Archive for December, 2006
Free First Night for Active Military
photo courtesy of First Night
If you’re a military family man or woman home for New Year’s and looking for an event outside the home, First Night is offering free admission for you and reduced entry for your family.[pdf] Just bring [...]
More »A Bad Sign at the Bling Bling Giant
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Walking into the Bling Bling Giant for last minute New Years Eve shopping, this empty cart rack is a bad sign.
A sign of a packed grocery store that shocks me. Why are so many folks shopping today. Are you?
I am here because my fridge is empty after two [...]
Stuck inside Toronto with the Arlington blues again
It’s snowing here in Toronto. Not bad, mind you, but any snow at all means it’s colder than I like. I just looked at the Arlington weather predictions and saw a high of 55 for today. Only two more days before I get back to decent weather and grits for breakfast.
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Right Place, Right Time
While browsing through photos of DC using one of my favorite Flickr tools, I did a double take when I saw this shot. Maybe I’m the only one who hasn’t seen a ginormous chopper landing on the White House lawn, but it’s a scene straight from the movies. It’s as if they were [...]
More »great moments in bad decisions
The story about the guy who got drunk on last night’s United Flight 1295 from DC to Fort Myers and then threw a tantrum is amusing, but by itself not particularly newsworthy. Even the fact that he hit another passenger during his alcohol-fueled hissy-fit isn’t that notable.
Why am I writing about it?
The passenger this [...]
My DC Holiday Pit Stop
Today is my DC Holiday Pit Stop, a relaxing one-day respite. This year we decided to do the Dreaded Double, the Equitable Split – two Christmases, one with my family, one with his. We just returned last night from Phase One: Florida, and tomorrow depart for Phase Two: Pennsylvania. I know I’m not alone in [...]
More »Gerald Ford, 38th POTUS – Dead at 93
My first president (being born in ‘75), died on Tuesday. Albeit he took over in a time of crisis, both during a war and the defiling of an office, he rose above his station and led the country forward. I’m sure there will be a number of obits regarding his life over the next few [...]
More »Why you should support alternative energy sources
It’s that time of year again. The annual rite of passage of getting “toasted” on New Years, with yourself and/or your significant other. It seems the WaPo likes to publish the fun stories late in the evening, like this one about the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company (Minnesota) who, besides making that gasoline additive we all [...]
More »Holiday Travel at National Airport: A Welcome Relief
I have to say that flying out of DCA is a breeze, at least in my experience. I am working with a skewed set of comparisons, though, so this may not be a fair assessment. Even during the holiday rush a few days ago, the security personnel were very friendly, wishing me and my million [...]
More »How Stupid Do You Have To Be
Okay, so this is last Friday news… and to those of you who read Attrition.org, it’s even older news… but it seems the news outlets finally discovered it and put a name with the nom-de-plume… although it wasn’t that hard…
You see, with the election season coming full-steam ahead, it seems a certain Congressional staffer wanted [...]
More »Watch those roads
photo courtesy of VDOT
Heard it on the radio earlier today – VDOT’s going to have a fair number of lane closures on I-395 between now and the weekend, when they’ll pause again for holiday traffic. Hopefully you’re taking some much-deserved [...]
More »Hello All!
Well, Hello everybody, and namely those regular Metblog readers. I figured I’d slip in my “hello” under the radar of the “holidays” (and aren’t there so many of them) to all those dilligent readers who don’t have the local “use or loose” and are stuck at work this week.
As a slight introduction, I’ve been a [...]
Happy Holidays from Metroblogging DC
Happy Holidays from the Authors of Metroblogging DC. May your season be one of joy, peace, good will and good friends and family. The photos here are from various flickrstreams of our authors, and some that you have posted to our Flickr Group. Thanks especially to Max Cook, Maria K., bossa67 and [...]
More »Did the WB have a fire sale?
I’ll have a writeup about our experience seeing She Loves Me later today, I hope (executive summary: very good, you should go, it’s the last week) but for the moment I’ll just comment on Arena Stage’s odd advertising.
Uh, what? Did they pick this up at a white elephant sale when the now-defunct WB [...]
More »Rastafarian Corporation
If you’re an electronica music fan like I am, and you know your DC bands, then of course you love Thievery Corporation. Even if you don’t live in DC and you’ve seen such movies as Garden State, you’ve heard their music and chances are you liked it.
I attended their concert at the 9:30 Club [...]
VA DMV Pranking
Captured by YouTube:
Now, granted, this may cause some controversy: Which is worse? That these jackasses got away with being jackasses, or that they got licenses like that?
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Reason #496 to Love Maryland: Everclear
You can get a lot of things in Virginia and in DC, but one thing you can’t get is Everclear. It’s 190 proof, highly flammable, and only available in Maryland. So, as I was out on a client visit anyhow, I stopped by a liquor store on the way home and picked [...]
More »Feast of Seven Fishes
My grandmother’s grandfather got off the boat from Italy, settled in Pittsburgh, and pretty much never went anywhere else. Neither did most of his descendants. So even though “Baxendell” is about the least Italian name you’ll hear, and even though I look less Italian than almost anyone you know, it’s the Italian part [...]
More »Taxi Mafia Worse Than DC
Photo by DC Metroblogger
This would be a taxi in Old San Juan, the capitol of Puerto Rico. Guess how much it is for a ride around their “Zone 1″?
$10. And then it jumps up by $5 at the mystery “zone” lines like in DC.
Its pretty much at least $20 for a [...]
DC Media Makers Meeting Tonight
Anyone interested in meeting others who do media stuff online, feel free to come to the Cleveland Park Library at 6:30 tonight. Here are all the details.
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