Wednesday WTF

Keep Your Shirt On, Because Here’s Abercrombie’s Castle

By Bethany Erickson / May 23, 2018 /

So before we begin with this week’s Wednesday WTF (which features Abercrombie’s castle), I should apologize for being late. But in my defense, it was an election night last night, and I was up late. Like, really late. Like, there was this one race that someone won by a mere 25 votes and those votes…

The Dark Lord is Watching From His North Carolina Tudor

By Bethany Erickson / May 16, 2018 /

So sometimes you find a fixer and you think, “Oh, maybe there’s shiplap,” or “maybe there are hardwoods under that vinyl,” or “maybe Satan lives here.” This week’s Wednesday WTF is a reader-submitted Tudor, and is definitely a contender for a hot new HGTV show called “Beelzebub’s Baseboards.” No? How about “Lucifer and Liens?” “Mephistopheles…

Wednesday WTF: This Time, It’s Personal (and Really Hot)

By Bethany Erickson / May 9, 2018 /

Have y’all seen the forecast? It’s like Beginner’s Hades up in here. For the Wednesday WTF readers who are not from Texas, let me explain: “spring” in Texas is more like a toddler before naptime — blowing hot and cold, irrational, and really inconvenient. And it just so happens that this week will reach the…

Wednesday WTF: Marg Just Wants To Find a Renter

By Bethany Erickson / May 2, 2018 /

Social media is a wonderful thing unless it’s a terrible thing. But for Marg, who lives in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, it got a little sideways when she tried to rent out a room using a Facebook group. So sideways, in fact, that it ended up in my inbox, as the perfect Wednesday WTF. See, Marg…

Wednesday WTF: Southlake Police Bring It With a BOLO

By Bethany Erickson / April 25, 2018 /

If you’ve been following along with the Wednesday WTF for any length of time at all, you know that we adore smart alecks. We employ almost exclusively smart alecks. If we had an application for employment, I’m 92.34 percent sure that there would be a question about whether or not you’re a smart aleck that…