figure you'll get to it bit by bit. that seems totally reasonable to me.

my suggestion would be to stock it with a variety of collections from publishers: penguin, tachen, etc. - plus some big beautiful art and design books for fun and inspiration for the future. be sure to leave plenty of room for future additions, though. you only need to stock it partway, i think, to take care of the shelving-void issue.

note that this is from awhile back, not the current issue - from the march issue. tho i suppose it's online.

i do this inthe bathroom, for diapers. the diaper genie things were way too big and still stinky, and i don't want to put them in the more open wastebasket. this way i can empty it frequently outside in the trash. when the diaper stage is over, so is the bag.

i like the idea, but practically local furniture translated into used furniture - of which i have lots (also have lots of decidedly non-local). if i really did local here in austin, tx, i would have way too much awful rustic wood furniture.

i think it is easier than people realize to eat local - perhaps furnishings too... sort of hard to compare.

Just a reminder that items which are biodegradeable in principle, often will not actually decompose in a landfill, because no air is present. I suppose it would be compostable, though.