mobylosangelesarchitecture:

i’m including today’s house for a few simple reasons:

1. i was driving down a random street in hollywood and i saw this nice little house and decided to stop for 90 seconds and be a creepy house voyeur and take some pictures.
2. it’s an unexceptional, albeit very nice, mid-century house. and i really like the fact that l.a has an abundance of unexceptional, although very nice, mid-century houses.
3. to continue with ‘2’, i like the fact that there are enough nice mid-century houses in l.a that you can drive by them and only give them a passing, glancing bit of attention. a simple, ‘oh, look, a nice mid-century house. huh.’ and i’m stating the obvious, but there aren’t too many cities possessed of an abundance of nice mid-century houses.
4. see 1, 2, and 3.
5. i like lists.
6. i’ll be honest, these few pictures don’t really do the house justice. it wasn’t an unexceptional mid-century house. it was a really, really nice mid-century house, all suspended on steel posts and surrounded by trees. maybe i’m saying it was ‘unexceptional’ because my pictures aren’t so great.
7. to wit: exceptional house. unexceptional pictures. mea culpa. self-flagellation. etc.
8. i think the list has become as long as it needs to be.
9. mitt romney’s wife, ann, spent over $70,000 on her dressage horse’s care last year. oh, wait, no, WE (the taxpayers) spent over $70,000 on mitt romney’s dressage horse, as the $70,000+ that they spent on their dressage horse was a tax deduction. considering that we (the taxpayers) spent over $70,000 on mitt romney’s fancy horse last year shouldn’t we at least get to ride around on it every now and then?
10. yes, ‘9’ had nothing to do with architecture. but it’s an election year and mitt romney scares the bejeezus out of me. i mean, far be it for me to judge, but he seems to have no soul.

thanks

moby