Archive for October, 2006

Marine Corps Marathon

Photo by DC Metroblogger

This is the scene in Washington DC today: The Marine Corps Marathon.
More a moving street party than a foot race, the runners are outnumbered by the cheering squads.
Runners: how was the race for you?
Us spectators are hoarse from shouting out encouragement.
This post appeared in its original form at [...]

Get your boo on

photo courtesy of Calleva Outdoors

There’s three nights left to pay for the privilege of tromping through the forest and being scared. I highly recommend it.
I’m talking about local staple Markoff’s Haunted Forest in Maryland, of course. An annual event organized [...]

WaPo Vs. BoingBoing?

This is a live story, with several updates. Please read it all, it takes many turns, and you won’t know what happened unless you do. There are several updates, which are listed at the bottom of this story and are crucial to understanding the context and content of this story.

By now, I’m sure, [...]

Dress warm, marathon cheerers-on

Runners too, but I’m sure they’re all in bed by now. Capitol Weather had this to say about tomorrow’s weather.
Given abundant sunshine, temperatures will warm to near 60 — but it will feel cooler than that — particulary in the shade.
Marine Corps Marathon runners will experience temperatures rising through the 40s under clear skies but [...]

Is the DC Area Anti-Home Brew?

I went today to the Annapolis Home Brew Shop to get some supplies. A winter should never be entered into without adequate beer and wine and I am fixing to make both. One question though – are there no home brew places closer than Annapolis? It seems like there should be something closer but I [...]

Is there a statute of limitations on plates?

Isn’t it time to trade this in for a new one? How do you abbreviate “Didn’t make it into the post-season” anyway?
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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The Driving Dead

Photo by ShawnBlog

Alright all you ghosts and goblins getting your costume geek on: what is tonight’s verdict?
Are you gonna be a mommy gone mummy? A pirate lost at sea? A page looking for Foley? Or just the living dead?
What is your costume? Better yet, where are the [...]

Buses: Blocking the Box

Photo by DC Metroblogger

Yo, Mr. Big-Ass Bus, did you notice the traffic jam? Both the one you are in and the one you are causing.
See that line of cars not going anywhere, no need for you to pull in behind them. You are only gonna be caught in [...]

Hot Chocolate Kind of Day

Five Dollar Hot Chocolate

Originally uploaded by tbridge.

I was up at an hour too early to mention in print, on the road for a meeting in Ocean City. I was halfway there before the sun had even begun to make its presence known. On the way [...]

Noisy and pointless (no, not the Senate)

Is there a more goddamned useless invention in common use than the leaf blower? In exchange for droning noise and unpleasant exhaust you get leaves that have been blown around… blown around. Here’s one of the two offenders in my office parking lot today doing their part for monoxide emissions. The end [...]

EZ OUT of Your Pocket

Photo by DC Metroblogger

Here is a funny indication of how long I’ve been Car Free DC.
Last week, while shopping at the Pentagon City mall, I saw this: the EZ OUT. Who knew the parking lot fees were automated at the Mall?
Still, the very concept that a mall, dependent [...]

I See Mean People

DC’s finest, the Metropolitan Police Department, recently released a new tool on the dc.gov website that actually allows you to see a spatial representation of the kind of crime that is going on our city. Homicide in Shaw? Sex abuse in Mount Pleasant? Stolen auto in Capitol Hill? Nah, couldn’t be. [...]

Me Like Massive Art

Phto by DC Metroblogger

I love big art. No, make that massive art.
These two dancing sculptures are always my high-point a visit to Rosslyn. Besides the passport check as I cross the Potomac, of course.
Tonight they were more festive than usual, sashaying through my buzz after another good night at Cafe Asia. [...]

WMATA Asking For Bus Line Input

Photo by DC Metroblogger

Now this is a public announcement by WMATA – a flyer right in a bus stop on the bus route affected by a proposed change!
The flyer, announcing public meetings on the proposal to restructure Metrobus routes 30-36 is where riders that care will see it. Riders like the [...]

Post Payola?

The other day, when the Post printed an article by Neal Mueller on the iPod’s inability to play Van Halen at 30,000 feet above sea level, I said, “Man, bummer that my iPod won’t play bad 80s hair rock on the top of the world.” Turns out, I should’ve been saying “Hey, wait a [...]

The Sky is the Limit

About a year ago, a photographer that I know came bursting out of his house with his camera equipment, as if he knew that Scarlett Johansson was going to be at the Hinckley Hilton and he was rushing to get some shots of her. I asked him what his hurry was and he said, [...]

Metroblogging Melbourne: Vegemite ban or cheap shot at the US?

Our colleague Neil at Metroblogging Melbourne has done a bit of footwork and discovered that Vegemite has not been banned in the US at all. The whole uproar started when somebody tried to come over the border from Canada and had his Vegemite confiscated. The FDA confirms that there is no such [...]

Drive Through Flu Shots?

Pandemic. It’s one of those words we see tossed around without understanding what exactly it means. According to the dictionary in my handy computer, Pandemic is an adjective, “(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.” Such previous pandemics include the flu outbreak of 1918, which killed between 50 [...]

How Much Do You Like Scotch?

Photo by DC Metroblogger

Do you like scotch? The old school version of whisky.
Do you like it enough to stand in the cold for it? What about 30 minutes of cold on a Wednesday night?
These fools, or drunkards, like scotch, Johnny Walker Scotch enough to do just that tonight.
Were you one of [...]

How’s the new commute Joseph Persichini?

The FBI Taj Mahal

If you read today’s WashPost article “FBI’s Fairfax Agents Packing For Pr. William” you could be forgiven for believe that the reason for the FBI moving its Northern Virginia-based agents from Tysons Corner to rural Prince William County is “visionary”:
“If you look at the data for where is the [...]