FIRST TONIGHT on an *EPIC* #FridayNightZillow: An *amazing* Norwegian-style home built by hand out of solid redwood by a brilliant pathologist who found the 2018 Spanish flu in lung tissue of bodies buried in Alaskan permafrost. $1.6M. Follow along... 1/ zillow.com/homedetails/22…?
The pathologist, inventor, mountaineer and "one of the world's leading authorities on labyrinths and runes," Johan Hultin, died in January. This New York Times obit of his quest to isolate the 2018 Spanish flu is amazing: nytimes.com/2022/01/27/hea…#FridayNightZillow
"This house is a replica of the Norwegian Vastveitloftet from the Skansen Stockholm open-air museum of Scandinavian architecture." Says it was built to last 1,000 years. #FridayNightZillow
Hultin, per the Zillow listing, also invented a crash-absorbing automobile bumper and a hand brake for chainsaws. The Washington Post's obit of him here is also good: washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…#FridayNightZillow
It's been a long week. OF COURSE I meant the ***1918*** Spanish flu. Twitter, I would pay you $50 for an edit button right about now, but you still haven't figured out how to take my money for a typo. #FridayNightZillow
I could totally live here. Good vibes, great setting. MUCH MORE #FridayNightZillow to come! Next up: $199K artist's home, then a West Virginia cray cray cray compound.
Next on #FridayNightZillow: A shockingly cheap, renowned artist's home in Milan, Minnesota. It's a living museum to her art, and the local arts school is raising money to preserve it. On Zillow for *$199K*??? That's #CheapZillow! zillow.com/homedetails/10…
These intricate details are throughout the home. Specializing in Rosemaling and Dalamalning, artist Karen Jenson's "Trestuen Garden Gallery" has 50 years worth of her work in it. Gorgeous gardens. Amazing character. Insane price. #FridayNightZillow
PBS profiled Karen Jenson in her cool home. Brought a smile to my face, and we need more of those this week I think. #FridayNightZillow
Next up: the "Keyes Ferry Estate." It's wild and wonderful in West Virginia and it's on #FridayNightZillow! $2.95M in Charles Town. Has it's own chapel, tower, pool, and much more on 30 acres. ~8K sf. zillow.com/homedetails/11…
I guess this is a pagoda? I love it. Pool/greenhouse, sitting area. #FridayNightZillow
I love a house with drama. This one delivers! The ceilings! #FridayNightZillow
Beautiful, oversized kitchen. Plus an antique Tappan! Some of the flooring must go. #FridayNightZillow
This house has some sinks that will wake you up and a green hot tub w/a nice skylight. #FridayNightZillow
Midcentury modern house + a modern mansion w/50 foot lap pool on a hilltop in California. $8.8M. It has MUCHO eye candy, which is why it's on #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/39…?
The American Hotel in Sharon Springs, NY. Seems like we'd be idiots not to buy this. $1.25M. 9BR/12BA, classy, furnished on the National Register. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homedetails/19…?
Comes with nice plaque and it's already been renovated and everything. #FridayNightZillow
Welp. This is part of the outside entertainment complex at a gaudy NJ party mansion. Lazy river/slide/bridge/grotto? $4.8M. The inside of this house is 💥. #FridayNightZillowzillow.com/homes/15-Embry…?
When New Jersey wants to get its gaud on, it plays for keeps. Look at those columns! #FridayNightZIllow
This bathroom may or may not cause me permanent brain damage. Will know in about a week. #FridayNightZillow
Bowling alley! Proper placement of an ENORMOUS TV. Insanely awesome round seating area surrounding a round internal firepit. (I'd want some fire if I lived in Canada too!) #FridayNightZillow
More eye candy. Hope you enjoyed this edition of #FridayNightZillow and got a break from everything. As usual lately, nearly all of these homes were found by my wife and sister-in-law. See you guys next week.
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This week's #FridayNightZillow kicks off with an over-the-top, "new construction" Florida mega-mansion for Ferrari aficionados. It's properly insane, and yet hangs together well. $55 million on "Billionaire's Row" in Delray Beach. Feature a private soccer field, several party showers, the most luxurious bar I've ever seen, and an assortment of other eye candy. So follow along and tell your friends... | Crossposting on BlueSky. If you had 300 years of a Senate salary, you still couldn't afford it
So #FridayNightZillow is back with a BANG! This is the Bonkers McBonkerspants Mansion of the Year! $25M. BOCA. Warning: You'll need to ice your retinas. 209 pics of overstuffed insanity! Crossposting on BlueSky and Threads. buff.ly/3OcGdfc?https:…
Imagine walking in and the first thing you see is this slide and murals everywhere. This house is *relentless.* #FridayNightZillow
If you are spending $25M you don't want one of those cookie-cutter black and white dining rooms in all the Potomac McMansions. Here, you get dragons and looks like Chihuly? #FridayNightZillow
"One of the most beautiful Earthships ever built"
Welcome to #FridayNightZillow. $725K. New Mexico. Runs on rainwater and solar panels. Grow your food in your own greenhouse. Enjoy! zillow.com/homedetails/19…
Thanks to @MolotovFlicker for sending this one in
This house is 6K sf in DC, and has a party shower. #FridayNightZillow. I thought it would be priced higher. <$3M. Not sure about the curb appeal. What say you? zillow.com/homedetails/57…
Two years ago, Congress considered banning 18-20 year-olds from buying AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles after the Uvalde massacre, and some Republicans were briefly open to doing so but ultimately blocked including a ban in the bipartisan gun bill signed by Biden.
Then-Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a law raising the age to buy guns in his state to 21 after the Parkland massacre, but then opposed doing the same for the nation as a US Senator. He told reporters it was easier to do it at the state level.
McConnell actually enacted a law one day to raise the age to buy cigarettes to 21. But he didn't want to talk two years ago about a proposal to raise the age for buying rifles.
Soaring cost estimates for extending Trump tax cuts set up a crucial 2025 fight:
*CBO puts tab at $4.6 Trillion over next decade
*Fight comes with US debt far higher than 2017, interest costs ballooning & Social Security cliff looming...
w/@chrisjcondon bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
*Trump wants more tax cuts, along with massive new tariffs — aka a tax on imports — that would raise consumer prices but offset at least some of the cost.
*Biden wants to extend breaks <$400K a year paired with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
If past is prologue, Congress will again play Santa Claus. With a few exceptions, Congress has repeatedly increased spending and cut taxes since 2001.
Tonight's #FridayNightZillow is kicking off with a *House of the Year* contender. It's amazeballs! We just need to crowdfund $2.795M. We get 9,825 square feet of sheer madness on 36 acres in gorgeous Plymouth, Minnesota! I love it!!! INSANE sinks, WEIRD art, WILD ceilings, AMAZING kitchen, views, colors galore, a pond, a party shower and much, MUCH more. Several of you sent me this gem! 🧵 zillow.com/homedetails/51…
This is a Sink! #SinkZillow #FridayNightZillow
This is a Sink! #SinkZillow #FridayNightZillow #OMG