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Just imagine our very private and humble Supreme Court justice sitting in his secluded shack in the woods, looking out the window, only to find some nut lurking behind two trees with a macro zoom lens. Next, the NYT will boil his bunny and put him down a well, for fattening purposes. [New York Times]
11:28 AM
on Mon May 4 2009
By
Sara K. Smith
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Aw, cool! I love it when they take pictures of David Souter’s house! When he got appointed to the Supreme Court, I remember the hard-hitting journalism that explored the old-fashioned appliances he’s got all over his kitchen. Really, I don’t get why newspapers are in such trouble these days if they’re going to keep churning that kind of stuff out.
Looks like Souter borrowed Ted Kaczynski’s little country retreat. How bad must DC be when you’d rather live in a town where people socialize at the dump?
I know I’ve said it before but that is without a doubt the house of a Log Cabin Republican. I just hope he’s got a wicked fetish room in the basement
…”only slightly more seductive than a mud hut.”
Yes, because what I always look for in a cabin is an alluring seductiveness. Her soffit, her trim, her delightful little shutters….well, you get the idea.
It is from this cabin that he shall issue his manifesto, force it to be published in the Wednesday edition of the NYT, to be read by no one, at which time he shall blow his brains out.
It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.
cue Tubular Bells.
It’s not that bad — in fact I think it’s quite an eminent domain.
Sign says.. “stay away fools”,’cause love rules at the Lo-o-ove Shack!
I get this and Ted Kuczynski’s shack confused all the time.
What kind of “protection” do supreme court justices get?
I’d be worried about a whold lot of bitterz goin’ after him for some reason they’ll manufacture.
captqitn:
Props for the Mike Oldfield reference.
Are the stills and cornmash fermenting tanks hidden behind that red door? I’d like to try me some Cypher Hermit White Lightning.
This is an outrage! We need some kind of system to protect the privacy of citizens on private property rather than gutting them in favor of spying, corporations, etc. Maybe a court? No, that won’t be enough. We need some kind of “supreme” type of court that tells other courts this type of thing is wrong.
Not all cabin inhabitants are freaks:
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/stickeen.jpg
But most of us are.
Is that where Souter has been sending the anthrax letters from? Jesus, does that thing have an outhouse?
Is SKS just gonna cold cross-reference her psychotic-people films?
Ted Kaczynski was framed !!!
The effin unabomber was hiding
out on the Supreme Court all
this time!!!
Love the braids, Custerwolf. Do you chink those logs with mud?
In my nabe that “cabin” would be listed as a “charming Colonial that needs TLC” and, when situated on 0.125 acres, would list for $575,000. Still.
So, David’s retirement will involve singing with his aging mother whilst wearing innovative scarves awaiting the Fawn’s arrival?
Whose woods these are, I think I know
I hope he doesn’t catch me hiding behind this tree.
Texan Bulldoggette: Most towns in NH don’t have garbage pick-up, so everyone has to make a trip to the dump a couple of times a week. It’s fine. In some towns it’s very nice.
boatapple: Interesting bit of trivia; I did not know that. Gee, no garbage pick up–are they savages up there!?
Custerwolf: I think it’s just that Souter’s place looks more like a hunting/fishing camp than an actual residence.
boatapple: I like to pick up a new hat when I’m down in the dumps.
I’m done.
Jesus, it’s the Souter Witch Project…
Souter said something stupid about “not liking Washington,” or something.
Guess what? If it weren’t for “Washington,” or whatever the hell you were talking about—YOU WOULDN’T HAVE YOUR NICE COMFORTABLE RETIREMENT, YOUR FUTURE LUCRATIVE SPEAKING FEES, YOUR FUTURE BOOK DEALS, YOUR FUTURE BOARD MEMBER PAYOUTS, YOUR FUTURE ENDORSEMENT DEALS, YOUR NICE LITTLE NEW ENGLAND FARM, AND ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
Not everyone in this country gets to be that damn lucky. Not everyone has a nice comfortable retirement pension and a little farm in New England to retire to. In fact, most people don’t have that. So what the hell are you bitching and moaning about?
Some cliches are true: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
It bears repeating: Souter: If it weren’t for Washington, you would not have your career, and your retirement, and your little farm.
It’s the subhead that baffles me. Who’s doing the embracing? He’s living alone. And the peekaboo shot is indeed stalkerish. I think the NYT needs a real boyfriend and to give up on its Souter fantasies.
Custerwolf: Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in New Hampshire any more.
Custerwolf: not a place to worry about termites.
thefrontpage: Meh. He’d have prolly been a federal judge up there; and he might have made the same investment in a New Hampshire bank and gotten rich. It’s not like he’d need more than Social Security to live in the lavish fashion to which he is accustomed. DC’s not for everybody.
x111e7thst: Actually, I don’t live there anymore. I moved south years back to a better place…that fell in the river. Let’s see Souter try living in 37-ft trailer. Elitist bastard.
thefrontpage: Damned straight.
Have any teabaggers spun this around yet that Souter has gone Gault?
Custerwolf: 37-foot trailer, shithole apartment in SW DC; tomato-tomahto.
What I wouldn’t give for a modest A-Frame somewhence in the wilds of Vermont or even Western Oregon. I see his point. It’s probably filled with period furniture and pewter. The woodstove (in the front) probably has an iron pot-belly and the first thing Souter does on a crisp fall saturday morning is splits some 3rd-gen Oak for its fyres.
Custerwolf: Goodness, Dorothy. It seems your Toto has been taking steroids.
Man, what a dump! How much, exactly, do they pay those judges?
V572625694: Actually I was only renting that place from a woman who had built it with her hubby. It had a great old claw-foot bathtub upstairs, which I especially miss these days since my tub is buried downriver in 2-ft of silt). When I helped build a couple of cabins in AK we used moss for chinking.
Lazy Media: Ahh…but the view makes all the difference.
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/winter07.jpg
Custerwolf: There used to be a wonderful show on PBS called “The Woodwright’s Shop,” where the host Roy Underhill would do all sorts of woodworking projects with pre-electricity tools (many of which were themselves beautiful objects). On one show he demonstrated how a settler in American colonial times would’ve built a log cabin all by himself, as was probably necessary most of the time. Damn hard work, resulting in a tiny, nearly lightless, dirt-floored shack.
I can hear my father now “You better keep after those shingles. You can’t let up sit like that. And no flashing over that window? Another three years and you might as well leave it for the squirrels…” Geez, what is this guy doing on his weekends?
V572625694: Of course, I remember Roy, I LOVED him! I had a boyfriend who was just like that guy. A fantastic woodcarver and salt of the Earth was that Mr.Lawless.
Was this house used as the set for Loretta Lynn’s childhood home in that movie with Cissy Spacek?
x111e7thst: It’s also the Last House On The Left
Custerwolf: There is nothing like the visual and tactile experience of seeing beautiful wood grain appear, like blue sky behind the clouds, beneath a perfectly sharpened smoothing plane, ideally one you made yourself, as you slide it across rough hardwood lumber.
Remember Kelo, where Souter said that governments could take private property for development, and the right wing was so pissed they threatened to take his cabin? Looks like they decided they didn’t want the damn thing.
Judge Johnnie-cakes.
Sure beats this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4th+street+SW+washington+dc&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=rxn_Sb2mMtG9twffo5TGCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1
Having done some apartment-hunting in SW last fall, I don’t blame Souter for wanting to leave it. Lots of ugly high-rises, few restaurants or shops; and the ongoing transition from poor-people apartments to yuppie condos isn’t noticeably changing that. Plus an extra helping of street crime.
The miserly bastard COULD, of course, have easily afforded to rent something nice in Capitol Hill or Georgetown or Dupont Circle, but then, of course, then he wouldn’t be a miserly old Yankee skinflint.
“Tweet provided by Twitter.” - I see this all the time now. What does this even mean? Who else would provide a tweet, reasonably? A canary? Could I just spontaneously provide a tweet (or would Twitter sue me)?
Looks like a great place to write manifestos and make pipe
bombs from.
I’m just askin’, is all.
thefrontpage: “Not liking Washington” is usually code for something. Normally it’s a reference to brown skin of one hue or another, but in this case it may be a reference to the problems of being a high profile individual and the limits that entails on having free selection from the widest possible pool of available young twinks.
V572625694: I used to live on Orcas Island in WA and there was an old mansion on the water that some rich woman from back east owned. The entire bannister leading from the ground floor to the second level had been intricately handcarved by some German craftsman. It felt absolutely exquisite to the touch, and was a masterful work of art. The house had such an atmosphere of nostalgia, it hadn’t been lived in for decades and was being maintained by my boyfriend who lived in the guest cabin (4 bedrooms and 2 baths).
snideinplainsight: Could I just spontaneously provide a tweet?
Sure, just eat a burrito.
V572625694: You guys wanna get a room or something. I’m sporting wood myself.
RoscoePColtraine: No, the production company’s insurance policy refused to cover it.
Mr Blifil: I was going to bring up the virtues of tongue-in-groove but I’ll save it for another time.
Where do the goats stay?
JadedDIssonance: As much as I am a city girl, some days that Oregon idea sounds pretty damn good.
Cicada: They don’t. He has his driver take them home before morning.
Custerwolf: See what you did? Now there’s big globs of Elmer’s everywhere.
Cicada: Pretty sure they took a vote, it was 5-4 against being fucked by David Souter.
Custerwolf How sweet to know that our love will always be a mystery to people like Mr Blifil.
Custerwolf: maybe Souter wants a retirement like this guy:
http://www.dickproenneke.com/DickProenneke.html
If you get the chance to see the documentaries on Proenneke you’ll be in heaven.
sorry snark free.
Mr Blifil: In Souter’s case it’s probably much more inocuous — some country folk will never even be able to fake being a city mouse. A college friend of mine went to visit the U. of Richmond campus to possibly go to law school there, and he thought he was going to get mugged at every corner. And U of R is in a tree-filled valley a good distance from any of the roughest part of town. He was from outside of Boone, NC, so the big city was kind of a shock. That and there was no crawlspace to bury the children.
Mr Blifil: I would jump in with my own love of wood butchery here, but I’m more of a power tools S&M kinda guy.
I live for the day when I can have a legitimate reason to use my chainsaw indoors once again. (That was an awesome day.)
cheeto_jeebus: Of course - I’ve seen that on PBS at least 7 or 8 times, and I cry each time at the end when they tell about him getting too ill (in his eighties) and being unable to stay in his cabin any longer. What an incredible guy he was.
Mr Blifil: Do tell!
Here’s what used to be my living room, (dig that old newspaper we found lining the inner walls). That’s a nice marble slab hearth - now downriver. Someday I’ll comb the riverbank for it, along with my hand-made ceramic sink and antique brass fixtures.
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/fire.jpg
Lascauxcaveman: You and my husband are twin sons of different mothers. His love of the chain saw is legendary.
Lazy Media: I don’t know, looks like a nice neighborhood to me!
Custerwolf: “tongue and groove” Naughty! But you make me laugh!
Custerwolf: I thought it was the Portal to Hell that we could throw Bachmann into…
Doing the John Galt thing is usually for retard libertarians, who get then indignant when they see the world moving along just fine without them. Souter doesn’t fit that mold. NYT needs to keep tabs on who shows up as his “personal assistant” at those speaking engagements.
proudgrampa: YES - that’s it!!!
Custerwolf: I’ll give a shout out for Helen & Scott Nearing. Also Ken Kern.
chascates: Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aKJVCwzwv0
Isn’t that Ted Kaczynski house?
dijetlo: I marvel at people who know how to spell Ted Kaczynski’s name. Above my pay grade.
thefrontpage: If you cannot be one of the nine most powerful people in the world, work only half a year, and do it all only if in the place, style and manner that brings you the utmost comfort, then the terrorists have won.