Remember the highly slanted article in the Wall Street Journal, Three Martini Renovation? A lot of people were pretty upset with the author for hoodwinking them into contributing to her preconceived piece. But the timing worked out pretty well–since the article appeared shortly before Halloween, some people chose to find the humor in the situation. Check out the photo at the top of this article:
On a related note, the original WSJ article, (which is no longer available for free), was re-printed in the Chicago paper, and Jason and Jennifer (Humphrey House bloggers) were at least able to get some editing done on the story.
Jennifer Saranow at the Wall Street Journal has an article on home-improvement parties. (The article will only be available for free for a week, but there’s always Bug Me Not if you don’t feel like registering.) Jennifer has been interviewing me, my family, friends and our general contractor for several weeks, since she stumbled across one of my “demolition party” articles. Judging from the title of the article, (”The Three-Martini Renovation”), it looks like the focus was on drinking-and-demolishing — sounds like an excellent way to win a Darwin Award to me, and certainly not something I’d permit my friends and family to engage in. My favorite line from the article:
Don’t open the bar until the work is finished.
To which I’ll add: DUH!
Something cool I learned from the article–there’s a meta site for remodeling-related blogs. My general-purpose blog here doesn’t seem to be a perfect fit, but I’ve joined anyway. I’ll have to play with WordPress and see if I can generate a remodel-specific Atom/RSS feed for the site.
