Archive for December, 2006
Put a Stop to Your Action
I am completely amazed by Flickr user Steve Strawn’s gallery of stop action, broken glass photos. The planning, creativity, and perseverance that’s needed to do work like this is hard to find. The lighting in his photos is fantastic and his use of colors (this one titled “Broken Primaries”) really adds the extra pop to [...]
More »Holiday Shopping for the Agoraphobic
So there I was, standing in line at Filene’s on Connecticut today, and I swear I must have gotten the trainee cashier. I hadn’t eaten lunch yet and it took so long that by the time I was done my hands were shaking so badly from low blood sugar that I could barely sign the [...]
More »Seven Local Churches Split
Over the weekend, seven episcopal parishes in northern Virginia voted to split with the Diocese of Virginia over the issue of homosexuality. Specifically, the seven parishes object to the ordination of a gay bishop and the sanctioning of same sex unions. The churches now each face a lengthy legal battle regarding the ownership of the [...]
More »Unpack those shorts
Apparently we’re expected to set a record high today with temperatures in the mid 70s in some areas. Amazing stuff for the second half of December. If you’re in the downtown area you might want to use this lovely weather as an excuse to wander over to the Downtown Holiday Market set up over on [...]
More »Get your annual free cupcake
I took my darling girlfriend out to dinner at Cafe Atlantico on Friday night for her birthday, and while the entrees were fantastic we didn’t find any deserts that really blew our skirts up. Yes Wayan, we were indeed both wearing skirts. So nyah. So we decided to go over to Love Cafe for a [...]
More »Your New Adams Morgan Happy Hour
Photo by DCMetblogger Now this is happy hour pricing! Check out those wallet-friendly prices. My favs: $5 Cuban Mojitos$8 Corona Buckets Yep, Santa Rosa Seafood Sports Bar at 18th and Wyoming is on my happy hour list. While it might not be a Cafe Citron Thursday and maybe lacking the young and beautiful, I know [...]
More »Fire in the sky
photo courtesy of Schoschie Anyone else see that shooting star flash across the sky arounf 6:08pm this evening? Pretty damned cool – it was visible for about a full three seconds and looked like it had calved – I saw two distinct bright dots next to each other. Just to show that I haven’t entirely [...]
More »Behind the Scenes
Downtown After Dark Originally uploaded by tbridge. For every commission report and press conference in DC, of which there are approximately 3 gazillion each year, there are the people that appear on the news, and there are the people who make the event Happen. If you see enough of these events in your time here [...]
More »DC United to Host MLS Cup
As punishment for losing to the New England Revolution, the DC United, er, wait a second. Let’s stop and have a moment here. I’ve been castigated twice on other blogs this week for using a definite article to refer to the soccer-team-that-plays-at-RFK-and-whose-name-involves-the-concept-of-unification. Is it The DC United? Or just DC United? Does it really fucking [...]
More »DC Phone Book Waste
Photo by DCMetblogger Look! Phone books! Wow. I cannot believe they still make those things. I guess there are still couches missing legs. Or maybe it’s a cheap way to heat when firewood runs low. This is Washington DC, we are all online. Why are there still phone books? And who still uses them? You? [...]
More »Get Ready for a Fare Hike
With Metro’s giant budget gap looming, and the budget meeting to discuss new fare and service options this evening, commuters and other Metro riders ought to get ready for some pain in the wallet. Metro’s fares have remained constaint since 2003, and are now facing a significant increase. What’s good? SmarTrip users won’t pay quite [...]
More »Where Will You Go Smoke Free?
Outside with ya! Come this time next month, you’ll not be inside a bar, hacking out a lung. No, you’ll be inside the bar, enjoying Smoke Free DC while the smokers freeze outside. With this victory for health, if only for your lungs and not your liver too, where are you gonna go? The folks [...]
More »Cambodian Food in DC?
Can anyone recommend a good Cambodian restaurant in the area? I have looked but haven’t found anything. I even consulted a Cambodian woman I met, who told me the closest one is in New York. With an area as diverse as DC, it seems that we should have something here. I await the list of [...]
More »And Auckland Makes 51!
Welcome to the Metroblogging Network our newest city: Auckland! If you haven’t had a chance yet to see some of the other great cities that are part of our expansive 5-continent network, click the map over there at the right and you can see some of the other cool places that we cover in our [...]
More »Seafood: Wasted on the Waterfront?
Photo by DC Metroblogger Waste. That is what I think when I see this amazing display of fish. The waste of the un-bought, unconsumed, uneaten seafood that died to spoil. Can Washington DC really consume this much seafood via the Fish Market in Southwest? Will they really sell all that salmon, all those crabs, all [...]
More »Happy Holidays: Time to Eat!
Photo by DC Metroblogger This is the lobby of my office building today (points if you can figure out which one). Free food always brings out a crowd. A hungry crowd of office rats. Now who in your office would be the first rat at the table? For us, it was accounting. Figures. This post [...]
More »Make Way For Weirdos: Getting That Much-Desired Elbow Room on the Metro
I may have found out how not to feel like a squished fish in a tin can during morning and afternoon commutes. Recently I was recording sounds of the Metro with a small handheld digital recorder and noticed that everyone gave me quite a bit of room, although not without slightly freaked-out gazes. Look – [...]
More »Capitol of Punk Updated
The ever-cool Capitol of Punk has updated their DC tours with text message options, so that as you’re on the tour, you can text the tour and get updated messages and history from the various sites in DC. Check it out, it’s worth it to see DC’s incredible place in the history of Punk Rock. [...]
More »DorkBot DC – Your Electro-Geek Connection
“The Brainwave Chick” Paras Kaula My friend Andy Carvin just alerted me to the ultimate Geek-Meet in DC this week: Dorkbot DC. How geeky can something with the name “dorkbot” be? How about this description: Dorkbot DC is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/etc.), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the DC area [...]
More »Freddy Adieu
All six fans of the DC United are likely crying in their beers tonight as Freddy Adu’s been traded to Salt Lake, along with their veteran goalie, for a reserve goalie and what amounts to two players to be named later. Adu’s career in DC has been disappointing, primarily for Freddy who wanted more playing [...]
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