If you can't live on the Las Vegas Strip, bring the Las Vegas Strip to you
Anne Samowitz is a normal, committed reader of this weblog and the alternative day she mailed me an MLS listing for a belongings in the marketplace in lengthy Island, New York. The residence is a nightmare of ostentation and terrible taste and it is able to be yours for a totally reasonable $17.Five million.
The listing agent calls it the antithisis of fine living in the listing. Hmmmm. Antithesis means opposite and let me get Dictionary.com's official definition before we go a step further.
an·tith·e·sis [an-tith-uh-sis]
?Noun, plural -ses ?[-seez]
- opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
- the direct opposite (usually fol. by of or to ): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly.
- Rhetoric
- the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in “Give me liberty or give me death.”
- the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as “or give me death.”
So both the list agent is being smart or she wishes a vocabulary refresher. There's a life lesson right here although youngsters, don't use phrases you don't apprehend.
OK, onward. Let's take a walk thru the wonders that wait for the rapper/ professional athlete/ lottery winner/ Celine Dion on this once in an entire life list. The Celine Dion crack turned into Anne's and it is best.
Don't you adore the human scale of this room? It simply invites you to curve up on the couch and examine a book.
This kitchen's listed as a Custom Peacock Kitchen and I'll bet Mr. Peacock would be surprised to receive credit for that room up there. Wasn't it clever of them to make the ceiling so unrelated to anything going on in the room under it. That seems to be a recurring theme in this house. Context? We don't need no stinkin' context!
Nothing says "You've made it" like his 'n hers Skee Ball.
Again, why just appreciate The Bellagio when you may live in it complete time?
The photo above seems to be the "foyer" of the house theater.
This is the box office. Note the two movie posters. To the left we have 1996's Striptease starring Demi Moore. Striptease made Showgirls look like Gone with the Wind. If you don't remember it you're not missing much. To the right hangs a poster for 1997's Titanic. I will never understand the appeal of that awful movie. Never. But it seems were just in time for a screening of 1991's What About Bob? Based on the movie mentions, I'd say the current owner had a career that peaked at some point in the '90s. Jean-Claude Van Damme? No, then the posters would be for Cyborg and Kickboxer. Hmmm. I wonder wonder wonder.
Here's the inside of the theater. If this home doesn't come with a resident company of Phantom or Riverdance, it needs one.
It has packing containers. Two of them. For traveling royalty.
I do not have $17.Five million laying around to spend on a house. If I did however, I suppose I may want to do higher than to recreate the Las Vegas Strip. What do you men suppose?