Archive for September, 2004
DC Baseball is Official!
It’s Official. The Expos are moving to Washington, DC for the 2005 season.
Now….anyone know anybody who wants to buy my car, so I can afford season seats?
Also, WTOP is running a contest for the best name for the new ballclub. Best name I’ve heard so far? Beltway Bandits.
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Teacher: I’m sorry I got your 3rd grader drunk at lunch.
Apparently, somebody spiked the Limeade at the Alexandria Country Day School today. In fact, it wasn’t limeade at all. It was Margaritas.
How is it that that mistake is at all possible in a school?
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A team with no name
With Major League Baseball likely to announce the decision to move the Montreal Expos to DC today, there is talk of what the DC team should be called.
They were named the Expos after Expo 67, the World’s Fair held in Montreal 2 years before the expansion team was formed, so that name is no good [...]
Getting Around: Things You Need To Know
Touron season is over, but for anyone who has recently moved to the DC area, or anyone who is considering it, I present the following helpful navigational information, which I got in an email this morning:
First, you must learn to call it by its rightful name. It is D.C., or “the District.” Only tourists call [...]
More fun with the Metro police
This time, it’s a 5 months pregnant woman talking too loudly on her cell phone.
So, I hate loud cell phone talkers as much as the next person, but you’d think that since she was leaving the station while she was making the call, and since the call had ended before the officer bothered to approach [...]
NSO Gala Opener
Last night was the Gala Opening Concert of the 74th Season of the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. What a magnificent concert last night. Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Elmar Olveira, the Labèque sisters, Michel Camilo, it was incredible. There was also the brand-new and specially commissioned piece [...]
More »Free Beer to Good Home
So, I’ve got this beer in my fridge.
“But Tiff, you don’t drink beer!” I hear you say.
Which is why I’ve got beer in my fridge. I bought two six packs when I moved into the place, because I had pledges from several friends to come help me move. Everyone but Tom and [...]
Baseball in Anacostia
The Post provides this handy graphic to show where the new baseball stadium will go in Anacostia if Major League Baseball gets off its collective ass and decides to move the Expos to DC. See the Post’s full coverage of DC baseball for more details.
There’s also talk of putting in a soccer stadium for [...]
lawn art in Arlington
Someday, I want to have a house with a yard, if for no other reason than so that I too can have an 18-foot, bare-breasted, wooden mermaid in my yard.
I need to go see this. And I need to take my camera.
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It’s like being a crossing guard AND a hall monitor.
Metro is now training selected riders to help their fellow passengers pick their way through Metro tunnels, while avoiding the high-voltage railing, in case of a Metro emergency.
It sounds lovely and all, but I’m curious about how many of these Metro riders are actually going to carry their backpack of Metro-supplied safety equipment handy?
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demon rodents
Terrorism, metro failure, politicians, tourons. As if we didn’t have enough to worry about in DC, now we also have to worry about rabid bats.
Sigh.
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MetBlog the Vote
So, we’re coming up on election season here in the DC area, and that means all manner of wacky stuff is about to befall us all. However, if you want to profit from it, do a good deed for your community, and help sponsor democracy and free elections, there’s a good opportunity to help: [...]
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