It's always something when you let other people in your world.

James Lileks


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If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.

James Lileks

Tag: parenting oil



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If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

James Lileks

Tag: parenting constipation



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Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them.

James Lileks

Tag: interior-design



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In the early '70s, the nation was afflicted with incurable pattern viruses - small microbes that reproduced and multiplied from a single swatch left on a sofa, and soon covered an entire room.

James Lileks

Tag: viruses interior-design



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What's the deal with putting animal feet on tubs? It's like insisting that all pianos should have tails, or dinner tables should have scrotal sacs. One of the things we like about tubs is their immobility, their general disinclination to bolt out of the room, scramble down the stairs, and make for the woods in a blind feral panic.

James Lileks

Tag: interior-design bath-tubs scrotal-sacs



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She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town.

James Lileks

Tag: tracks gerrymandering



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She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

James Lileks

Tag: slow rotations



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I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, "No, it's just an ironic pregnancy.

James Lileks

Tag: irony pregnancy hysterical



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So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her.

James Lileks

Tag: marriage pardon



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