Archive for May, 2006
The Bridal-Industrial Complex strikes again.
I got an email today (god knows who sold my email address) advertising Betty’s Bridal Bash, which is essentially a small-scale bridal expo without the cattle-call feeling of something held at the Convention Center. It’s at the City Club of Washington at Franklin Square on May 31. I considered going just for the swank location [...]
More »Metro Calendar & Mobile Service
With all the track work and construction projects that Metro has going on this summer, wouldn’t it be nice to have that information all in one place? Well, Metro’s listening and they’ve posted a work calendar for their summer maintenance, as well as various other Metro happenings including all of the public hearings and Rider [...]
More »I know I’m not the only one who’s had this moment.
I had one of the weirdest feelings of my adult life last night. So there I was, standing in the checkout line at the ‘Teeter on Glebe, picking up the one thing Tom hadn’t gotten when he was out buying groceries that day. And I realized…. I’m standing in the checkout line by myself. And [...]
More »Ah, Parking
Warning Originally uploaded by tbridge. With the church parking situation moving no closer to a resolution than in previous weeks, this sign made me chuckle to think what would happen if neighbors went the guerrila route in the battle for parking spaces. If you haven’t been keeping up with the Logan Circle Parking Problems blog, [...]
More »MCM Registration is now open!
Jumping their own start by at least an hour, 2006 Marine Corps Marathon registration is now open. If you are hankering for a summer of blisters and boring-ass long runs, just to compete in “The People’s Marathon” be sure to be quick with your decision. Last year the registration filled up in ~60 hours, or [...]
More »Terms of Service Humor
Are you bored & looking for a funny interlude to your day? Maybe you’re even a lawyer (in DC, shocking!) and this is a Sad Wednesday. Regardless, Metroblogging DC has a dish-o-humor for you, from our very own Terms of Service. With gems like If your feel that any of the content on Metroblogging.com is [...]
More »Tag and Tagged
Tag Originally uploaded by tbridge. Though Don Whiteside is the platemeister around here, this was one that I couldn’t pass up. I was walking back from a client’s office, when I came across two women gawking at the license plate. I didn’t get it right away. It was just another temporary tag on another car. [...]
More »exposure is valuable… right?
JetBlue is out at Union station all day today, tomorrow, and Thursday looking for people who want to talk about their experience flying JetBlue, to be recorded and used for advertising purposes. Participants will not be paid, so what’s in it for you? The opportunity for Google to forever associate your name with a low-cost [...]
More »whatever they’re smoking, I want some
I don’t have much of an opinion about whether the Metro extension to Dulles Airport should involve a tunnel under Tyson’s or not, but I do have one question: In what universe does Fairfax County think it’s possible to turn Tyson’s Corner into a “walkable, quasi-urban hub?” Have the County Board members actually been to [...]
More »Cardinal McCarrick Stepping Down
Theodore, Cardinal McCarrick has had his resignation accepted by Pope Benedict and will be stepping down in late June. His successor is Archbishop Donald Wuerl, currently the Bishop of Pittsburgh, where he has served for the last 18 years. Cardinal McCarrick has been a great influence on the DC Community these last few years, and [...]
More »2006 Marine Corps Marathon
If you are one of those fools who like to run 26.2 miles at a stretch, where feet blister, backs ache, and even men put Band-Aids on their nipples so they don’t bleed, then this is the time to rejoice. Registration for the 2006 Marine Corps Marathon begins today! If you want to be one [...]
More »Supreme Court on Commuter Tax: Thanks For Playing, Here’s Your Toaster
It’s all over but the crying for the DC Commuter Tax. The Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of the group trying to tax the ever-living bejesus out of workers who live in Virginia or Maryland. Of course, all of this comes at an inopportune time for the District, who are hamstrung by [...]
More »Mr. Bubble at Super Save Market
Let’s say it was a long day, maybe one where you were playing kickball on the National Mall and then flip-cupping Grandma, and needed a good bubble bath to relax. Now say it’s already 9pm and you’re in Mt. Pleasant. Where might you find bubble bath for your long ache-ending soak at this late hour? [...]
More »Kickball Kicked Down the Mall
Now you would think that with over $1 million in revenues, several years’ practice, and now two other leagues breathing down their neck, the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) would have its act together. That they would, in their home city of Washington DC, get all the right permits to play kickball on the National [...]
More »The Show That Made DC Cool
7 years and countless episodes, The West Wing comes to an end tonight. When I moved to DC in 2000, this show was in its second season. I was working a job that only someone fresh out of college would take, after I’d watched the dot-conomy destruct and take my stock options with it. Living [...]
More »DC Peta Protest
DC peta protest 02 Originally uploaded by DrBrian. Thanks to Flickr User DrBrian for this great shot of four topless women and one guy in a speedo. PETA was out protesting at the Australian Embassy this weekend, protesting an Australian Sheep Shearing Practice called Mulesing. I’m not entirely convinced that five mostly naked people and [...]
More »Bad Weekend for Metro
With the track work continuing between Stadium Armory and Addison Road/Seat Pleasant, forcing trains down to one track for that section of the Blue Line, and the earlier Red Line tragedy that claimed a life of a maintenance worker, Metro is a shambles of its normal self today Currently, Dupont Circle and Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan [...]
More »dc metblog beats channel 4 news
dc metblog beats channel 4 Here is Mike Flinn of Channel 4 interviewing Mr. Britton, the British tourist who saw the actual train accident. Yours truly already got the scoop from Mr. Britton (his real name) and your reading this way before the 6 o’clock news. Channel 4 did stick around to learn the worker [...]
More »metro worker hit
metro worker hit The Red Line Southbound is closed at Dupont Circle. Fire truck radio and British tourists say a worker was hit just as the train was leaving the station. Metro has closed the turnstiles but gawkers can still take the escalators down to look. Update: Channel 4 reports the worker was killed in [...]
More »Neighborhood Day
Santiago Caporales 2 Originally uploaded by tbridge. It’s Neighborhood Day in Arlington, today, featuring a parade through Clarendon and Courthouse and showing off all manner of community achievements. The theme for this year’s event was “Many Neighbors, One Community,” and the parade featured all the diversity of the DC area, from Drum and Fife Corps, [...]
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