"It may only be four walls and a couple of nail kegs, but it will always be home to me."

Muriel Blandings: I refuse to endanger the lives of my children in a house with less than four bathrooms.
Jim: For 1,300 dollars they can live in a house with three bathrooms and ROUGH IT.

The Siren is changing lodgings this weekend and thus will be offline until la famille Campaspe gets its house in order and its modem modem-ing--Wednesday, say. Meanwhile, consider this an open thread, the first in Self-Styled Siren history. Play nice and have fun.