tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post7960164763932967971..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: Ladees and Gentlemen, The Taupe OfficeYour Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-790114839538867842010-09-16T04:06:34.380-07:002010-09-16T04:06:34.380-07:00Didn't know it was called a Jib Door until I r...Didn't know it was called a Jib Door until I read these comments, but it looks odd with the wallpaper on it. If it was painted to match the trim it would help break up the YIKES stipes. I cover my switch plates to match the wallpaper, but this is too clever by half. <br /><br />It's hard to believe that the designer wouldn't check with historians before the weaving of the rug. How sad to live with a mistake like that mocking the leader of the free world everyday, not to mention everytime anyone else is in there with him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-18814354085131759002010-09-05T23:31:41.244-07:002010-09-05T23:31:41.244-07:00As Obama himself said in February 2009, upon relea...As Obama himself said in February 2009, upon release of his first budget: “There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house, and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding the foundation.”<br /><br />No wonder so many wags are calling this expensive Oval Office re-do "The Audacity of Taupe." One quipped: "The Oval Office has just gotten a complete makeover, and I understand some more Oval Office changes are planned for 2012."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-34742393670589253962010-09-04T09:17:25.219-07:002010-09-04T09:17:25.219-07:00'Nuff said from the Wahington Post:
"A m...'Nuff said from the Wahington Post:<br /><br />"A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige. .... 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from [Martin Luther] King. Except it's not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington. For the record, Theodore Parker is your man, President Obama."<br /><br />So this president gets the history all wrong right there in a misquote on his office rug. Michael Smith really is a genius!<br /><br />Here's the link:<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-36029096590623055032010-09-03T20:23:20.191-07:002010-09-03T20:23:20.191-07:00The descent from the campaign euphoria of "Ye...The descent from the campaign euphoria of "Yes We Can" to the current disappointed national mood of "OOPS, We Did" perfectly realized in one mediocre but pretentious room. Wonderful! Failure of the stimulus package? You can see it in the bland velveteen and the hideous wallpaper stripes. <br /><br />Michael Smith is a genius!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-47050011905407950432010-09-03T17:14:00.172-07:002010-09-03T17:14:00.172-07:00Hey Disturbed...you wrote...
"So many Americ...Hey Disturbed...you wrote...<br /><br />"So many Americans, conservatives more so that liberals perhaps, seem to want their president and other government leaders to be down home, rib eating, football watching, truck driving, and tough talking crotch scratchers who will bully and throw their weight around on the geo-political stage like a god damn cowboy.<br /><br />That's why I think so many people thought Bush was so great."<br /><br />Not sure where I stated Bush was great (he wasn't), or that a "rib eating" (?) cowboy President is preferable. If it makes you feel better generalizing that folks who disagree with many Obama Administration policies would prefer a crotch scratching truck driver in the Oval Office, knock yourself out.<br /><br />"I don't want the president or any of the leaders of my country to come down to the intellectual level of the "common" person, I want the "common" people of this country to elevate and educate themselves to a higher level."<br /><br />You consider someone who disagrees with an Administration's policies a "common" person who needs to "educate themselves to a higher level". That's interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-66062313268629050162010-09-03T14:09:06.747-07:002010-09-03T14:09:06.747-07:00Let's face it...Regardless of the decor, there...Let's face it...Regardless of the decor, there's going to be someone complaining about it. Darn if you do, darn if you don't. IMO, there's more important issues to discuss other than the personal office decor of any president.<br /><br />MoniqueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-40757004908650084062010-09-03T13:57:14.169-07:002010-09-03T13:57:14.169-07:00I use fruit decoratively all the time. Just becau...I use fruit decoratively all the time. Just because it happens to be edible doesn't mean that it is there to be eaten. It can be there (or anywhere) just because it looks nice. The bane of anyone who uses fruit this way are people who don't appreciate the art of the fruit arrangement. . . <br />Bouley Restaurant in New York, in one of its incarnations, had a wall of red apples in the entrance. They were definitely not there to be eaten (at least until they got too ripe and were replaced), but they were beautiful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-75572894283406073592010-09-03T11:56:40.131-07:002010-09-03T11:56:40.131-07:00kylie... you're kidding, right?
http://www.th...kylie... you're kidding, right?<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-31/obamas-iraq-speech-bushs-shadow-looms-over-the-president/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC7Disturbednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-72386791950231413582010-09-03T11:28:31.734-07:002010-09-03T11:28:31.734-07:00Disturbed, nicely said...<b>Disturbed,</b> nicely said...lil' gay boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115496241247504856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-23985814638180457462010-09-03T11:25:57.839-07:002010-09-03T11:25:57.839-07:00@Disturbed - "That's why I think so many ...@Disturbed - "That's why I think so many people thought Bush was so great."<br /><br />Name one person who thought George W. Bush was a great leader, just try, I bet you can't do it. :c)<br /><br />This office is just like it's occupant - bland, boring and not achieving anything.<br /><br />All that money, all that access to designers and the best they could come up with was this. <br /><br />The world really is going to hell in a hand basket.Kyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13804810996673690877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-13517172695257522882010-09-03T10:21:35.975-07:002010-09-03T10:21:35.975-07:00Thats a Jib Door, you ignorant peepsThats a Jib Door, you ignorant peepsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-59756056056745331012010-09-03T10:10:54.596-07:002010-09-03T10:10:54.596-07:00I'm really not a big fan of Obama but I don...I'm really not a big fan of Obama but I don't get this idea that so Americans don't seem to want their leaders to be "lofty intellectuals."<br /><br />Really?<br /><br />So many Americans, conservatives more so that liberals perhaps, seem to want their president and other government leaders to be down home, rib eating, football watching, truck driving, and tough talking crotch scratchers who will bully and throw their weight around on the geo-political stage like a god damn cowboy. <br /><br />That's why I think so many people thought Bush was so great. Although he was to be sure an east coast blue blood with an ivy league education and a family far richer and more "elitist" than Obama, he walked and talked like he was an under-educated good ol'boy...which he was not. He was in the Skull and Bones at Yale for fuck sake. Not exactly a bastion of good ol' boys.<br /><br />I feel differently. I want the president and other leaders of my country to be wickedly smart, well educated, globally aware, culturally sophisticated, pragmatic, and tough as teflon.<br /><br />I don't want the president or any of the leaders of my country to come down to the intellectual level of the "common" person, I want the "common" people of this country to elevate and educate themselves to a higher level. <br /><br />I don't think that would make everyone a die-hard liberal/Democrat and nor should it. But at least it would get rid of this damn fool notion that the president and other gov't leaders have to be or at least have to act like an "average" American in order to be embraced by average middle and working class Americans.<br /><br />I'm sure some of y'all will get bitchy and call me an over-educated east coast liberal. But I'm not. I'm from a middle class family, my father and grandparents were farmers and I'm the first (and only) person in my immediate family to be educated past high school. I went to a state college and I work hard and make a middle class living. I am an average American and I want my president and my government leaders to be more than average. I want them to be exceptional and I don't understand why that is so threatening to so many people.<br /><br />As for the new oval office decor, it's dull and boring but that was probably the best way to go in this polarized political climate.Disturbednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-46100506618049407632010-09-03T09:33:14.126-07:002010-09-03T09:33:14.126-07:00Careful...if one disagrees with decor, or anything...Careful...if one disagrees with decor, or anything this administration does, one might be called racist, or a simpleton. These people are lofty intellectuals; best not to question any of their choices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-61826097340407508162010-09-03T02:31:48.570-07:002010-09-03T02:31:48.570-07:00A beige room for beige times...boring, bland, bana...A beige room for beige times...boring, bland, banal, bankrupt, bewildered, bereft, bitter, blemished,<br />beligerent, beaten, bastardized,<br />battered, broken, brittle, busted,<br /><br /><br /> Baracked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-77248967561242344322010-09-03T00:57:56.123-07:002010-09-03T00:57:56.123-07:00confidential to anon 8:48 -- brevity is the soul o...confidential to anon 8:48 -- brevity is the soul of wit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-32022547538803183022010-09-03T00:00:20.265-07:002010-09-03T00:00:20.265-07:00Honestly, forgive me, but I htink it's lovely....Honestly, forgive me, but I htink it's lovely. Definitely conservative and not my taste, but it looks like a calm, relaxing place to business. It looks regal. It looks like the office of a president.Cameronj2@me.comhttp://www.photobycameron.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-71356767170192371462010-09-02T23:53:06.718-07:002010-09-02T23:53:06.718-07:00Rosco Mare, shame on you! You made me snarf my eve...<b>Rosco Mare,</b> shame on you! You made me snarf my evening sherry...<br /><br />It certainly is uninspired & unimpressive; I don't think we'll ever know all of the factors involved in the final decor decisions, but evidently they had precious little to to with creativity –– more like design by committee. A sad day indeed when the most eye-catching item in the room is <i>the back</i> of a throw pillow.<br /><br />Apparently, the most expensive line item in the budget was the exorcism.lil' gay boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115496241247504856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-65721550886235688522010-09-02T21:52:56.724-07:002010-09-02T21:52:56.724-07:00This reminds me uncomfortably of a Levitz showroom...This reminds me uncomfortably of a Levitz showroom from the 1980s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-50573081404690376972010-09-02T21:38:32.473-07:002010-09-02T21:38:32.473-07:00One time I am at a loss for words.
This is it.
Y...One time I am at a loss for words.<br /><br />This is it.<br /><br />You pegged it beautifully, mama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-7964372294696196762010-09-02T20:48:51.404-07:002010-09-02T20:48:51.404-07:00Wait! Was Seth Rogen the ACTUAL designer, with Mic...Wait! Was Seth Rogen the ACTUAL designer, with Michael Smith just covering for him the way Sister Parish covered for French designer Stephane Boudin when Jackie redid the White House in the '60's? That's got to be right because this is a nearly perfect realization of the classic "Knocked-Up" frat house chic theme, and so few have designers that special touch! <br /><br />But it's still missing some important artifacts (budget restrictions, perhaps?): Big screen TV, beer filled fridge (for those always critical beer summits - "Hey, Benji, have a brewski! Now about those West Bank settlements..."), giant bong, a bunch of guys in addition to Benji and Heigl, with names like BC, Otter, Bluto, Stork, and D-Day loafing around in their underwear, skipping class and playing video games. O, wait, that's what the cabinet does. <br /><br />The spare change recovered from the cracks between the seat cushions on those giant over-stuffed couches should go a long way towards helping President Obama close the federal budget deficit! And the Smithsonian will no doubt treasure the presidential snack crumbs collection the Obamas will enjoy retrieving from those same cracks, and one day contribute charitably for a big tax write off, just like Bill Clinton donated his used underwear collection. <br /><br />But PLEASE keep the aging and increasingly frail Nancy Reagan far hence, or it's curtain for that old bird! Just saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-51999541235669258742010-09-02T19:37:57.161-07:002010-09-02T19:37:57.161-07:00In the imperial 80's, it was a bowl red jelly ...In the imperial 80's, it was a bowl red jelly beans. Now, it's a bowl of fruit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-11649210437573126792010-09-02T19:01:08.489-07:002010-09-02T19:01:08.489-07:00Looks like an upscale Pottery Barn room...hope tha...Looks like an upscale Pottery Barn room...hope that green stuff is real and not plastic on fireplace mantel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-25520916806780714352010-09-02T18:47:47.480-07:002010-09-02T18:47:47.480-07:00Those 80's sofas look like something someone l...Those 80's sofas look like something someone left at the curb where someone reclaimed them and sold them to the Obamas at a flea market. Nice stuff for a head of state.Yaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-6141351483587389012010-09-02T17:20:04.433-07:002010-09-02T17:20:04.433-07:00I'm with Anon 3.12 about the secret door.
I wa...I'm with Anon 3.12 about the secret door.<br />I was looking for the painting with the eye holes cut out and somebody lurking in the "secret" room.<br />I also dislike velvet and would not fancy sitting on the furniture.<br />Boring, boring joint.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-16428290777134936852010-09-02T15:12:38.153-07:002010-09-02T15:12:38.153-07:00And what's with the wallpaper on the 'secr...And what's with the wallpaper on the 'secret door'? Was something high that day? The paperhanger or maybe the humidity? A more open approach would have been to make the door(s) actually look like doors.<br />I'm sure no one goes behind those things, well not since Clinton left the building.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com