Craigslist Chorales: "Most Kick-Ass Fucking Roommate That Ever Lived" Seeks Home

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, August 19, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

Enthusiasm is rare on sleepy, sweltering Friday afternoons, which is why the person who took to Craigslist with an unbridled zest for life deserves some due attention. The posting, which first surfaced on Gizmodo, was written by a 25-year-old "professional marketing agent with experience at bad-ass companies in New York Fucking City." (Sorry to offend, but the F-bomb appears 16 times in his ad. Brace.) Anyway, this fella is headed out to San Francisco and has $1,000 per month to spend on shared housing. Some of his selling points: he turns off lights, he cleans toilets, he even cooks—"I'll fry green tomatoes, cover them with marinated crab meat and smother that shit in bearnaise. EVERY. GODDAMN. NIGHT." Plus—and this is really a big one—he's not racist: "A lot of people ask me, 'Hey, you're from Alabama. Are you racist?' And, the answer to that question is, no. I'm not racist or judgmental at all. I love everyone. I'm a secular humanist. I FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE." He implores interested parties to email him, after which he'll provide all his vital stats: "I'll hook yo ass up with Facebook links, background checks, credit reports, phone numbers, resumes, references, awards, sexual history, pictures of karate trophies and a list of the top 10 women I'd like to bang before I die." We're done with this clown: just read the full post below.

· $1000 Best. Roommate. Ever. [Craigslist San Francisco via Gizmodo]

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Celebrity Real Estate: Here's Where Tori Spelling's Lived For the Last Couple of Years

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, April 12, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

It's a special fortnight indeed when Tori Spelling makes two rare appearances on Curbed—first we looked at InvenTORI, her Sherman Oaks, Calif., furniture shop, and now we're peeking at the estate where the actress/reality TV star honed her decorating prowess. She and husband Dean McDermott have just listed their Encino, Calif., villa for $3.119, hoping to make a tidy li'l profit off the place they purchased for $2.495M back in 2008. The 6,700-square-foot manse has six bedrooms, 6.5 baths; decorating fanatic Spelling did the interiors herself. Shortly after moving in and changing up the decor, she told People that "[i]t's important for me to live in a beautiful space, but I also want my kids to feel they can play around," describing the overall feel as "Hollywood Regency meets eclectic antique tied together by cozy family style."

· Oh, Right, Tori Spelling Has a Furniture Shop! [Curbed National]
· Tori Spelling Selling Encion Home [Realtor.com]
· Inside Stars' Favorite Rooms [People.com]

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Dwelling: Where Martin Luther King, Jr. and Other Civil Rights Leaders Lived

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, January 17, 2011, by Sarah

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., we here at Curbed HQ decided to blog all day. We also thought it appropriate to explore his birthplace, a two-story Queen Anne-style house in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta. The residence, with front and side porches, scroll-cut woodwork trim, and two porthole windows, was where King lived from his birth, in 1929, to 1941. But what about his fellow civil-rights leaders? We take a look at some benchmark houses in American history after the jump.

? This unassuming brick house in Rochester, N.Y., is where women's-rights champion Susan B. Anthony lived from 1866 to her death, in 1906. Although it's not her birthplace (she's a Massachusetts native), it was in the front parlor, in 1872, that the U.S. Deputy Marshal arrested her for voting. She was fined $100 but never paid it.

? Civil-rights leader W.E.B Du Bois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Mass.; after much controversy, his birthplace was memorialized in 2008 by the University of Massachusetts, who owns the land. Above: the Queens, N.Y., home where Du Bois and Shirley Graham wed in 1951 and then lived until they moved to Brooklyn. As of 2008, the NAACP was fighting to get it registered as a landmarked place.

Photo: Patrick Henson/Flickr
? Shortly after her birth, a young Rosa Parks moved to her grandparents' 260-acre farm in Abbeville, Ala. In 1944, she returned to Henry County to as a representative of the NAACP to investigate rape charges brought on by a black woman.

? In March 1973, Harvey Milk and his partner, Scott Smith, moved into the second-floor apartment at 575 Castro Street in San Francisco and opened a camera shop on the ground floor. The building soon became the center of activity for an increasingly activist neighborhood; it's where Milk, the so-called "Mayor of Castro Street," developed into a local politician and pioneer for gay rights.

· Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site [National Park Service]
· Online Tours [Susan B. Anthony House]
· House where civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois lived not landmarked [NYDN]
· Harvey Milk - 30 Years Later [The Castro]

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