Archive for May, 2006
Recipe for Disaster
Nevermind that we still really don’t have a decent citywide plan for dealing with a major 9/11-sized crisis.
Ignore the fact that the District picks up most of the tab for security with regard to terrorist threats.
Completely gloss over the fact that the DC Metropolitan Police can’t even stop a group of hoods robbing tourists on [...]
More »Tiger Cubs Born at the Zoo
Apparently, the National Zoo is on fertility drugs. Between Baby Pandas, Baby Cheetahs, Baby Giraffes and all manner of other babies, the Zoo welcomed three new Sumatran Tiger Cubs last week. Like most DC families Zoo animals, the parents are split, with Soyono here in Washington and the father Rokan down in San [...]
More »Monumenting Without A Permit
When all else fails in this world, people find the most bizarre ways to protest. Hunger Strikes. Clothing Strikes. Striking Strikes. Saturday, though, one of the more bizarre protests I’ve heard of is going to take place across from the Supreme Court. Faith and Action Ministries is going to unveil [...]
More »Resist the urge…
wet and wanting
…to impint your hands, your feet, or write your name. Do not create you own walk of fame.
Do not do it. No, don’t. Its concrete, its public, it will be there for years, and you will look the fool.
Then again, who would know? Its only [...]
The Wisdom of the Manolo
Manolo the Shoeblogger (not to be confused with Manolo Blahnik) has a weekly column in the Express. Last week’s was especially full of wisdom on the topic of summer in DC:
It is not the secret that the summer in the District of the Columbia, it can be unpleasant. The humidity and the heat they [...]
More »Scientology @ Ballston
Scientology @ Ballston
Are you uptight this holiday weekend? Do pool parties and BBQ’s with Mom stress you out?
Then take heart and take the handy Scientology stress test at the Ballston Metro station.
No word if you get a free Dianetics book or if you’ll be jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch [...]
who is this?
who is this?
Who would you say this random NoVA BBQ supermodel is with those big Ray Bans: Maverick from Top Gun or better yet, that porn cop you always wanted to be arrested by?
Me, I say she is that porn cop who saunters up to the car window with a smirk [...]
Civilization comes to Shirlington
Civilization comes to Shirlington
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
South Arlington has long been a grocery wasteland, with your options being a run down Safeway, and even more run down Giant, and no good place to get groceries that you wouldn’t be scared of. Sure, the made-over Safeway on [...]
More »You might think it’s old age making your hearing go…
… but no, it’s just time for Rolling Thunder again.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Turns out, It’s DC’s Drivers That Suck
GMAC Insurance recently did a test of the knowledge of drivers in the United States and while Rhode Island took the prize for the worst drivers in the country, our own District wasn’t far behind. DC scored, on average, 76.5%, where Virginians scored 83.5%, and Marylanders scored 79.5%.
I scored slightly below my fellow Virginians [...]
More »Differing Takes in Local Reporting
With the Rayburn Office Building still locked down, and no sign of a shooter in sight, it’s very interesting to see how the local TV stations are handling the situation versus how the cable news stations are handling the situation.
At 1:22pm, NBC 4 is showing a touching flashback as part of Days of Our Lives. [...]
More »No Swimming at Virginia Beach…
I hope you weren’t planning on going swimming this weekend when you were headed out to Virginia Beach. See, higher than normal bacteria count has closed a few beaches there, and folks are recommended not to go swimming, lest they come down with a nasty, nasty, nasty infection of the lungs, skin, eyes or [...]
More »Reports of Gunfire in Rayburn Garage?
Yesterday it was Amtrak outages screwing up everyone’s lives, today it’s Gunshots Reported in the Rayburn Office Building Garage. The original alert to Hill staff was issued via email, since it appears that literally everyone on Capitol Hill are addicted to their crackberry. That message read (according to WTOP):
This is a [...]
When the going gets weird…
…the weird turn pro.
After the weekend’s raid on Congressman Jefferson’s office, and the “Separation of Powers” flap between Congress and the FBI, the President has decided to slap a 45 seal on the records that were seized from the Congressman’s office.
What exactly are the pols up in arms about? It’s not like the FBI [...]
More »Comcast Required to Carry Nats Games
This is one of those bizarre moments where I have to wonder what other solution was possible. Yesterday, Mayor Williams signed into a law a bill requiring Comcast to carry the Nationals games. I hate seeing fiats like this come from the District because it’s a bad law. But yet, Nats fans [...]
More »Bizarro High School Robbery
I don’t know why I listen to Washington Post Radio. I don’t. But it’s like a train wreck, sometimes I can’t stop. Today while I was running errands I heard a little snippet concerning this story. Nutshell version is that five kids from Whitman High School in Bethesda robbed a Smoothie [...]
More »On today’s episode of jackass patrol…
…we’ll start with this fellow, who wants to badly to sell his RAV4 that he doesn’t mind risking his life and yours by driving around with 1/3 of his windshield obscured. I used to think the “remove before driving” printed on those sunblockers you put on your windshield when parking in the [...]
More »Train Nightmares
I really hope, dear readers, that none of you were intending to take Amtrak’s Metroliner or Acela trains to New York and back today, or were planning on using the MARC rail system. This morning around 8am, Amtrak lost power along their entire DC to NY train route, causing trains to get stuck in [...]
More »Bus-Bike Lane Abuse
asshole #1
This is the Bus and Bike Lane on 7th Street NW, the one installed last year when the DC Circulating Joke started. While the Bus & Bike Lane is not without controversy, all the moaning is now moot.
A short survey of those on 7th Street headed north shows that [...]
Yea! Green Stuff in McPherson Square!
Give a cheer for these hard working National Park Service Employees! They are earning their paycheck this week, planting over 172,000 plants in area parks just in time for perfect Memorial Weekend weather. Here in McPherson Square alone, 2,700 marigolds are gonna be brightening our day soon.
Each one of those flowers will be [...]
