Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Groundscore
Leslie almost nabbed a cabinet discarded near the dumpster yesterday for her hip NYC apartment and the story reminded me: so my living room couch? Total groundscore. That's what we call it here: 'groundscore.' It's a verb, it's a noun, it's a sagging stained sofa. And baby, it's in my living room in slipcovered glory. Here groundscore quality is all based on neighborhood: touch anything up for grabs in the Haight, and you'll take home piss and pot smoke. Pac Heights: that desk is probably a month's pay. Take it even if you have to drag it twenty blocks home to the projects. Take it even if you hate the carved curlicues on the cherry legs. Take it and craigslist it for $30 and celebrate your fine business sense by blowing the entire profit on the most expensive pizza place in your neighborhood and a dusty bottle of wine from the corner store. Because at the end of the night, when you're sinking into the cushioned crater of your North Beach-nabbed sofa, you're gonna feel like a million bucks.
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In college, my sibling had a groundscore loveseat couch. Or, maybe he paid $20 at goodwill - don't remember - anyways. He's a boy - "slipcover" is not in his vocabulary. However, "duct-taping a king-size sheet around a loveseat" IS in his vocabulary.
Happy Thanksgiving!
"Groundscore" huh? Where I come from a "groundscore" meant "getting lucky" on the floor. But then again, I've never lived on the West Coast. Hope you get "groundscored" on your awesome couch!
in my LJ I just asked if 'ground score' is common in American lexicon and it seems to be more a San Francisco thing. The first few hits on google are from either San Francisco, hippy bands, grass roots 'green' type groups. Even the entry in urban dictionary is from a San Franciscoian. I now read your blog and lo' you're from SF too.
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