The Clinamenic Co-Living Diary
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luka
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Rationalists in the Bay Area often encountered financial problems. A common fix was a “rat house” with anywhere from four to nine roommates, often in violation of tenancy laws.
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luka
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Once upon a time they’d been National Merit Scholars, math-club types. Now, free from the constraints of external authorities and structures, they returned to a state of nature. They walked around naked, carried katanas, kept their own hours. They were feral, and relished it.
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Clinamenic
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I'm the accountant at this rat house.
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If anything I think its a post-rat house. If you've never snuggled in a post-rat cuddle puddle, have you even lived?
Clinamenic
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Some other fun facts I just learned about my group house, The Embassy:
- 15 monks lived on the bowling alley
- Dalai Lama came to visit once – the monks built a fancy gold litter to carry him up the stairs, but they were too steep so they gave up half way.
- Some scammers threatened to blow up the house if Kachinsky [the shoe mogul who built the house] didn’t pay them $500 in gold. He sent the cops to the pay drop location, Sacred Heart Convent, and the cops chased them but didn’t catch them until they got to LA
- Kachinsky’s wife was on the opera committee, and the wallpaper is the same as that of the opera house
- all the drapes in the house are hand made by a drag queen
- For a while, all the commercial bowling allies in the city were closed – the bowling alley in the basement was the ONE bowling alley in the entire city, either public or private. The foul line looks like a piece of black tape, but it’s actually a strip of inlaid ebony
- Someone probably died on the staircase – When they pulled up the velveteen carpet, underneath was a trail of blood going down the stairs and a massive stain of a pool of blood on the landing
- Nine different types of inlaid wood are in the floors
- Bing Crosby was a regular guest at the house.
- Outside the front door, the entire entryway is made of pure mahogany
- The music room fireplace is made of blood marble, which is no longer available in nature (don’t know what this means…)
- The dining room was made in England, taken apart, brought over, and reassembled. This was before the Panama Canal.
- The stained glass window in the kitchen depicts an onion
- 15 monks lived on the bowling alley
- Dalai Lama came to visit once – the monks built a fancy gold litter to carry him up the stairs, but they were too steep so they gave up half way.
- Some scammers threatened to blow up the house if Kachinsky [the shoe mogul who built the house] didn’t pay them $500 in gold. He sent the cops to the pay drop location, Sacred Heart Convent, and the cops chased them but didn’t catch them until they got to LA
- Kachinsky’s wife was on the opera committee, and the wallpaper is the same as that of the opera house
- all the drapes in the house are hand made by a drag queen
- For a while, all the commercial bowling allies in the city were closed – the bowling alley in the basement was the ONE bowling alley in the entire city, either public or private. The foul line looks like a piece of black tape, but it’s actually a strip of inlaid ebony
- Someone probably died on the staircase – When they pulled up the velveteen carpet, underneath was a trail of blood going down the stairs and a massive stain of a pool of blood on the landing
- Nine different types of inlaid wood are in the floors
- Bing Crosby was a regular guest at the house.
- Outside the front door, the entire entryway is made of pure mahogany
- The music room fireplace is made of blood marble, which is no longer available in nature (don’t know what this means…)
- The dining room was made in England, taken apart, brought over, and reassembled. This was before the Panama Canal.
- The stained glass window in the kitchen depicts an onion
ver$hy ver$h
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I think there's a limited supply of marble. It only exists in certain areas and once it's all mined, that's it. I remember hearing this re: someone, maybe the director, discussing the marble mine sequence in The Brutalist. It was filmed in a mine in Tuscany known for a specific marble.
