mennonno sapiens - one giant leap for mankind: Recent Comments

Comment on Studio Stalking in the Fenway

Mike Mennonno — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:55:10 GMT

Mmm. I'm actually really good at bartering.

Comment on Studio Stalking in the Fenway

henry — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:50:10 GMT

maybe you can barter with a furniture maker... in-kind payments .... nights in white satin ....

Comment on Studio Stalking in the Fenway

Mike Mennonno — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:22:05 GMT

That's a good idea. I actually have looked into it, and there is a company called the Closet Factory -- and despite the name, as far as I know, it's not associated with the Republican Party. I may try them. I'd love to go with an old-fashioned country furniture-maker, but I don't want to spend five grand.

Comment on Studio Stalking in the Fenway

henrhy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:59:54 GMT

congratulations! I always thought that the Fenway had this urban, self-assured feeling.

Since you have time: why not use your online 'acquisition skills' to connect with a VT/NH/ME carpenter/furniture-maker to get a customized Murphy bed. I think you can buy the mechanism separate and this way you could achieve our own design aesthetic.

Comment on Studio Stalking in the Fenway

Anita — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:54:06 GMT

OMG, this is unbelievably wonderful. I've never been to Boston but I can read a map. Can this be true?

Comment on Two Kinds of Self-Love

Mike Mennonno — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:37:18 GMT

So that's why he was looking!

No, seriously, I agree that I'm "enabling" him just by not wanting to live in a trashed frat house. I just pity the poor girl who ends up with him. Because his main line of defense is just pretending he doesn't know what's going on. No wonder his last girlfriend, a stripper, he told me, up and left him out of the blue, and moved to Guam.

I'm not going that far, but I am about to sign a lease tomorrow on a new place of my own on the other side of the Fenway. I'll be paying a third again what I'm paying now for a third of the space, but it'll be worth it.

As a bonus it'll ease my guilty conscience about enabling Jake.

Comment on Two Kinds of Self-Love

Jim Long — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:50:43 GMT

I used to live with that guy. I know him well, and you're enabling him to keep up his bad habits. You can't stand to see the trash pile up, the window open, and he knows your weaknesses. The more you complain and the more you pick up after him, the more he knows you'll just keep doing it. The solution when I lived with him? Got a new roommate. :-)

Comment on How My Housing Bubble Burst

Mike Mennonno — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:02:52 GMT

I am definitely looking into the city's housing lottery and other "affordable" options, as well as thinking outside my current comfort zone about living in other milieux.

I'm about to sign a lease on a little flat through September 2011, so maybe 2012 will be my year to buy, if the world doesn't end first, which would be just my rotten luck.

Comment on How My Housing Bubble Burst

BosGuy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:46:55 GMT

I purchased a place in the S.E. through the city's affordable housing program. At the time I worked at AIDS Action and my other half was a flight attendant. We got our 2 BR for $230K. Maybe you can look into a similar option if you qualify. It is a long process but considering how my story concludes - definitely worth it.

BosGuy

Comment on Creative Crisis Management, Menino-Style

Jenn — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:29:47 GMT

Honestly, why can't this city elect someone else? Is he bribing everyone except you and the people commenting on this post? I don't fucking understand.

Mumbles is so fucking limited and apathetic it's shameful. Come on Boston. Get it together.