October 26, 2006

• Buncha goddamn hippies.
• But I like the housetrucks ... have to wonder how roadworthy some of them are though. Stupid hippies.
• These trucks are so frickin' awesome.
• *wonders which gypsy reads palms*
• I want one really badly! Ima get me a hammer and some nails and wood and stuff. I'll be right back!
• If Ima had me a hammer, Ima hammer in the morning.
• Very cool, but this method of mounting a propane tank seems profoundly unsafe to me. If I see one of these on the road, I'll stay way back (or pass it at 90 miles an hour)!
• I'll heat mine with wood.
• So, were any of these actually built post 1968? Damn hippies. Not that I don't have that background desire to say fuck it all and live in a nice shiny airstream . . .
• SEVENTY-FIVE GALLONS of propane!?!?! That's not a house, it's a bomb on wheels. So does he run on propane or is he planning to stay in the house all winter? I lubs me some redneck trucks.
• That lumber must be damned heavy. If I was doing this, I would check around and see if anyone has built a rolling house out of, say, sheet metal?
• I just realized he added another 50 gallon tank on the other side. Overkill.
• That's so cool. Honey what view do we want to wake up to next week?
• Fencemenders wanted.
• My family lived and travelled in a converted schoolbus for a while. It's was kinda of Merry Pranksterish, but with less drugs and more "Mom! Layne's looking at me again!!!"
• Wow, "It's was" and "kinda of"... maybe there were more drugs than I thought.
• *explores porosity of layne's brain*
• Stop. You are making the holes bigger.
• You're touching my music lessons!
• Huh. This part of your brain tastes like chicken soup.
• Hm. It's like a series of tubes in here.
• I dunno. All the mobile homes, housetrucks, RVs, etc. seem too narrow for me. I have been interested in houseboats though. This one seems particularly homey, if unmanueverable (more of a floating island). This is the one I'd have if I needed to be a James Bond villain...because, you know, you need to consider those things. Naturally, since every interest in America needs a magazine, there's one on "houseboating" too.
• At least in Sausalito, Calif., houseboats were never meant to be manueverable.
• if unmanueverable They move it around using the skiffs tied to the 4 corners.
• I've been to some of those houseboats, and I have a very disturbing photo somewhere of a power pole to which a dozen or so houseboats have hooked up dodgy power connections. Amazing boats, though. And when they all burn down due to wiring problems, they're nice and close to water. :P