dc bee is rigged

No matter how you think it, I am here to tell you the truth: DC Bee is rigged.

The wanna-be ring leaders of this gig are calling out words as they like it, not randomly. What does that mean? Some kids get an easy one while others get “Shanghaied.”

All I can say is “b u l l s h i t” DC Bee and this is from the guy who knew he was dead in the pre-spell.

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…since darling girlfriend’s grandmother’s house is in the Baltimore area, not DC, but the Then And Now aspect of this shot is too much fun not to share. That wall seperates the yard from I-695, the Baltimore Beltway. The garage looks about the same but that tree sure got bigger in fifty-some-odd years, didn’t it?

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Hidden Place

Originally uploaded by tbridge.

Though today the rain kept me inside, I have found a lovely place to hide from the world. A little stretch of canopied park in Clarendon, with comfortable benches and shade from the sun, this space is my haven when I need to go offline and read, or work.

DC is full of these hidden places, monuments and parks, coffee shops and art dealers. Where’s your hidden place?

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Miller Lite @ $6.50

This is what I don’t get, what I don’t understand, and why I am not a big live-sports fan: who thought up charging $6.50 for a Miller Lite @ RFK?

Yes, I know, some people pay that and roll with it, and it keeps others from over-drinking but Miller Lite @ $6.50 does not make me want to buy two. Yet Miller Lite @ $6.50 does not keep me from getting drunk.

Miller Lite @ $6.50 makes me wanna pre-drink, getting a few Fox and Hounds’ $5.50 vodka tonics, Absolute vodka tonics no less, and then sneaking a flask into RFK.

Drunk I still was, fun I still had, and annoy others I still did, but not with $6.50 Miller Lite’s. Nope, only a cup of Coke and flask of rum – perfection on a cold night.

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photo courtesy of EasternMarket.net

Market Day means that in addition to cool vendors like yours truly and darling girlfriend selling cool Nice Mirrors, there’ll be live music and outdoor food vendors. I’m obviously biased but I think Eastern Market is fun on a normal day – the additional festivities should make it even more so.

Market Day at Eastern Market
200 and 300 block of 7th Street, SE
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

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dc taxi opportunity lost

See all there people? Many of them would like to take a taxi instead of the Metro.

After a long night at the ballgame they would be willing to drop $15 on a quick taxi to a bar or home instead of a long Metro ride.

Are there taxis to quench this need? To take my money for a service? Nope, none to be found at RFK.

And yet they circle now on 18th..

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baseball nerds unite

Say you are at a Nationals game at RFK and all around you are hotties and the game is tied at 4.

Would you be chatting up the hotties like I am or cheering the Nationals like my wingman Jeff or would you be scribbling down every single play?

Larry here is one of those baseball stat freaks who records every play. Good on him as someone should be that anal attentive.

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damn big tv

Walking into the Todd Boss Cinco de Mayo Party I was stunned. Yes, there were clock-stopping hotties a-plenty, there were bathtubs of cold beer, and there were tables of tasty eats, but that was not the show stopper.

It was Todd’s projection TV, taking up an entire wall of his basement, and rumored to be the largest TV in Arlington County, that had me slack-jawed in awe. At six feet by four feet, we were in the game, not just watching it.

Well some were watching it. After meeting Le Bron James, I am too good for TV and only went for the gratutious hottie shot in front of the screen. Still, the massive TV set the stage for the night – a party on par with his Best Turkey Day Party – Ever!

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Now, it has always seemed to me that college is the time for doing stupid things. So it causes me no consternation or offense when a famous college-age figure gets drunk and acts like a jackass in public, whether it’s the Bush daughters or Euan Blair.

But it’s worth pointing out the difference between American college kids and British college kids. When the waitress refuses to take their shit, the British kid backs down. The American kid starts a fight and the police are called.

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Everyone leaves DC eventualy. It’s something that happens, like the coming of the seasons, traffic on K St., and the sucking of the Capitals, y’know, it’s just a given. Well, my friend Joann is heading out west to be with her fiancée, and she’s doing something crazy: she’s selling her condo herself. Take a look at that sweet little place up on Connecticut.

Yeah, I know, I sound like my own little agency, but really I’m just trying to help a friend escape. We all have that escape fantasy, picking up stakes and heading for someplace less political, someplace a bit less insane. Of course, she got lucky and is heading out west to my home state of California. Of all the dames with good luck…

Take a peek at her swank pad, and tell me that’s not a deal!

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Asshole

Originally uploaded by tbridge.

Door is open,
No one home.
Blocking Traffic
On a busy thoroughfare.

The stones you have
oh, unknown truck driver
to abandon your vehicle
in the middle of traffic.

I hope
you die
in a fire.

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Interim board chair Celia May Baldwin has sent out an email to the Gallaudet community as a whole that disputes the protester claims of a biased selection and concludes by stating that the board has final say and will not be reassessing their decision. Whether this will have the slightest impact on continued brouhaha remains to be seen. If you’d like the see the letter and its details in their entirety it’s below the jump. Somehow I doubt it’s going to much placate their more extreme critics…

Baldwin and Dr. Tom Humphries, Chair of the Student Affairs Committee are supposedly enroute to Gallaudet to have a dialog with protesters and supports alike. Interested parties should be at the Elstad Auditorium at 6:00 p.m. this evening where Humphries and Baldwin will address attendees about the search and selection and then take questions from the audience.

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photo courtesy of Hugo*

I guess it’s no surprise – the players of America’s Pastime don’t really reflect the average American when it comes to salary or lifestyle, why would they reflect the aspect where 75% of us have credit cards and largely eschew cash? Jose Guillen‘s girlfriend was robbed wednesday… while leaving a check-cashing place with over $10,000 in cash.

I’d really meant to snark more about this and comment on how odd it is to me that someone living such a big money lifestyle (a $2,000 bag? That’s about the book value of the newer of my two cars…) is patronizing check cashing places, the syphilitic carbuncles of our economy that prey on those who can least afford them and whose presence are a flawless predictor of how low-wage a neighborhood is.

But the more I thought about it, though, the sadder it made me. MLB expends a ton of effort making sure to get their corporate welfare from chump politicians so they can get their stadium handouts but what are they doing for their young and vulnerable players? Where was this guy’s agent, for that matter? You’re suppose to be looking out for this guy’s career, Jerry Maguier – doesn’t that include getting him into some decent money management hands and, oh, I dunno – A BANK?

Then again, the banks are little better than those scum-sucking opportunistic lowlifes at the check cashing & usury payday loan operations. Maybe Guillen’s apparent methodology of storing his fortune in a tube sock under his mattress isn’t so unreasonable after all….

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Galileo’s chef Roberto Donna taped an episode of Iron Chef America back in January and it’s finally going to air this Sunday at 9pm. Galileo’s viewing party is sold out so you’re going to have to watch the show on the Food Network from your own home. This is actually a rematch for Roberto Donna – you can watch the first time he faced down Chef Morimoto at 8pm right before the new episode.

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Of course, by now, you’ve heard about Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s little accident over on the Hill. Of course, The Capitol Police think he was drunk, and that he reeked of alcohol when it happened, but, really, it was Ambien that made him crash his car into that pylon. Really.

Ambien.

Clearly, Rep. Kennedy has been watching an awful lot of tabloid TV.

Expect this to be on Law & Order in 3…2….1….

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laurel plaza = packed

Here is a shocking news flash for you: on a beautiful night like tonight, Laurel Plaza is packed to the limit with beautiful people.

No word if Le Bron is in the house, but even if he was, I would need a Nikon to get his respect.

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i met le bron james!

No this is not a photo of he and I for those who may not know. This is John of Intel who first realized that the Cavaliers are in the conference room next to us at the Four Seasons in Georgetown.

Le Bron is too cool for my camera phone. His direct quote: “Is that a camera phone? I don’t do camera phones.”

So tip for the stalkers, bring your big photo iron for him.

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Well, my contact at Gallaudet tells me that patience has apparently come to an end with the various folk protesting the new President’s selection – right about now the DC police are going to start arresting any student, staff or faculty member who continues to block campus entrances, claiming that blocking a federal property’s entrance is a federal offense.

Edit: Apparently this article at DeafDC Blog is the original source of this information.

Update (3:50pm) : still no arrests at this time.

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I don’t know if you have any venue that you enjoy but rarely seem to get to, but for me its Jammin Java. Something about the atmosphere and casualness appeals to me, even if it’s a little stripmall-granola, but I rarely seem to go.

You couldn’t keep me away on the 26th, though, when at 7pm both Paul and Storm (formerly of DaVinci’s Notebook) and Jonathan Coulton will be performing. They’re billed as musical comedy – and maybe that’ll be the kind of thing both will be performing – but I think they’re all three quality musicians in their own right.

Not to say both acts aren’t hysterical, though. I have a slight preference for Coulton who has songs about My People (code monkey) and Re: Your Brains (what if zombie co-workers wrote memos?). Paul And Storm’s series of movie theme song re-imaginings as if written by Randy Newman (think Toy Story’s “You’ve Got A Friend In Me”) probably don’t get any better than their take on Brokeback Mountain.

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After yesterday’s ownership press conference, and last night’s excruciating loss, today’s groundbreaking ceremony in Southeast DC completed an emotional rollercoaster for Nationals players, fans and staff. The triumph of finally receiving the news of the club’s new owner, followed the frustration of another last inning loss, followed again by the shovels of dirt this morning, it’s going to be an interesting few years for the Nationals.

Stan Kasten, part of the new ownership group, was primarily responsible for the development of the incredible Atlanta Braves farm system, which has produced a record 11 season run at the front of the National League East. Ted Lerner spoke yesterday of watching baseball in Griffith Stadium when was but a boy, and then ushering there later. These are people who believe in the sport, who understand it, and I welcome them, and this new stadium.

Sitting out at RFK in the cool of spring, watching 4 hours of 9 inning baseball, I can feel that there’s hope for this franchise, even if it’s on the horizon.

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