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The Rumpus Room can be described in two ways: the one you had and the one you wished you had. They called their parents by their first names and happily led us into their Rumpus Room while the adults went out to the pool to eat cashews and drink Moselle. She had two younger brothers who had the same confidence, but weren’t wearing bikinis. The oldest, at 14, was parading around in a bikini and sun visor and carrying a Yonex tennis racket. The McRichfucks had three kids, all around our ages but twice as good looking. Inside we met a family with clean, fluffy seventies hair, sparkling teeth and golden tans. As we pulled into the driveway, parking the family Kingswood behind the shiny red Mercedes convertible, we all sat wide-eyed while Dad muttered something about it looking like the sort of place they filmed pornos. They had a sprawling Hamptons-style white timber home surrounded by a row of sculpted hedges, manicured lawns and perfectly formed oak trees.

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It was during the summer of 1979 when one of Mum’s colleagues invited us over for a family barbecue and we felt like we had walked straight on to the set of the American TV show Hart to Hart*. I’m hoping that anyone who picked up a Harry Potter book will buy it! I think it’s a good one for people with an insta addiction because it’s punchy and easy to read! CHAPTER 2: The Rumpus Room Some of the nostalgic pull comes from the shots feeling like your parents may have taken them! I had a bunch of people with great photos of mid century houses offer their photos but it didn’t sit with the feeling I wanted. A few are my wife Michelle’s, Brisbane artist Sam Cranstoun supplied a couple, and the great photo of the Horizon apartment was taken by architect Stephen Collier.īecause the book is designed to look like it was published in the 1970s, the images lend themselves to a rawer look. Melbourne architect Andy Wong who works for John Wardle supplied some of the best I really love his eye. These photos are mostly mine or sourced from friends.

The images are not glossy architectural shots, they were chosen to be more real and grittier. If ‘ Streets Of Your Town‘ told the broader social history of our suburbs and it’s architecture, this is very much the story of what happens within those houses and suburbs. I began writing a line here or then and quite often wrote a story based on a house I saw.

I had burning desire to write another book, and in my travels around the country I started to get inspired by certain places, conversations and assorted random things. It’s not a book about architecture, but it’s a book inspired by architecture. Some of them are personal and some are not, but I think all of them speak of some of the experiences we share as Australians.

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I see this book as a series of stories that capture a sense of how we live. This allows them to make fun of the network.Houses are the vessels for our lives and therefore our stories. The Simpsons producers contract allows them to write the show without interference from Fox. The Simpsons episode where Bart gets an elephant was based on a real Price is Right incident in 1956 The contest rules said that a winner would be selected from the pool of people who guessed correctly, but there were no correct guesses. There was no winner for the ” Who shot Mr. The tomatoes grown have nicotine in them. Tomacco ( tomato/tobacco hybrid ) from The Simpsons actually exists. Lisa Simpson remains a vegetarian as a promise from the show’s staff to Paul McCartney The Simpsons episode the Itchy and Scratchy & Poochie show was the writer’s response to Fox requesting they add another character to the family to freshen up the series. Related: 18 real people who look like characters from The Simpsons The Rumpus RoomĪs a technical supervisor and the appointed safety inspector, Homer also makes less than $25K a year There is a rarely seen room in The Simpsons home.

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