Archive for November, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving DC
Photo by DC Metroblogger This is turkey is half of today’s feast. There is also a ham in the other oven. When you are cooking for 16+ people you can’t mess around. I am at the edge of DC, a stone’s throw from Takoma Park in the “Nut House” on Butternut Street. Good times and [...]
More »Talk about the outer DC suburbs
While coming back from lovely Key West last night, my darling girlfriend and I stopped at the Tiki Bar, an outdoor sprawling collection of waterfront saloon just north of Islamorada. Someone else had suggested that the Dairy Queen in Key Largo was the natural midway point to stretch your legs but with the temps in [...]
More »CakeLove Shirlington – coming Spring 2007
Get ready, my fellow Arlingtonians. We’re getting our own CakeLove in Shirlington in Spring 2007. The new location will combine a full bakery, like the CakeLove bakeries in DC and Silver Spring, but will also have some tables and cake-by-the-slice like at LoveCafe. Pardon me whilst I quiver with the anticipated sugar high. Fortunately for [...]
More »I am not the only one
Photo by DC Metroblogger This is the line at the Bling Bling Giant today. It proves that I am not the crazy one for waiting until today to shop for Turkey Day fixings. We are all crazy to be cooking for parties of 16 or more hungry and lonely misfits. This post appeared in its [...]
More »And Let the Madness Begin
Photo by DC Metroblogger We all expect madness today at Safeway or Giant, people going mad for turkey and stuffing. But CVS? And bottled water? While he wouldn’t answer my queries, understandable as I was all up in his grill about the bottled water buy out, I still wonder the buyer’s need. Will DC run [...]
More »Green is Near!
Photo by DC Metroblogger While this cold and dreary day depresses event he most joyful, do not despair. Sunny days will come again one day – they must! And then McPherson Square will be ready, will be waiting, thanks to Park Service employees like this. Mixing up dirt for bulb planting, he will convert these [...]
More »The Mass Exodus
I am at home today, not on the road to Toronto, where I thought I would be going for Thanksgiving. Since our travel plans changed last minute I was available to take my wife to work down at 2000 Penn. Usually, traffic on the way there at 8:30 in the morning is pretty bad but [...]
More »World Bank Atrium
I never was very curious about the World Bank building but DC area resident Andy Carvin shows that it really is pretty majestic. Original link here. From Andy Carvin’s blog. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Weather is here, wish you were nice
Just because I’ve gone to visit my family for the holidays doesn’t mean I’m not thinking of y’all. The wall of the Raw Bar here in Key West is festooned with old license plates and I thought that just because they weren’t on a VA car anymore wasn’t a good reason to share them with [...]
More »Shopping Spree at Nordstrom’s
My wife recently came into possession of a $200 gift card for Nordstrom’s. At first I was happy as a pig farmer with new hip waders, thinking of all the clothes we could get with that wad of dough. Then we actually went to Nordstrom’s. Good Goobly Goop! A tie for $135? A sweater for [...]
More »Jim Moran: Lockstep
Jim Moran, Congresscritter for the 8th District of Virginia and Alexandria resident. God what a toolbag this guy is. The Post Express Blog has all the sordid details on his career, except for the MBNA loan he took conveniently around the time of Bankruptcy reform bills. Assaulted an eight year old black kid? Check. Two [...]
More »Soriano a Cub, Bowden a Moron
So, someone out there on the internet could do us all a great big favor and photoshop Jim Bowden’s head on to the body of a horse, or maybe in place of it’s rear end, just so we can post it with this story. Alfonso Soriano took the big bucks in Chicago, signing an eight [...]
More »Goodbye Chief Ramsey, Helloooooo Nurse!
In my last post, I mentioned Chief Ramsey was probably on his way out. Little did I know… This morning Mayor-Elect Fenty named Commander Cathy Lanier to be DC’s next Chief of Police, effective on January 3rd. Commander Lanier began her career in DC back in 1990 as a beat officer in the Fourth District, [...]
More »Guns Don’t Kill People, I Do.
Well, we’re better than New Orleans or Los Angeles. When it comes to murders-by-firearm ratios. Sure, we’re at 80% of the homicides being fatal gunshots, but it could be much worse. New Orleans? 92% of homicides are caused by guns. But, where are these guns coming from? Aren’t guns supposed to be illegal in DC? [...]
More »The Art of the Portrait
DC Photographer Don Brodie has an exhibition at the CAT Gallery at Montgomery College, Rockville Campus. The show is titled “The Art of the Portrait” and is on display until December 31st. If you are not aware of Don’s portraits, you are really missing out. Take some time and go see this exhibit. Don is [...]
More »Deserving of Dupont
I’ve seen many photos of the fountain in Dupont Circle, but very few have caught my eye. They look more like tourist snapshots than a photographer’s work. I think part of the reason behind this is that there are many angles at which one can shoot it from, yet very few of those angles are [...]
More »Driving vs. Flying: What’s the Decision Point?
My wife and I are traveling to Toronto on Wednesday to see her parents during the four-day weekend (extended a fifth day by my sneaky calendar-wrangling skills) and were trying to decide a few weeks ago whether to fly or drive. The drive, at approximately ten hours, half of that through every tiny town in [...]
More »This is the SF Difference
Photo by DC Metroblogger Hello DC freaks. This would be the good life with San Francisco freaks. And no matter how freaky you think you are, the SF freaks will out do you. That may not be a bad thing as too many people here seem to be trying a little too hard. Not these [...]
More »Rock Bottom Brewery: Great Beer, Good Food and Self-Help Tipping
I recently killed an afternoon after work at the Rock Bottom Brewery at Ballston Commons, one of my favorite places to sit and enjoy a brew. Rock Bottom has a wonderful collection of beers brewed on premises by a master brewer. The food is good, although limited for vegetarians, which puts a bit of a [...]
More »Ritz Camera: Home to People Who Don’t Know Photography
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Ritz Camera seems to be a haven for people who don’t really know anything about photography? I have been to stores in at least three states and am consistently disappointed. Maybe it’s their hiring practices but they seem to select for the choice combination of [...]
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