Archive for November, 2005
Corruption? in DC? You’re kidding, right?
Roughly 25% of all purchases by the District government this year were unauthorized or part of no-bid contracts. $425M out of $2.5B. This is my favorite part of the article: “We screwed up,” said Anthony F. Pompa, head of accounting for Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, when he was shown hundreds of millions of [...]
More »Two More New Cities: Dubai and Miami
Please also welcome Dubai and Miami to the Metblogs family! Miami’s having an amazing art show this week, one of the biggest in the world, and Dubai’s Farrukh and Destitute Rebel are all over the 6.1 Earthquake that happened just today. Broaden your horizons, subscribe to another Metblog today! This post appeared in its original [...]
More »Borf: I am a Monumental Retard
If you live in DC, chances are that you’ve seen Borf’s work. Chances are, though, that you’re a helluva lot smarter than him. See, if you had a court date, where you were, say, accused of stabbing someone, would you show up covered in blood? No. You would not. Borf, however, felt it necessary to [...]
More »Sweet Potato Saviour
I feel so lucky. I’m staying home in DC for Thanksgiving. No traveling for me (Phew! How did I manage that?). Judging from the amount of people I just saw at the P Street Whole Foods, I’m not the only one. Though not the grand chaos that it will be later on today, it was [...]
More »Welcome Islamabad!
Though they may be a lot further off from us than Vancouver is, please also welcome our 35th city, Islamabad in Pakistan! Part of the reason I love writing here, and working for the network, is that we’re all over the world. From LA to London, from Vancouver to Vienna, from Hawaii to Houston and [...]
More »And the Chaos Begins
For those hoping for a quick exit from DC today, good luck. A tanker truck caught on fire on I-95 between DC and Baltimore already this morning. AP reported that: Traffic was snarled around the nation’s capital early Wednesday after a tanker truck carrying 8,700 gallons of gasoline exploded on Interstate 95 on one of [...]
More »Taking the Post to New Heights
I love the Washington Post, it’s a fantastic newspaper. It’s definitive on so many issues that make it an awful lot of fun to read, simply because you don’t just learn “the news” but also what’s going on behind the news. Take a look, now, at The Post Remix (or mashingtonpost.com as they call it), [...]
More »Unsung Heroes
It’s the day before Thanksgiving (as if you didn’t know that!), a time that shouldn’t be just gut-busting consumption but also a time to gratefully reflect… so I thought I might kick it off with an ode to four unsung heroes of my day. 1) The crosswalk guard at the corner of 11th and S. [...]
More »Naked Guy Jumps From 15th St Building
If you were sitting at the security desk an saw a guy walk by without shoes on a cold day, would you ask questions? I might. The guy at the security desk at the building at 15th and K started to do just that. Except the guy ran for the elevator, made it to the [...]
More »Welcome Vancouver!
Welcome to the newest Metblog, and one of the further from us, Vancouver! Tempting indeed to go out and ski at Whistler, but for now, I’ll welcome them from afar! This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Men offering more than Butterstick viewings
While you’re surfing Craigslist for Butterstick passes, don’t forget to check out the personals. There you can find a man who will give you more than a pass for your Rosy Palms and her five sisters. We’re talking literate men who can express themselves, like this 4,000 word manifesto about your & his “jobs” in [...]
More »Aubernica
Local Wizards Blog Wizznutzz may be as crazy as their name suggests, but damned if that ain’t my kind of crazy. We’re coming up on a year after the crazy Ron Artest riot in the stands, and Wizznutzz has drawn up the awesome Aubernica remix of the Picasso classic. This post appeared in its original [...]
More »Okay, now that’s just wrong.
Apparently, the panda tickets are so valuable, they’re now being traded for sexual favors. Sadly, the original Craig’s List ad was taken down by the community, but Wonkette was already there (how’d she find the ad? I’ll leave that to your imagination…), and boy is it depraved: If you can get me a ticket to [...]
More »Victorious in war, made glorious in pub quiz.
Team Sentient Sailboats, a nod to our fine Cloudmaker guests, was victorious last night at Four Courts Pub Quiz. Though Wayan figured out how to text Google, we needed no such oracle other than LA Metblogger Jay Bushman and his rockstar girlfriend Bronwen, who lended serious aid on the film round. Despite the protests of [...]
More »Trivia Night Google Cheat Code
Say you’re at the Wonderland Ballroom on a Monday night. Its Monday Night Trivia Fight, and your team, Now + Later Alligator is down by 15-20 points. The questions are getting harder yet you are getting drunker. How can you rescue your team from dead last you think? Here is your path to salvation – [...]
More »Calling Oliver Twist
Neighborhood listserv’s can be an interesting way to learn about happenings around you. They can also be a means to find help or a job. Today’s hot job on the Adams Morgan listserv comes courtesy of “carn1fex” who asks: can anyone recommend a good honest chimney sweep around here? No word on if you need [...]
More »What’s $90 million among taxpayers?
So, when they first sold us on the new stadium for the Nationals, they said the stadium construction would cost $244 million. That’s a good chunk of change, but the city said okay. Well, now it’s $337 Million. First the land was $77.1M, now it’s $100M. Of course, how are we handling this? By cutting [...]
More »Overwhelmed by Oysters
“This is what our heaven looks like,” we murmured upon entering Oyster Riot X, greeted by rows upon rows of gleaming oysters. The gentleman in front of us turned and smiled, and nodded in mutual bliss. Heavenly it may be, but nerves of steel are required to survive the Old Ebbitt’s Oyster Riot. With 20 [...]
More »Fan Problem?
Having never been out to FedEx Field (tickets are a racket, I swear!), I can’t confirm or deny the conditions that are in this morning’s Post: One man was so wobbly by the second quarter that he toppled forward two rows, spilling beer on Leslie Weightman of Gaithersburg and digging his knee into the back [...]
More »unleashing my inner crafty goddess
As belated birthday gift, my friend Dawn wanted to take me out for… something, she didn’t know what. Lately, I’ve been feeling like I spend all my time in front of the computer or on the phone and have been sort of itching to make a physical something, so we settled on mosaics at Clay [...]
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