Archive for November, 2006
Racism on the Metro
"White Workers Emergency Action" Flyer on the Metro
Originally uploaded by brownpau.
DC Blogger brownpau sent me this flyer today, which was placed on every one of the seats of a Red Line train in Union Station the other day, preaching all manner of anti-immigrant hate. What’s weirdest? [...]
More »How Do You Know You’re in Suburbia?
Photo by DC Metroblogger
When the sign for the Metro station points down some random two-lane road, you can’t even see the station from the main road, and there isn’t a sidewalk along either road.
Thankfully there is a crosswalk and cars actually stop for pedestrians as they cross the road. At [...]
Virginia to Actually Ticket, Fine Toll Dodgers
Apparently, no one’s been watching the toll-breakers on the Dulles Toll Road. The clanging bells, the lights, they’re just for show. At least, until the first of the year… Virginia is finally installing cameras to watch the toll plazas along the Dulles Toll Road in order to fine those who don’t pay [...]
More »DC is the 27th Best Place for Women in 2007
Thanks to Victoria E’s post on San Francisco Metroblogging, I now know Self Magazine’s Best Place For Women 2006
And where might DC rank on their revered list?
Population: 5,276,900
Ranking: 27 out of 100
+ Below-average rates of depression
+ Among the top five areas for rates of women getting Pap smears
+ Among the top five scores for [...]
what’s in that motorcade?
Most of us who have been here for a while have a pretty good idea about what goes into a presidential motorcade, but Slate’s Explainer column actually went and did the research.
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Enough with the Christmas Music Already!
Has anyone noticed that WASH-FM 97.1 seems to be playing only Christmas music? Good gracious – it’s like indoctrination. I don’t know what they usually play but I hope my wife isn’t upset when she discovers that I changed that radio setting to some all-Spanish station so at least we can have some musical variety.
This [...]
Washington, DC’s 4th Gift to the World – Cherry Blossoms
Okay, okay, we admit it. It’s time to come clean.
Here in DC, we’re terrible re-gifters. Here we are, claiming the cherry blossom trees along the tidal basin as our gift to the world, when the first 3000 trees were in fact a gift to the city from the mayor of Tokyo, [...]
Widen Your Point of View
I know, I know. It’s entirely possible that I spoke too soon about the best shot of the Air Force Memorial. I take it all back and throw this out instead: There is no best shot. I will say this however, a memorial of this size really lends itself to a wide [...]
More »Arlington Residents: Don’t park on the leaves!
The Arlington Co. web site reminds us not to park on the leaves that line many of the streets. The site also refers to a Post article from last December about a fellow who parked in a pile of leaves and lost his car to flames just minutes later. I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as [...]
More »A Soldier’s Last Stand
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Solemn they stand in the grass, cold, white orderly. Tombstones at the Soldiers Home National Cemetery.
Would you know anyone there – the graveyard, I mean? I run by it often, yet I never see a living soul among the souls passed.
I have a friend who [...]
a canadian tips about a dc pizza place from a new york site
A friend from my other blogging life, the Recruiting Animal, passes along this tip for DC pizza-lovers.
Well, if you ever find yourself down this way, I strongly suggest you come to my neighborhood of Mount Pleasant and check out Radius Pizza. While I would not call it 100 percent New York-style pizza, it is awesome [...]
Washington, DC’s 5th Gift to the World-Music (Duke Ellington)
My portion of this 5th Gift to the World is a tribute to the coolest musical Washingtonian ever – Edward Kennedy Ellington, the Duke.
Many people may associate Duke Ellington with New York (thanks in part to the classic “Take the ‘A’ Train”) but his roots were firmly planted in DC, and especially [...]
An inconvenient print layout
Boing Boing has linked a post talking about an article by Laurie David about a recent rejection by the NTSA of 50,000 free copies of the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” for schools. Both the Boing Boing and the Conscious Earth postings are up-front about the fact that the author is a producer of the movie, [...]
More »Washington, DC’s 6th Gift to the World-Ben’s Chili Bowl
In the spirit of all the holiday gift giving that will be taking place over the next couple of months, all the Metroblogging cities are giving 7 gifts to the world throughout the week of Nov, 26th through Dec, 2nd. This is Washington, DC’s 6th Gift to the World – Ben’s Chili Bowl.
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More »myLHBS: Keeping NoVA Safe for Homebrewing
After posting my original frustrated missive about how there did not seem to be any homebrew shops in the area (see Is the DC Area Anti-Home Brew?), I got lots of suggestions on where to go. One store appeared to be only a few miles from my home. How could I have missed it, I [...]
More »Thanksgiving End
Ah, the end of Thanksgiving weekend. The frigid cold is gone, the windows open to a spring-like breeze. Slowly, cars are returning to our block as neighbors drive back from grandma’s house in the ‘burbs or airport hell. We’re relaxing in front of football, slurping down Thanksgiving Soup Surprise (this year’s version: turkey and curry [...]
More »This is as calm as today will ever be
If you were up at 4am for your early flight today, as I was…. sucks to be us, huh? On the other hand, the quality of light at dawn rivals anything you can pull off in Photoshop. Anyway, so far being one of the 2.3-2.4M expected travelers in the skies hasn’t been too [...]
More »Cue the Chemical Brothers
I’ve been wanting to write about this photo for a long time now but have always stopped short and wrote about something else. I think this is partly because I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I like it so much, but it’s probably because the shot tells a story and sets a [...]
More »A Sure Sign of Fall
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Our fall fun with leaves was fleeting. Gone are the leaf blowers. Bye bye leaf piles.
Winter is near and its time to prepare.
Bag your leaves. Bag your window A/C. Bag your summer clothes.
Winter is near and its time to prepare.
This post appeared in its original form at DC [...]
The Maryland Rip Off
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Today I ran out to the West Hyattsville Metro stop to burn off a little Thanksgiving Turkey and in search of a drink I found Maryland News Stand.
The name is all wrong as there was not much news for sale. A better name would be Maryland Liquor and [...]
