Archive for February, 2006
Corcoran Misfire
I couldn’t get into the city early enough to make the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran opening in Georgetown for “Wall Snatchers.” I did go in for the 9:30 post-opening event described thusly. 9:30 pm TONIGHT (February 23, after Opening Reception) – Projection artist fi5e will be projecting his “graffiti analysis” interactive video at the [...]
More »Movies for Sailors
Just got this in my email and wanted to share it with you all- it comes just as Tom and I are clearing out the duplicates as we merge our media collections. After all, just how many copies of The Matrix does one geek couple need? I bet you guys have some DVDs hanging around [...]
More »Blog-tech meetup tonight for Drupal users
If you don’t know what it is… then the odds are slim you’ll care to learn. If you’re a blogger or content manager who works with Drupal or might want to, however, this might be worth your while. We’re moveable type folks here at Metblogs, but professionally I work with Drupal quite a bit. I [...]
More »So, it’s 5 o’clock on a Thursday. Whatcha doin’ tonight?
Well, if I were in DC, I might well be heading to DCist’s Unbuckled featuring The Hard Tomorrows, and Olivia Mancini & the Housemates, and DJ Leafblower. Tickets are only $6, and frankly, that’s way cheaper than going to a first run movie, and likely a helluva lot more entertaining. Get thee to DC9, which [...]
More »Montgomery County Sues To Get You The Good Drugs
Montgomery County is now suing the FDA to allow its residents to reimport drugs from Canada, cheaply. See, back in Ought Four, the County Council passed a resolution requesting that the county implement such a program, but after the FDA put the kibosh on doing it legally, Doug Duncan caved under the pressure of having [...]
More »More street-art talk
It seems to be graffiti day here at Metblogs so who am I to resist? I found the website Pretty City some time ago and hadn’t gotten around to bringing it to your attention before now, but I look forward to a firestorm of disagreement about it. Pretty City would probably fall into the pro-Borf [...]
More »MBA World Tour in DC
So you tired of your job? Thinking you want a change. Better yet, a change that will make you good money? Well look no farther than the Official World MBA Tour! The Tour provides an outstanding opportunity for wage slaves candidates to dream about research business schools and make informed education and career choices, whilst [...]
More »Supporting the Danes
So, I know this cartoon stuff has gotten just bizarre, and that rioting and violence seem to be all the rage among the extremist population, but what about supporting Denmark? Slate Columnist Christopher Hitchens is putting together a Denmark Support Event at the embassy on Mass Ave this Friday at noon. If you have the [...]
More »Hey Cabbie, Why Dontcha Shut It?
You know how this one goes, I assure you. Get in cab, tell the cabbie where you’re going, say a little prayer, and hope to God he’s not on his phone. Now Marc Fisher says that in Montgomery County, Barwood Cab is banning cellphone use by their cabbies during rides. Ayyyyy-men. I wish, wish, wish [...]
More »Perfume Attack
Like many a long-term DC resident, I have obnoxious seasonal allergies. I try hard not to whine all the time about it, but occasionally I succumb to some self-pity, like today when I went for a spot of lunchtime shopping to escape Dreary Day Syndrome. Once upon a time, cosmetics salespeople sprayed you without warning [...]
More »The Nats Blog is Back!
Ask, and ye shall receive! Nationals Journal is back in action. Sadly, Barry Svrluga isn’t down in Viera yet, he’s in Turin, the lucky bastard, so daily reports from Panera Bread are highly unlikely. Matt Lee, though, is doing a bangup job. No word if he’ll become a Panera addict, too. This post appeared in [...]
More »Ah, the moments of Zen
Sometimes, just sometimes, moments in national politics are too good to ignore. Scott McClellan and David Gregory have had a spat this week, and of course, it’s definitely someone’s job to spoof it all in a way that only popular culture would do: turn it into an Oscar contending movie about gay cowboys in Wyoming. [...]
More »A new name for the Nats?
Well, this one’s just so bizarre it hurts. The Nationals’ name may be a trademark violation. See, Bygone Sports claims the Nationals name is theirs. MLB says, “um, dude, we talked about this. We had a deal.” Bygone Sports says, “We never settled on final terms. You told me we could talk about ponies.” The [...]
More »Ah, Pub Quiz, Great Equalizer
Awesome shirt Originally uploaded by tbridge. Tonight, Tiffany and I, and our friends Lisa and Ian, headed for the Four Courts to have a little Pub Quiz action. Usually, we finished in the top ten, so it’s a good time, and who can beat a half price burger before 7pm? No one. That’s who. So, [...]
More »It Might’ve Been a Holiday, But…
Sure, it’s Presidents’ Day, but that didn’t stop the DC-Based Council of Foundations from meeting about all the hullaballoo surrounding the Getty Trust, which is accused of some serious malfeasance in land deals and a few other matters. In the art world, this is the equivalent of near death. Should the Council of Foundations find [...]
More »Just Can’t Get Enough
February is the month of Aquarii and Pisceans, of eccentrics and artists, madness and frivolity. So why not celebrate with some of the best February babies out there and let your inner demons roar? This Wednesday, February 22 the divine DJ Medusa and the ultra-fashionable DJ Strange are having an all-Depeche Mode night at the [...]
More »Post Columnist: You Don’t Need Algebra, Just Accept You’re Stupid
Every once in a while someone in this town will say something so monumentally stupid that it takes a few days of staring at it to make any sense of it whatsoever, and Richard Cohen’s column last Thursday is one of them. In his column he asserts that no one really ever needs Algebra, it’s [...]
More »Redesign!
Hey everyone, welcome to the brand spanking new Metroblogging DC. As you can tell, things are fairly different around here. Thanks to hard work from Jason Defillippo and Sean Bonner, we have this beautiful new look. Over the next few hours, we’re rolling it out to all 42 cities in the Metroblogging network. You can [...]
More »Fireman’s Brawl
Man. Imagine calling 911 when your house is on fire, and having two brigades show up to put out the fire, only to get involved in a serious brawl, causing first and second degree burns. There just aren’t words for things like this. Nothing like a good fireman’s brawl… This post appeared in its original [...]
More »Wait, it’s a holiday tomorrow?
I work for one of those crazy businesses in DC that doesn’t follow the Federal Government holiday schedule, so I will be slaving away downtown. However, if you’re free tomorrow, there’s a parade in Alexandria, and also a celebration at Mount Vernon complete with…hoecakes? Hoecakes? What’s a hoecake? Well, it’s a cornmeal cake that’s baked [...]
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