Architecture Wednesday: Studio House

Located near the Uvita town in Costa Rica, Studio House is a private villa situated on the same site as Achioté—a group short-term rental villas—and is perched on a south-facing slope above the Pacific; an ideal setting for both adventurous vacations and everyday living. The house presents as a minimalist volume, with rammed earth walls punctuated by large openings for sliding glass panels through which the home opens into the surrounding jungle.

More than half of the two-level villa’s footprint consists of terraces and a pool. The main living area upstairs is fully open to the ocean and is really just a covered terrace. A levitating platform leads to the main entrance and also serves as a roof over the downstairs bathroom. Passing through the living area and kitchen is a terrace with built-in grill and from there a steel staircase descends to the pool while another leads to the rooftop terrace.

The upper-level living area is a single open space, anchored by a four-meter concrete kitchen island with a wall of cabinetry; the living area faces the sea with a generous deck upon which to enjoy the views and the stars at night. At the rear, a spacious laundry room and utility space occupy the windowless section while a sunlit hallway leads to two smaller bedrooms, a bathroom alcove, and a toilet. Though compact, the bedrooms can be accessed from the pool and enjoy expansive views beyond the ocean; the bathroom also has direct pool access and offers an ocean view straight from the shower.

The home’s earthy palette resonates with the surrounding greenery. Wabi-sabi, a Japanese philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness, is reflected in the selected materials, whose aging and transformation over time are embraced as a path toward a new vision of natural elegance.

It is rich yet simple, striking yet minimalist … a perfect home away from it all.

Amazing Architecture

Meme Dump

Ain't That America XXXIII

War, child rape, drunken FBI directors, lying Attorney Generals, the wrong First Lady and the wrong President being called to Congress to testify about Jeffrey Epstein.

It’s been a helluva week …

The White House released a photo of Cankles and his regime monitoring the progress of the illegal attack on Iran from the “Flatulation Room “at Mar-Illegal.

Of course, he had a picture snapped because he wants to be Barack Obama and knows that will never happen:

Cankles then declared that “most evil” Khamenei was killed in the attack and rumors suggest schoolchildren were also killed but, hey, the five-time draft dodger got his photo op.

 

In a visit to central Wisconsin, Vice President JD Vance implored voters to not give power back to the “crazy” Democrats blaming hospital closures on “problems inherited from Biden.”

He failed to mention it was the massive Republican cuts to Medicaid funding that kept those hospitals afloat.

 

Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered immediately invalid.

Why? Is there one person who can tell me why without resorting to the bible—lower case b—or some unnamed fear of trans people? Spare me the trans people rape children because it’s not them … it’s the priests, and ministers, and pastors, and rabbis in your places of worship who are fucking children.

Oh and it’s your president, too.

 

A federal judge reprimanded the Cankles regime for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 … when he was 4 years old.

Government lawyers attached a document from ICEstapo that they “indicated” was related to his criminal history but West Virginia District Judge Irene Berger noted the “differences in birthdate, birthplace, parents’ names, and immigration status.”

You cannot make this shit up.

 

Border Czar and con artist Tom Homan tried to school Pope Leo XIV on Catholic teachings about immigration.

Homan prefaced his unsolicited theological lesson to the Pope by touting his credentials as a “life-long Catholic.”  He went on to attack Leo for criticizing the Cankles Regime’s mass deportation campaign, asserting that Leo failed to grasp Catholic doctrine.

Seriously?

 

It wasn’t just the blanket left behind on a plane that got Kristi DogKiller Noem so riled up that she fired the pilot. It was, according to three DHS insiders, another item left on that flight last spring: Noem’s bag. No one knows for certain what was inside the bag—or they aren’t saying—but it was enough to cause Border Barbie and her Bitch Boy Corey Lewandowski to go apeshit.

What was in the bag, Kristi, which had you and your married lover  Corey freaking out?

 

The New York Times reports that many documents released by the DOJ from its investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein failed to include some key materials related to a woman who made an accusation against Cankles.

The materials are FBI memos summarizing interviews the bureau did in connection to claims made in 2019 by a woman who came forward after Epstein’s arrest to say she had been sexually assaulted by both Cankles and Epstein when she was a minor.

Hey Pammy? Does the DOW erase the rape of a child by your boss?

 

After the State of the Union speech where Cankles got into a shouting match with Representative Ilhan Omar, Rudy Giuliani attacks Omar for looking “too” Muslim:

“Muslims have a choice about how they how they dress. And you can look Muslim and look more American than that … You don’t come here to remain Somali. You don’t come here to remain Italian. You don’t come here to remain German. You don’t come here to remain whatever it is you were.”

I guess Rudy no longer identifies as Italian but does claim membership in the Ignorant Goosestepping Racist Fuck Regime.

Now, I need a palate cleanser and here’s a couple:

More ballots have been cast in Texas through the first seven days of early voting for the 2026 midterms than any recent midterm or presidential election year. That turnout is fueling optimism among Texas Democrats, who are once again trying to score their first election victory for a statewide office since 1994.

Over 650,000 votes were cast in-person and by mail in the Democratic primary, compared to about 590,000 cast in the Republican primary and we know that when Democrats vote, Democrats win.

Keep in mind that the GOP is running on the idea that only they can fix the problems in Texas but fail to mention that only they have been in power for the last twenty years.

 

Democratic Congressmen Ted Lieu and Dan Goldman demand that a special counsel be appointed to investigate Attorney General Pam Bondi after she ALLEGEDLY perjured herself during her Epstein testimony:

“Testifying before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on February 11, 2026, Attorney General Bondi emphatically stated, ‘There is no evidence that [Cankles] has committed a crime.’ Yet a number of the documents from the Epstein files released to date by the Department of Justice directly contradict her statement. [And] when confronted with her lie, she did not retract her statement, she doubled down. She stated, ‘Don’t you ever accuse me of committing a crime.’ We request that you immediately appoint a special counsel to investigate Attorney General Bondi for lying under oath. America cannot have a liar and a criminal as our top law enforcement officer."

The simple fact here is that Bondi lied under oath because there are mountains of evidence in the Epstein files alleging that Cankles committed numerous crimes like assault, sexual abuse, rape, and threatening victims.

Bondi knows that, and I hope one day she is imprisoned for her lies.

There we are, another week down and the GOP has taken us into an illegal war because a madman wants you to stop talking about how he fucked a child … the GOP question two people, one of whom isn’t in the files, about Epstein, because they cannot question their Cult Leader lest he call them names …

We have one way out: vote. Vote out the child rapists and the pedophile protectors and the transphobes and the warmongers who want to send your sons and daughters to war but not theirs, vote out the regime of middle-aged frat boys and drunken asshats and the women who allow a man to get away with raping women because the stock market went up.

Vote them ALL out …..

The Funny Papers

Dave Whamond, Michael de Adder, Max Espinoza, Nick Anderson, Benjamin Slyngstad, Clay Bennett, David Horsey, Gary Huck, Tim Campbell, Drew Sheneman, RJ Matson,

Why Is It ...

… that people don’t realize that a fuck must be earned; I cannot go down the street with a bucket of fucks handing them out willy nilly. If I feel you’ve earned a fuck, I’ll give a fuck.

… that I hate it when I say that I hate people and someone says, “But not me, right? LOL.” No bitch, it’s especially you.

… that I can look directly at a person, nod when they’re talking and throw in a “Yeah,” or an “I know,” and yet not hear a word they’re saying

… that I feel the need to tell people that I am not toxic; I am classier than that … I am toxique….

… that I often feel the need to tell people who are speaking to me that I Googled “Who gives a shit?” and my name wasn’t in the search results

… that I know five people that are clinically insane and two of them are me.

… that I feel like life is a helicopter and I don’t know how to fly a helicopter.

… that my signature move is to bottle up my feelings over time and then combust over some small issue and get accused of being a psycho.

… that I hate it when people to tell me to open up. I mean, I just met you like eight years ago, give me some time.

… that right after I say some things I remind myself that some things aren't better left unsaid.