Nancy Nall:
There’s more to Jackie Siegel than her cheese balls.
A silly smile. Eight kids. A 25,000 square foot house. And one at 90,000 the recession destroyed.
Her husband was asked if he gains strength from his marriage.
“No, she’s a child.”
He says when she’s 60 he’ll trade her in for three 20 year olds.
Hence the cheese balls, why she seeks his approval.
She loved the money but has a love for life he doesn’t. She has more heart than him.
She loves to serve them up in strapless… styles, like cheese balls.Had to watch it.
There’s more to Jackie Siegel than her cheese balls.
A silly smile. Eight kids. A 25,000 square foot house. And one at 90,000 the recession destroyed.
Her husband was asked if he gains strength from his marriage.
“No, she’s a child.”
He says when she’s 60 he’ll trade her in for three 20 year olds.
Hence the cheese balls, why she seeks his approval.
She loved the money but has a love for life he doesn’t. She has more heart than him.
What a remarkably ugly house. Money can't buy taste.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 01:57 PM
The 25,000 sf one or the 90,000 one?
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 02:16 PM
the smaller one. The bigger one wasn't finished. I have no doubt it would have been even uglier. TRUMP-level ugly.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 02:25 PM
It was all very Trump-esque.
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 02:30 PM
I had a boss who got very wealthy in the early 90s (I figure I personally put about 7 million in his khaki pockets, but I'm not bitter). He built a 14,000 house just south of Silicon Valley. It was actually pretty cool, with a state of the art central sound system, lots of custom painted murals on the walls and even a secret room for the kids to play in behind a built-in bookshelf. But I used to wander around in there thinking the very SIZE of the thing made it a monstrosity. I was uncomfortable with the weird mis-match of scale - human habitation should be human sized, and you can spend a great deal of money building a 3500 foot house just the way you want it and that's about as big as you can ever imagine a dwelling should be...
Posted by: mikey | January 08, 2013 at 04:23 PM
I can't imagine what you COULD do with 90,000 SF. The last building I did of that scale ended up being 34 loft apartments; BIG ones, too.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 04:47 PM
and even a secret room for the kids to play in behind a built-in bookshelf.
I want one!
I was uncomfortable with the weird mis-match of scale - human habitation should be human sized
I think it's just that you can get very used to whatever size place you are living in. It might feel HUGE when you first move in and then after awhile, it just becomes normal.
There's a "side story" in the documentary about one of their children -- she was the daughter of the wife's brother, he and she were estranged and her biological mother had died, so the Siegel's adopted her. She was very poor in her previous life and now was part of a fairy tale rich life. Ongoing throughout the doc, she talks about it, and says how she's become used to it, and now it's weird that she just always wants more.
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 05:02 PM
34 loft apartments
I want one!
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 05:04 PM
So many different things I couldn't written about this doc, but I ONLY HAD 100 WORDS.
David Siegel, the husband, claims to be *personally responsible* for getting GWB elected. He was asked how. He said, "I don't want to answer that. There could have been illegal things."
Really? You don't say.
Not sure if the guy truly had a hand in it, or if his overly inflated ego allows him to believe it.
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 05:08 PM
you doing the 50-100-50 thing again, are you?
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 05:39 PM
Yeah, wanna join in?
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 05:50 PM
HAH
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 07:00 PM
I signed up for the 5 words and a picture deal.
~
Posted by: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© | January 08, 2013 at 07:43 PM
well, it seems nobody wants me on the Robotics team, so I should have lots of time to blog again.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 08:12 PM
a Picture Deal? Sounds Hollywood!
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 08:13 PM
HAH
Drop and give me another 99.
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 08:24 PM
thunder, Cool! Maybe I could possibly write a 100 word post related to one of your 5 words and picture deals!
Posted by: blue girl | January 08, 2013 at 08:26 PM
Imma go the other direction. I am leaving every post up until it gets 100 comments.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 08:48 PM
ten kitchens? TEN KITCHENS??!?!?!?!?
Dammit, that's IT. These people need to go away a lot. I am starting on a guillotine right now.
5 million dollars of marble. Sheesh.
Nice to see he can chuckle about the Iraq war though. Some people are awful.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 08, 2013 at 11:01 PM
preach ZRM
Posted by: Kathleen | January 09, 2013 at 01:27 AM
5 million dollars of marble.
I tried to keep that in my post. 5 words too many!! Maybe thunder can use it in one of his.
I changed it to $5,000,000,000. One word too many.
Hi Kathleen!!
Posted by: blue girl | January 09, 2013 at 07:36 AM
Maybe thunder can use it in one of his.
Only if he can blame it on Obama.
Posted by: zombie rotten mcdonald | January 09, 2013 at 10:19 AM