Brian's quite remarkable blog of wonder.

I love history. Or if not history, then old-timey stuff. This makes me pretty picky when it comes to figuring out where to move. I'm personally of the opinion that, in the way of cheap housing, very few buildings and homes have been built since about 1960 that have any character whatsoever. Newer affordable places all seem to be dun boxes of aluminum siding with two to four equally-shaped windows, aesthetic nightmares all of them. I don't like that. Fortunately, Iowa City has several well-preserved historic neighborhoods, of which consist a multitude of beautiful old houses and buildings; narrow, svelte, efficient, often adorned with front porch, no two alike, organized under tall trees along formerly brick-laden streets. And each one contains at least half a dozen college students. On Thursday, I'm going to be shown just such a house, split into a duplex, that Danny, Dan and I are keen to rent for August 1. I can't wait.