Archive for August, 2004
Baseball’s Best Bet
This morning’s Washington Post has the results of a new poll that say DC is better than Northern Virginia for a new baseball team. To me, this is like saying “Sun rises in the East again” or “water is, in fact, wet.” For a season and change I commuted to Baltimore after work, [...]
More »Applause for the fat guy walkin’….
Looking for something last-minute to do tonight? Ralphie May is doing two shows tonight at the DC Improv, at 8 PM and 10:30 PM. Some $17 tickets are still available. You’ll remember Ralphie as the big guy who was almost last season’s Last Comic Standing on NBC.
And if you go to the [...]
DC is the Worst Place to Die.
Forbes has a new article out right now comparing states on what happens when you die. Good Lord, how morbid. However, it’s important to realize that DC is Dead Last, pardon the pun. What makes it so bad to die in DC? Well, what makes it so bad to live here? [...]
More »Today in local news….
DC is finally going to get to work with the Feds to reduce the number of checkpoints and get traffic flowing again in DC. Pretty please?
Metro may not be able to keep its escalators working, and it may not be able to keep the trains running after a few days of rain, its station [...]
Maryland Driver, License Plate MDZ-716
This morning on my ride to work, some asshat in a Black Nissan Maxima came up the Glebe Rd. ramp and immediately cut us off. No Signal. No Warning. Just BAM, right in our lane, missing the front bumper by about half a short and curly hair. Tiff applied the horn, [...]
More »Burritos and Car Bombs
That’s right peeps, your favorite Spunky Burrito Joint is opening up a new location in Courthouse. California Tortilla, or as it’s affectionately known, The Tilla, is opening up a Courthouse location over in Arlington, right next door to the Four Courts. So here’s the plan: next Wednesday they’re having free burritos from 6-8pm, [...]
More »Go slow in Falls Church
Falls Church police officers are expected to meet high ticket quotas in order to maintain favorable performance ratings.
No wonder the speed limit on Route 7 is so low….
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Screwing over the twentysomethings
Like all of you, I regularly lament just how expensive housing is in this area. I note that the boom is due, at least in part, to the expansion of the federal government.
But here’s something I didn’t realize- Local governments are also purposely continuing the housing shortage.
Thank you, local governments, for screwing over people [...]
Yet Another Metro Post
The Red Line passengers are mad as hell, but there’s no sign of when Metro will get it’s head out of its ass.
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I knew it was not just me!
Hah! My sense of direction may suck, but here it is, independent verification that DC is the second least navigable city in America!
So there will be no more making fun of my ability to get monumentally lost.
Okay, well, maybe just a little.
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Abandon Ship!
Though I’m still stuck in Texas, I thought this was worth posting: A Metro Driver Abandoned His Train. This is so completely bizarre, I hardly even know where to begin. What the hell was the train operator thinking? What was the dispatcher thinking?
Wacky.
Am I surprised?
Nah, it’s Metro. Any amount of incompetence [...]
Orange Alert!
Of course, as soon as I leave town, all the fun begins. Apparently, hippies protestors from wealthy families aren’t the only people who hate the World Bank and IMF. Here’s hoping nothing happens, and this all just blows over. Be safe everyone.
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