Secrets of the City

For some reason this reminds me of the saunas I saw at the state fair that were shaped like giant barrels. I don’t know why but it does.

Regardless, I’m going to use the extra $13 in my paycheck to purchase one of these little cabins to live in. It’s exactly what Obama wants me to do. As soon as I get a job.

I was fairly obsessed with Tumbleweed Tiny Houses for a while. Same idea, maybe a bit more to them.

I’ve been inside this Tumbleweed Tiny House. It was pretty cool, but I don’t think I could live in it.

I’ve always wanted a tiny cabin in my basement.

Where’s the open thread?

Oh, wait, it’s only Thursday, isn’t it?

It’s Thursday

If I were going to have a cabin (which I’m not that interested in) I’d want one with indoor plumbing.

How long have I been away from MnSpeak? Doesn’t The Rat refer to himself/herself/itself in the third person anymore?

He still does, but now for effect.

We used to call the outhouse the “wee wee cabin.”

These cabins also remind of of those super-nice little playhouses that rich people can commission for their kids for the mere cost of a car.

I would buy one of these cabins and turn it into a luxurious outhouse. Then I’d live in my car. As someone who has lived in a dorm not that long ago, I think I could deal with this type of setup. At least space-wise.

I would bet that most of these wee cabins end up as outbuildings on much vaster estates. If it doesn’t have permanent footings/foundation I think you can put it a lot closer to the water.

Looks basically like a place to get away from the wife, read a book, take a little peyote…maybe just get wierd.

Ice shack.

“Looks basically like a place to get away from the wife, read a book, take a little peyote…maybe just get wierd.”

And to think The Rat took a rather benign view of this shacks. They might just destroy society as we know it. Imagine row after row of these things with people doing godknowswhat in them.

The ryanol was just joking about the peyote comment.

He doesn’t condone taking illegal hallucinogenics…especially in tight spaces or near mirrors.

PS: don’t look at your hands for too long either.

I could be comfortable in 216 square foot cabin. I don’t think I could make it through the winter in one though … without illegal hallucinogenics that is.

@douglasG but in this economy think of the money you’d save on heating costs!

Tiny cabin Hoovervilles! Or would they be called Bushtowns now?

Obamatopias.

Federally constructed housing with highly favorable mortgage interest rates.

You’ll get this house and like it!

Ok. I’ll get it, but I won’t like it!

I’m going to buy one and use it as a stable for the unicorn that Obama will be giving each of us as part of the stimulus package.

Nothing stimulates the economy better than unicorns…nothing!

That is so true, Bob. Just look at the job security Rainbow Brite had. She never had to deal with a recession!

The Rat doesn’t want a unicorn. But maybe he won’t be allowed to turn it down. Like the banks and states aren’t allowed to turn down the stimulus money.

I could easily live in one of these. Now I really want one! More than one! (I’ll need at least a wee-wee house plus a shed for the unicorn.)

The Wee Cabin Company sees people like you coming a mile away, Jane. You acquire these things like kittens and then you don’t know what to do with them. They deteriorate, get picked up by tornadoes….

Geez, Rat, don’t be a sourpuss. Even Bobby Jindal isn’t turning down the unicorns and he refuses to take .1 billion for unemployment for people in his state. It’s about time we got unicorns. I’ve been advocating for at least subsidizing unicorns since I was 3.

I think these cabins are great for transient people because I think they could easily be outfitted with wheels. They’re so versatile! Also.

Rat I hope they DO see me coming, and give me a quantity discount. I’d put a couple in my back yard and could rent them out to roaming gangs of internet trivia vengeange teams, or hoboes, or whomever.

hobos? hoboes? Both look wrong.

The plural form may be the same as the singular.

I think the plural is hobi.
And the singular is hoboe. At least that’s what I heard from Dan Quayle.

Ely, eh? Maybe this is the type of cabin Maz is going to retire to, along with all the people he holds in high esteem. Yeah, he’d be there by himself.

If you orchestrate a wandering band of vagrants, you would be directing a troupe of hoboes. Or is that not clarinet for you? Chime in with your opinion, please.

Jeez. You nobos. It’s “hobos.”

Max, I just read a review of new Hoover biography online at Portfolio.com, and they spell it “hoboes.”

Googlefight is pretty clear on the winner.

What does John Hodgeson say about the pluralization of “hobo”?

@noodleman

Man, how desperate to get published do you have to be to write the biography of Hoover.

what about 3 days of filthy marijuana-induced sex in one of those houses?

FTR, the flickr group inspired by Hodgeson: http://www.flickr.com/groups/700hoboes/

John Hodgman — Hodgman… Also, it is Joel Hodgson from MST3K. Who John Hodgeson is — I haven’t a clue.

Heh–oops! I suspected I was spelling his name wrong, but didn’t much care. I do like him, so no offense to Hodgthingy