mushinnoshin

Dear Internets,

Once again I must lament the lack of a furniture search engine providing advanced searches by dimension.

OK, so, I’m trying to find a tv stand. TV console might be a better description of what I want. Problem is everything I find is either wide and short, or tall and thin. I need medium-tall and medium-wide.

I like my tv to sit a bit high. So I’m thinking 30″ high at least. Give or take -2/+8 or so… Most everything I’ve found in that range are also around 30″ wide. But I want something probably between 40″ and 60″ or so … 45″ to 50″ probably being the sweet spot.

Open shelving for gear in the middle. I don’t really care what kind of small shelving or storage flanks the sides, but *some*, eg not an all-open shelf thing.

Probably black. Prefer wood, metal/glass/other considered. Straight lines, modern or classical

This “Low Cabinet with Sliding Doors – Antique Black” is sooo very close that I very nearly pulled the trigger — before I found precise specs for the interior space on another site, and found the interior shelves won’t hold any gear. You need at least 15″-16″ depth, and on the width, figure the devices are usually 17″ and you want some breathing room.

If the Kathy Ireland IMTL363 – Tribeca Loft Tall Console has a little cousin it could be a contender. But still, really looking for more open space in the middle, smaller utility shelves/drawers/doors/whatever on the sides. And, uhh, I won’t cripple the search with an exact price requirement, but, umm, not that much. Just figure I already broke the budget getting what goes with it :)

If anyone finds the winner I’ll definitely buy you beer. Two if I like you!

UPDATE: I might have found it. It’s a little more than I want to spend, but maybe not more than I can realistically expect. I’ll sleep on it and give it some time in the morning before I say go. Beer offer still applies if you happen to find the same one. In fact I’ll buy three just in appreciation of your accuracy :)

UPDATE2: OK, done deal, we have a winner.

I’m afraid if I don’t post something, then the gears of this software might rust or atrophy or something. So I’ll tell ya that I got a couple of Philip Glass discs for Christmas, including his latest opera Waiting for the Barbarians.

Which is excellent, except it’s funny because for the last month or so I’ve been listening the hell out of Artificial Soldier, the latest album by long time favorites Front Line Assembly, which has a fantastic track called Future Fail, with a chorus that chants “Hail… the barbarians / … / Greet… the barbarians / … “.

So naturally my weird little brain is trying to mash the two together. It really doesn’t work very well.

I can prove it! Using nothing but the most advanced forms of wingnut logic.

See, Ronald Reagan was a member of the Republican Party. Barry Goldwater was also once a member of the Republican Party. Barry Goldwater once employed a speechwriter by the name of Karl Hess. Karl Hess said of Emma Goldman:

Hess said that upon reading the works of Emma Goldman he discovered that anarchists believed everything he had hoped the Republican Party would represent, and that Goldman was the source for the best and most essential theories of Ayn Rand without any of the “crazy solipsism that Rand was so fond of.”

Emma Goldman of course was a domestic terrorist, and would one day be an inspiration to feminists who would ally with the Nashville Peace and Justice Center. And apparently The Nashville Peace and Justice Center once shared a landlord with the US Communist Party.

QED, Ronald Reagan was a Communist.

If the conservative nitwits are terrified of anarchist icon Emma Goldman, does that mean we can finally dispense of the notion that conservatism has anything remotely whatsoever to do with libertarianism?

I think the words of another famous American domestic terrorist are apt:

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

– Thomas Jefferson

PS: And just look at all those other horrible people the NPJC is involved with! Recycling! Veterans for Peace! People who care about the homeless! People who care about the environment! People with the audacity to think immigrants and refugees are human beings with rights! Quakers! Four other church associations! What dastardly villains these people must be!

See also: Aunt B

…is that the frequent making of fists is an incredibly effective way to remember to keep your fingernails trimmed.

Yeah, that’s how little I have to talk about right now. Well, there are things, but all the good thoughts are sloshing around in the muddiest depths of my brain, clearly in no shape to go out in public.