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-DYLAN THOMAS

Vote For Your Favorite Potential Outhouse

11/6/2016

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If the closest I can get to an indoor bathroom in Vernonia right now is "The Outhouse"--I'll take it!

Believe it or not, city kid that I was, I had a periodic outhouse experience as a child. My mother owned a publishing company with a couple of other left-wing extremists. They published poetry, art, short story anthologies and public domain stuff they thought worth re-printing (Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, My Life by Emma Goldman, Poetry by William Carlos Williams to name a few.) These "involved" folk bought some land on top of a hill about 65 miles North of San Francisco (think "intellectual militia") There was a house and a few outbuildings that were later used to house the presses and books, but never any electricity or running water. The access road was 1 mile straight up--unimproved on purpose. "We don't want people just driving up here for fun!" (Besides the number of cars that were destroyed by this road over the years, one of them ended up driving off one of the many cliffs--unintentionally, of course. He was loaded out of his mind and died immediately. Every car-ride up and down that so-called road,  I was always waiting to go over the edge- everyone was always drunk or high.) At the top, near the house, there was an outhouse perched on the edge of one of these cliffs. The thinking went like this: why dig a hole when you have a cliff? It was a little breezy. There was a bucket of lyme on the floor and a plastic man on a unicycle resting on top of the toilet paper roll whose feet turned the pedals when one pulled the paper. That was my favorite part.  Anyway, I know what's what. I'm good.

So, my multi-talented husband is going to fashion for us a dazzling specimen of an outhouse out of a used shipping crate. A major shipping company is just giving them away! Cha-ching!

Which one do you think captures the concept of "Outhouse" best?
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Picture
Features:
8' x 12'
Room for a
counter and 
vanity/lounge!
Husband says:
"Do you really 
want to lounge in an outhouse,
sweetheart?"

Picture
Features:
5' x 7'
Infrastructure is on the inside--(always a good thing) and large enough for interior decor!
Husband says:
"Do you really want to do interior decorating for an outhouse, sweetheart?"

Picture
Features: 
5' x 7'
Has a tiger head stenciled on the outside!
Husband says:
"We could stencil a tiger on any of them, sweetheart!"

Picture
Features:
7' x 10'
Big enough for extras on the inside, counter, mirror, lounge.
Husband says:
"I'm not sure you are really going to want to be hanging out in there, sweetheart...am I missing something?"

Picture
Features:
GIGANTIC
I am a product of this American culture--even when I know better! Outhouses are meant to be small and unimposing, I believe...
Husband says:
"No! Sweetheart!"
Picture
Features:
7' x 10'
Well made and from Berlin. Things from Berlin are mysterious and therefore more valuable.
Husband says:
"I think we should consider where we are going to put this outhouse--normally they are not that big!"

So, there you have it! We will be picking up one or more of these next week. Which one do you like?
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