Archive for June, 2006
One of us! One of us!
I swore for the longest time that I wouldn’t get one. Didn’t want to be that accessible. Didn’t want to be “that guy” at the poker table. Didn’t want to have to answer email in traffic. I had myriad reasons not to get one of these little things. Yet, here I sit, tapping away on [...]
More »Roller Derby, Baby!
That’s right, it’s an epic battle of foes, on skates. Who knew that DC had their own Rollergirls? I know I didn’t, not before today anyway. Thanks to our friends in the know, though, check out these skatin’ ladies! We’re hoping that the Rollergirls will return our email, because damn if hot chicks on skates [...]
More »Doug Duncan Bows Out
Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan is bowing out of the Governor’s Race, citing chronic depression that’s been recently diagnosed. The matchup for the fall will be Bob Ehrlich, fresh off his acting role in the new “Leave Early, Stay Late, Get an EZ-Pass, goddammit” ad campaign from the Eastern Shore, versus Baltimore Mayor “No, really, [...]
More »Svrluga 1, WaPo Chat 0
It’s that time of the week again, when the Post’s Barry Svrluga (said sver-loo-ga) takes questions from the masses. These chats often make for some funny moments, and today’s chat was no disappointment. Today’s Highlight? Priceless… Washington, D.C.: What a great time to be a Nationals fan! Zimmerman making a run at rookie of the [...]
More »Hitting it on the Head
A while back, I hailed Jon Stewart a hero for berating Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala live on CNN, which ended with Crossfire being cancelled. Today, I hail Ze Frank. Normally, I have a dislike for podcasting and vlogging, simply because you’re suddenly on the author’s timetable for material, their speech pattern, their interpolated graphics, [...]
More »Beer + Poor Timing == Sad Don
It’s not really any consolation that I’m not the only one under water, or that this hell is one of my own making. The real pain, however, is that while I’m up in Philly shilling my wares at the Manayunk Art Festival one of my favorite events of the year will be going on here [...]
More »Car + Bus + Rush Hour = Lame
Ever since my darling wife taught me to take Memorial Bridge into DC instead of 395, I have been grateful. Aside from some backups getting onto Route 50 itself, the whole thing is fairly painless, and I’ll definitely take one long zipper merge to the godawful hell that is 395 during morning rush. Well, most [...]
More »What is WITH these people?
What is it with people in the elevator in my building? First there was the guy who made a crack about the jewelry store bag I was carrying, and when I explained that it held our wedding rings, said that June 11th is a great day to get married- his father died on that date. [...]
More »Ahhh Yes, Return of the Giant Rat
There are few things quite as peculiar about working downtown than the giant inflatable rat that a few of the unions use to protest places of employment in DC. You can’t miss it, it’s at least two stories tall, is shaped like a rat, and has been in front of a few buildings this spring/summer [...]
More »“I’m free!” (almost)
“Whatever happened to Jenn,” you muse, perusing these pages in vain, “One minute she was slurping down mussels preparing for a Parisian adventure, the next she’s MIA, some 29 days since. What gives?” Well, dear readers, contrary to desire, I did not get whisked away by some Gallic patron to a Loire chateau. No, I [...]
More »Knitting for Our Neighbors
Generally I try not to shamlessly recycle DailyCandy’s content, but this one is too good to pass up: Through Knitting for Our Neighbors — the new weekly knitting classes run by Food & Friends, which donates every sock, scarf, and sweater made to those living with HIV/AIDS and other grave illnesses — that’s how. The [...]
More »New Metering Options from Pepco
With power prices starting to rise, isn’t it nice to think that maybe the power companies aren’t entirely soul-sucking profiteers? Today Pepco announced a new program that will put “smart meters” into over 2,000 DC homes, and about half of those folks will get a brand new smart thermostat that will display the power rates [...]
More »Work for the District? Your Identity May Be Stolen.
If you’re one of 13,000 people employed by the District of Columbia, chances are that your personal information, including identifiers such as your social security number, were stolen on Monday, when an ING employee (they run the retirement program) took home a laptop, which was promptly stolen. What’s worse, the laptop wasn’t protected by a [...]
More »Beer + Lime + Ice is almost as nice as…
Beer + lime + ice in ice buckets, served poolside. If you’re sweating through this weekend’s hot and humid heat, do head the brilliance of those in other lands. Specifically, I’m talking the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Last weekend, chilling with my beer + lime + ice in the Peninsula Hotel, I met Imedla Marcos(!), [...]
More »It’s Totally Fine To Assault Capitol Police
I’d like to thank all the members of the Grand Jury today who failed to indict Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a Capitol Police Officer with her cell phone a month or so ago. You have made it totally okay for people to hit cops, get away with it, and come off looking like the victim. [...]
More »Net Neutrality
There’s an issue lurking out there, and chances are, if you’re reading this weblog, you could be affected. Blaine Zuver is the City Captain for Metroblogging Miami, and he’s got an excellent post about Net Neutrality and what’s at stake. Everywhere I go, I see ads by the cable companies conveniently placed on their own [...]
More »“Thanks for Playing, Here’s Your Toaster.”
Or, so said Gov. Ehrlich to Metro Board Member Robert Smith after Smith called homosexuality “sexual deviance” on public television. Generally there’s this thing we have in society called “manners” and it’s clear to me that Smith ought to pick up a copy of Emily Post for posterity. You don’t have to believe being gay [...]
More »TSA Fun out at Dulles
Ah, the TSA. No one likes them, no one trusts them, and they can’t even find a bomb when it’s passed through their own X-Ray detectors. I hear that their image is so bad that even Apco won’t take them. It seems that the crowd out at Dulles is fairly nonchalant about being impersonated, even [...]
More »I ♥ Fashion TV
Stuck in Sri Lanka for work, I am enjoying my time as best I can. Best I can without my quiver of Washington supermodels that usually keep me warm in pairs. How do I cope with their absence? Besides copious amounts of booze, I live by Fashion TV. Not for the actual fashion, mind you, [...]
More »Maryland Residents, help me out….
Dubya. Tee. Eff?! Originally uploaded by tjbax. Yeah yeah yeah, I know I’m supposed to be out honeymooning and stuff, but I just have to ask. Maryland readers, what does SWAT team mean in your state that is so different than what it means to the rest of us? And if it’s not different, perhaps [...]
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