Archive for October, 2005
Holy Crap Steve Case Resigned
Holy crap, Steve Case Resigned from AOL today. He’s the co-founder of America Online, the world’s most despised ISP (sorry Narni), and worth about sixty bajillion dollars, but he’s no longer working there. Folks, this is the end of an era, and an interesting day for DC-based AOL, perhaps this means they’ll find [...]
More »Gaming Seriousity
DC is playing host to the Serious Games Summit this week, which features discussion of “work” gaming, or in their jargon “non-entertainment gaming” including applications for healthcare, military uses, etc. Water Cooler Games is blogging the conference including this morning’s keynote about the art and science of Game Design. Looks like a spiffy [...]
More »So much trivia, it’s spooky
Monday pub quiz at Four Courts in Arlington goes on as usual on Halloween, except that they encourage you to dress up and will be giving extra prizes for the best costume.
Maybe you could dress up as James Joyce, the Irish writer who seems to be an answer in the picture round Every. [...]
Charity + Shopping = Holiday Cheer
Via DC Lagniappe: Now is a great time to start your holiday shopping- the Care for Kids discount card is valid this week through November 6. For $50, you get a card that gets you a 20% discount at all sorts of area retailers. All proceeds from the sale of the cards [...]
More »Party Hard but Safe
As in years past, this Halloween weekend you’ll have the opportunity to party safely with a free taxi ride home thanks to WRAP. The Washington Regional Alcohol Program is sponsoring SoberRide. Running 8pm to 4am Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, you can take advantage of this service and party to your heart’s content (and your liver’s [...]
More »Weekend in Hell
Hopefully by now you’re figured out a costume, I gave you plenty of warning, but have you figured out your party location? I’m still doing a bit of a last-minute party shuffle, balancing proximity to home with expected talent levels with an inebriation variable that’s expected to be high.
While I was thinking house party, [...]
Banner Day in DC
At 2pm, Patrick Fitzgerald indicted Scooter Libby on 5 charges including obstruction of justice and perjury.
At 3pm, Mayor For Life Marion Barry goes before the magistrate on charges of tax evasion.
There’s a word for this feeling I’ve got, I think it’s schadenfreude.
Only in DC.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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What’s this DC Text Alert about?
What’s going on in my hood!?!? SWAT team? That sounds serious!
Message from Alert DC
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:27:35
Police barricade at 1791 Lanier Pl., NW.
18th St. & Columbia Rd. NW has been blocked off.
SWAT en route.
Anybody got info? Damn, I wish Google’s Spy Eye in the Sky was real-time!
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PandaWear
Sure, Tai Shan is his real name, but to us he’s known as Butterstick, thanks to Tom & Catherine over at DCist. Sure, they’ll claim “editorial we” status and credit the site as a whole, but I’m not afraid to single out genius when I see it. Anyhow, if you want a sweet [...]
More »Fairfax Judge Going Case-Tossing Crazy
Well, we’re back to the drinking and driving issue, but this time we’re headed to nearby Fairfax County, VA, where a judge there is throwing out DWI cases because of a presumption of guilt going into the trial. Virginia law says that driving are intoxicated if they test higher than .08 BAC, and that [...]
More »Royal Influx
Get ready for a royal invasion (or at least, all the traffic and security hooha that goes along with it)!
Charles and Camilla, a.k.a. HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, will be in DC next week for a few days starting Wednesday. There’ll be a big to-do for them at the [...]
Winter is here
Stop procrastinating. You know what you wanna do, what you need to sdo, what you don’t care to do. Its time to switch into winter gear.
I gave in tonight myself. I finally went winter clothes shopping (where are you Kalikya Stockman?!) for hats, gloves, scarves and the like. Not want I [...]
Review: Sugar Rush
Warren Brown’s new Food Network show premiered tonight, and included a trip to Duff Goldman’s Charm City Cakes in Baltimore. They made a that was centered around a piece of either strong PVC or some painted metal conduit, and shaped like a cannon. So, yeah, part cake, part fire-arm! But it’s nice [...]
More »Civil Rights Unrest at Glen Echo – 1960
With the passing of Rosa Parks, now seems like a good time to revisit a local episode in the history of civil rights that didn’t involve a march on the Mall.
So I was out at Glen Echo Park again yesterday, and while I was there, I picked up a card with an interesting looking photo [...]
So whatcha going as?
Yeah you, what are you gonna be on Saturday? You better have an idea by now as you don’t have much time left. By tomorrow, there will be no supplies left for witches or mummies, and nurses and devils will be hurting too.
Creative costumes and easy ones will be all that’s left. [...]
Sugar Rush Debuts Tomorrow
Sugar Rush with local baker extraordinaire debuts on the Food Network at 9:30pm tomorrow night. He’s making Chocolate Raspberry Parfaits which sound so very phenomenally delicious I might just go into a diabetic coma watching the show tomorrow night. Of course, I could just go over to Cake Love and get myself some [...]
More »Run For The Hills!
Sweet Baby Jesus, what is that blue thing west of us?! Bad enough the green appears to have taken over the greater DC area for the day, but blue stuff too?! The Apocalypse is coming! Snow in October! Help me Jebus! Much like Wayan, I am a summer person, and [...]
More »Washington Possessed
Considering it’s now seven days til All Hallow’s Eve (if you’re partying Saturday instead, it’s only five!), I thought I’d continue to do my part to freak you all out by telling a classic Wasington ghost story. Apart from President Lincoln’s haunting the White House, there is possibly no more famous local ghost story than [...]
More »She killed her a bar, when she was only eight!
Well, the first bear of the season is dead, felled at the hands of 8 year old Sierra Stiles, who won the local bear-hunting license lottery. Of course, this has animal rights’ groups all kinds of freaked out, which is what I find amusing. She’s getting the bear stuffed, if you were interested.
This [...]
Oh To Be A Corrupt Academic
When I come back in my next life, I want to come back as a corrupt academic in a University President’s job. What a sweet gig that is. Benny Ladner, in addition to getting to keep the stuff he used University funds to pay for, gets over $3 million in severance. Wow. [...]
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