claudia's surf city

"I am so outta Virginia, baby. I'm never living in the south again—they can just kiss my Puerto Rican ass." At about midnight,...

photograph by Christopher Garrison Due to complaints about the lack of adult content on this blog, we're making a serious effort to impr...

Does a 54-foot tractor trailer fit on the ferry? I don't know, but I'm going to have to find out. Along with what a "spline...

This is Sis's kitchen. She is renovating it. Bigtime, as you can see. Whilst exiled from the main room the family uses in the house, the...

I guess I'd best just go on down to Payne's Dock and drown my rental sorrows with my brothers-in-misery. It's too late to go to ...

Note from the lawyer after agita, ire and threats of nonpayment: Claudia, Yes, file those plans with the town. Also send us a copy. We hav...

"Nick, baby, my man." I'm standing in the Seacaucus, N.J., Home Depot looking at 16-foot baseboard mouldings. Dolores's co...

The man above can dance. He can dance around the world—and does. Atop Kilimanjaro. At Angkor Wat. Back home (one guesses) in Westport, Conn....

Some people might be jealous of what we did yesterday. Yesterday we visited Angelina at her Country Estate known as WEIR FARM that is now a...

"Oh my God!" Dolores, stopping by her former sty to deliver the kitchen sink which she bought all by herself at Home Depot. A few...

"Do you have a plane?" I don't know where I'd be without BI Bro's tool collection, which ranges from antique- decorati...

"A balcony is going to look pretty funky on the island. Especially cantilevered," said my brother the set carpenter. "Yeah, b...

The new tenants have moved in, along with their 4 x 4 pickup, their jet ski, their Harley, their Great Pyrenees dog (and I mean great, as in...

No, Angelina darling, we're not talking about you. For once. Actually, we've had about enough of you. And your love affairs. And you...

"CSC House...beaches and no power plant noise!"

"My vote is for CSC!"

"CSC ...paws down..the best! My owners do not even rent from her, and she still lets me hang out at her house."

Just so you know: This is what Rex thinks of House of Hat. Rex likes CSC. He said so. Also so you know: There will ne NO MORE POSTING BY ME...

This is the infamous house that has a porch that Certain People have never been invited to sit on and smoke cigarettes and Certain Other Peo...

This is Rex. In the background of this picture, at left, you can see the house that welcomes Rex—and all dogs who have had their flea meds....