In last week’s episode, I was hoping to start a movement around my random housekeeping activities.  Since I’m a neurotic middle-class white person, I urged the NYT Magazine to devote a trend article to my decision to hang up my laundry.  With binder clips.  Turns out:  it’s already a movement. And I totally love their logo:

I asked WordPress to make the image as large as possible, so you could all see the eagle-eyed eagle firmly grasping a clothesline full of undies.  Their site actually contains this sentence:  “Line-drying is patriotic.”   Comrades!

The reason it’s a movement is the source of deep regret for me, however.  Turns out many homeowners associations don’t permit line-drying, providing further evidence that HOAs are not only cleverly disguised agents of Satan, but unpatriotic to boot.*  My regret is that my laundry hangs incognito in my basement, without the ability to piss off anyone, much less an HOA.  Perhaps I should take photos of it and hang them up around my yard. . . .

*If I’m ever involved in litigation with an HOA and opposing counsel tries to admit this statement into evidence, remember:  it’s called “hyperbole.”  Even if it were admissible, it would only be admissible for the proposition that opposing counsel has no sense of humor.