Archive for October, 2005
Why Do They Empower These Guys?
When WHFS went off the air suddenly last year, the city lost a good radio station, but there was one thing that made me happy: The Junkies went off the air. Four guys who clearly haven’t left college mentally, and are stuck in some sort of bizarro Peter Pan situation. Unable to grow [...]
More »Condescension: At The Bus Stop
At the Bus Stop
Originally uploaded by natalyam.
There’s nothing like seeing something like this on flickr to make you wonder about this city. Whether the people who “understand” the civil divide can be more of an asshole, I’m not really all that sure, but I can say [...]
More »Sleepy Sunday at Tallula
If it’s true that American wine consumption is on the rise, then Tallula is certainly the place to inbibe. But those prime midweek to weekend nights can be seriously hot. Ever since the old Whitey’s space re-opened as a swankly decorated wine bar/restaurant with an inventive menu, getting a table can be tough, but worth [...]
More »Congressional Cemetery Adventure
Despite the horrid weather today, some of my friends and I headed out to Congressional Cemetery for a good game of Tombstone Poker. It seems odd to say I spent all day in a graveyard, looking at stone after stone that date back some 200 plus years, including John Philip Sousa, Mathew Brady, and [...]
More »Chill Clarendon
After watching vampires suck down blood for two hours, we needed some libations ourselves! I?m not really familiar with Rosslyn, where we were for the “Dracula” performance, but luckily I was with friends last night who are Arlingtonians, so it was off to Clarendon to the Eleventh Street Lounge.
The bouncer could stand a bit [...]
The Ghost of Lafayette Square
What a dreary, grey and gloomy day…
The perfect day to get spooked up proper for Halloween!
Yes, I continue to seek out scary goings-on in the days leading up to October 31st. Washington is supposedly a very haunted city, and Decatur House has the reputation for being one of the most haunted houses around. (Well, [...]
Escape to Cape May – Part Two
As we were trying to keep the trip low-key, I hadn
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Escape to Cape May – Part One
Life in DC sometimes means taking a break from it all and heading out on a long weekend. Usually we fly out to another city or travel out of the country all together, but in the interests of exploring the (relatively) immediate vicinity and keeping it low-key, for last weekend
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FSM on Metro
FSM on Metro
Originally uploaded by brownpau.
Who knew that Pastafarians had made such inroads into DC’s own subwayculture? Well, apparently Flickr photographer Brownpau does. The lovely orange seat on this Metro car now bears the sign of his noodly appendage!
Though, I’m sure this is just ironic [...]
A Pretentious PLAY
PLAY is a new bar two doors down from Lucky Bar on Connecticut Avenue. Thing is PLAY isn’t so lucky, “pretentious” is more the word. We’re talking NYC pretentious where the bouncer makes you wait so he can check the guy/girl ratio and then chides me for not wearing a jacket over my [...]
More »Come Join Us
We’ve had a few authors depart for greener pastures early this Fall, and while we’ll miss them terribly, we’re hopeful that we can find new writers to come join our merry band. Are you interested in writing for us at least times a week? Do you love this city (or hate it to [...]
More »Sen. Gregg Wins the Powerball
I didn’t win the Powerball yesterday, which is a huge bummer, but someone in DC is taking home some $850,000: New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. He got five of the six numbers correct and split the 2nd prize with 48 others. You may remember him from when his wife got kidnapped by some [...]
More »“Police Activity”
“Police Activity” has closed 15th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House/Treasury and the Commerce Department. More info as it comes.
I really have come to hate that phrase, “police activity” can be so many things, but it’s designed to cause fear and “trust in authority,” of which I have little left [...]
Metroblogging DC presents… Real Men of Genius
Today we salute you, Mr. Bouncing-Hydraulics-Open-Laptop-with-Diplomatic-Plates Guy!
Most people abandoned the hoopty in the late-90s from whence they came. But not you. Your aging black caddy bounced at the light at Bank & M Streets as you plunked away on your laptop, nestled next to you in the middle of the leather bench seat. [...]
Showdown
Metro’s open late tonight, so booze it up, courtesy of the Maryland-V.Tech football game. Of course, it doesn’t look too good for the Terps, as they play against the number three ranked Hokies tonight, so please, just promise me this, when you lose, don’t burn down College Park, mmkay? And, if on the [...]
More »Ghoulish Real Estate
Just in time for Halloween, the Post is reporting on a story about a real estate investor finding a man’s skeleton in the tub of a house he purchased at auction. Creepy, and sad.
It reminds me of a story a few years back about a DC couple who found a suitcase in [...]
Powerball Madness
At about 2:30pm I started getting the most insane craving for Cafe Phillips’ tuna salad, so I finally gave in and just walked down to the 12th & E location to beg the nice lady cleaning up the lunch selections to please pretty please dig some out for me.
Next door at Washington Wine & Liquor [...]
McMansion Prevention?
While I thoroughly loathe the term McMansion, I can understand the angst they cause as people buy smaller homes on medium-sized lots and rebuild or renovate to make the dwelling bigger, faster, stronger, better because that’s the american way dammit. But, Montgomery County is doing something that other folks aren’t: putting Height Limits on [...]
More »Two Racks of Racks
I went out to get my Powerball ticket today, it was off to the little convenience store on 12th street a block from office. The line was epic, winding around the candy tower, and right past the dirty magazine racks. I had honestly no idea there were THAT many porno mags. Seriously. [...]
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