Archive for December, 2005
Relaxation
Tree and Monument 2 Originally uploaded by tjbax. You know what the best part of Christmas is? Being done with all your shopping, wrapping, and shipping a week early. We’re celebrating with egg nog. Have fun at the mall, suckers. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. [...]
More »Pageant of Peace
Pageant of Peace.jpg Originally uploaded by tbridge. Tiffany and I went down to the Ellipse tonight to see the National Christmas Tree and the rest of the Pageant of Peace. I brought along my camera and a tripod and I got some awesome shots of the pageant despite the darkness. If you have a chance, [...]
More »Six Apart Meltdown Halts Post Blogs
If you were looking for Froomkin’s White House Briefing, or the Going Out Gurus Blog today, or any of the Post’s other blogs, you likely found yourself looking at something from last week. The Post hosts their weblogs with Six Apart as part of the TypePad service, and sadly their servers lobotomized themselves early this [...]
More »Here’s a forward-thinking business
Well, forward thinking in a bad way. Most fences sell stolen merchandise that has already been stolen. Sultan Ferozi was allegedly selling merchandise that hadn’t been stolen yet. Allegedly he’d run ebay auctions and then go steal the things he needed to fill the orders. I’m somewhat impressed, though surprised. Most people in our area [...]
More »How about a suit in a month… or two?
Wayan wrote yesterday about the experience of finding a suit in a day and I uniformly loathe him for it. Or rather, for being able to do it. Okay, I loathe him a little for shopping for ‘slim fit’ too, but my appearance of being in my 5th month of pregnancy is something I could [...]
More »Striking Dancers
As I left work last night, and stood on the corner of 13th and F, I heard the sound of a brass quintet, playing in the rain. I turned down toward the Warner, and listened as they finished the end of Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming. As I listened to the final notes ring [...]
More »Technical Difficulties
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More »Cranky Frank Back For One More Year
Frank Robinson’s back for one more season with the Nats. Sure, he’s cantankerous, doesn’t like the playing of cards or loud music in the clubhouse, and he sits the young guys in favor of decrepit veterans, but at least he puts on a good show when he gets fired up. Good Luck Frank, you’re our [...]
More »starts with C
By the way, the chocolate shortbread cookies at Teaism have brought my life new meaning. And the Salty Oat cookies are pretty good too. Just sayin’. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Enjoy that Wintry Mix!
So while y’all watch the snow switch to rain and the red lights multiply on the roads as rush hour kicks in, I’ll not be feeling your pain on this side of the world. I’m kicking it back in the rooftop pool at my hotel, Almaza beer in hand, skyline of Beirut below. Nice eh? [...]
More »Montgomery County Impound Lot Burns
If you had your car impounded in Montgomery County yesterday, it’s entirely possible it’s a charred hunk of metal at this point. Apparently it destroyed roughly $400,000 in property, including 39 cars within the walls of the facility itself. Yeesh. Talk about insult to injury, having your car towed, THEN destroyed by the county. Ouch. [...]
More »Where do you buy a suit in a day?
Well, where would you? Say you’re told that you’ll be heading to Lebanon in three days and you know your 5+ year old suits from Sweden, back when you were a smidgen heavier and way less fashionable, are not going to cut it in the Paris of the Middle East. Where do you go or [...]
More »portable tour guide. With a click wheel
Tom and I had kicked around the idea for a long time of putting together a sort of podcasted walking-tour of DC and just haven’t gotten around to planning a good one, figuring out logistics, etc. But the folks at Slate, which is based in DC, have put together an mp3 guide to the National [...]
More »Ever Wonder What’s In a SmarTrip Card?
I sure do, and DCist Tom Lee (we like to think of him in the first person, even if his corporate borg overlords don’t…) took one apart in an effort to get the SmarTrip chip to work in other settings and he’s got it so that instead of a card in your wallet or pocket, [...]
More »Jenna in Trouble Again?
Radar seems to think so: According to a source who has seen the footage—which features a self-described downtown coke dealer relating his late-night run-in with the First Daughter, and brandishing her college ID as a souvenir—the man insinuates that the two shared more than just drinks. A well-informed source, who has a DVD copy of [...]
More »Do you hoard peanuts & bubble wrap?
Do you? You know if you do. You hear that soothing wondrous “pop!” we all love, when a bubble wrap bubble dies, and you freak out. You’re the one with little Styrofoam bits on your clothes, little ones jumping on you from your piles in boxes under your desk. You’re the one never to send [...]
More »Marion Barry in a fake Nats hat?
If this is true, that’s pretty low: What I found most interesting, and this should tell you how much I care about these dog and pony shows, is this picture Miss Chatter pulled off the ol’ tube. It shows the esteemed former mayor wearing a Nats cap to show his support for baseball in DC. [...]
More »Trifecta in Play
Thanks much to commenter BAV for pointing out that not only did Borf plead guilty today, so did the cell phone bandit. That puts the trifecta in play. Does Scooter plead guilty tomorrow? Jack Abramoff? Who completes this odd trinity? This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. [...]
More »And in other news…
…Santa just went through Fairlington on a fire truck. How did I not know about this?! How could my camera be nowhere to be seen! There he was, waving, atop the ladder truck based over on Abingdon St., shouting to all who would hear as the lights flashed, “Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!” And like [...]
More »You an American?
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