Archive for August, 2006
Metro: Open Tellers
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This is the line at WMATA Metro Center sales office right now. A dozen deep as the noon rush looks to buy cards and passes.
How is this for a customer pleasing move: open more teller windows during the lunch rush.
Having your automated Smartcard machine working would not hurt [...]
Stripclubs Sue Prince George’s County
Hoping to block new regulations in effect today, three strip clubs in Prince George’s County have sued to get the regulations set aside in Federal Court. The new regulations required a stage of 18″ and a 6′ gap between the dancers and the patrons of such an establishment, and of course I could see [...]
More »Who Didn’t Get the Memo?
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Someone down at the DDOT didn’t get the memo. It’s no longer the MCI Center. It’s now the Chinatown Killer. Woops, I mean the suburban Verizon Center.
Wait; doesn’t this sign give you a little hope? Hope that maybe the conglomerate that just bought rights [...]
What are the odds?
Tom and I are partial-season ticket holders for the Nationals. Last night’s game against the Phillies is one of the games in our package, but Tom was unable to go. A friend of mine had planned to go with me, but at the last minute, we decided that we didn’t feel like sitting [...]
More »A Drink At Lunch
The Three Martini Lunch. A DC Tradition for so many years. It represents all that is smoky backroom Washington: grizzled old fat men in suits that cost as much as used cars, dirty martinis that are strong enough to fill molotov cocktails, steaks the size of your head.
Is the era of the Three [...]
DC Hack Inspector Strikes Again!
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How’s that for a sight never seen before: A DC Hack Inspector giving a taxi driver a ticket.
Yeah, I didn’t know we had hack inspectors either, definitely not by the way DC taxi drivers try to cheat us every damn trip or gouge the tourists mercilessly. [...]
Happy Birthday, Lewis Black
Happy Birthday to local son and generally hilarious mofo Lewis Black, who turns 58 today.
To stir the pot, I’d like to present you with a couple of choice Lewis Black quotes about his hometown:
“I’m from Silver Spring, but I tell people I’m from Washington, DC. Because if you tell people you’re [...]
Flickr Adds Geotagging
Ever-popular online photo server Flickr has launched a sweet new Geotagging feature that takes advantage of locational data that you can put into your stream.
Check out this awesome map of DC with spots that show off some of the locations that have been photographed by all you DC shutter bugs! Great shots of the [...]
More »Dremo’s Last Days?
When I first moved here, it was Ningaloo, and I played pool on the tables there in the summertime, drank beer out of pitchers and flirted with the bartendress. Then it was closed, and it eventually became Dr. Dremo, or just Dremo’s. Good beer on tap, old video games, interesting interior decor, and [...]
More »free ice cream at 14th and K
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PNC Bank is giving out free ice cream right now in front of its new K Street branch.
If you want your own, hurry up. I got a Nutty Buddy and they were going fast.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Salsa dancing is good for social justice
A friend who is new to town tipped me to the salsa nights held by the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. For $5, you get a salsa lesson, drink specials, and door prizes. Your super-cheap salsa lesson fee will benefit the GHRC’s mission to end political violence, violence against women, and other human rights abuses [...]
More »Metro Fires Politicking Driver
Last week, we wrote about the the bus driver who loved some Vitamin C, and promoted Vincent Orange for Mayor on his bus route, asking his riders to think about the votes on September 12th. While I can support his civic-mindedness, and certainly his drive to educate DC’s voting populace about the upcoming race, [...]
More »Cheap DC Accommodations
So you and your family wanna see the Nation’s Capitol, but you are concerned about he cost of hotels. You are worried that after you pay $100 a night, minimum, for accommodation, you’ll be eating Ramen noodles for months to pay off the credit cards.
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May I offer [...]
More »Bite Me, Thomson Creek Windows
You may have heard their ads on the radio, or seen their ads on WTOP.com or WashingtonPost.com, they have a big media buy in the DC area right now for the windows and shades. But here’s what happened when I tried to get some new windows for my condo.
After doing a bunch of looking [...]
More »Bridge Fall Down, Go Boom
The Washington Post has a great video piece on last night’s demolition of the old span of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, including an interview with Daniel Ruefly, who got to start the chain reaction of explosions that destroyed the old span of the bridge. I didn’t make it out to the detonation last night, [...]
More »Turtle racing!
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While darling girlfriend and I were looking for someplace to damage our livers kill some time in oldtown on Saturday night we started to walk past Austin Grill…. and saw the giant turtle.
Since normally this is the kind of thing that we start seeing after the imbibing we had to go [...]
Want Cheap Drugs? DC.GOV Can Help
That’s right, if you are a’ hankering for your V1agra or Cali*s and you’d rather not buy it from the plentiful email pitchmen, the District’s website can direct you to a better way: import it from Canada.
To quote the DC Examiner:
On the D.C. government’s home page, www.dc.gov, is a link to Minnesota’s RxConnect [...]
How do you know you’re in the wrong bar?
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If you are single guy in DC, on the prowl for new supermodels for your harem, there is one sign you do not want to see on your way to the bathroom.
Granted, I don’t want to be stepping over drunk GW students either, but I was hoping that [...]
passports needed to drink?!
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At lunch today an Italian was told that his Italian drivers license was not sufficient to prove his age to drink.
The (bitchy) server said she needed a US Government ID or a foreign passport for her alcohol age check. She claimed that this is a new law in [...]
Lyle and his Large Band
Another summer, another Lyle Lovett appearance at WolfTrap. It’s usually one of the highlights of the year and one concert I never miss. I can almost hear the eye-rolling out in our readership – my experience in trying to convey my love for his work is often similar to [...]
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