Archive for January, 2007
Someplace I will never f***ing go
Image courtesy of scumbag adjerks who I’ll be damned if I’m going to give a link to. You can google ’science club’ if you have some self-hate issues to work out.
Hey Science Club, I’d link to your website in this rant but I’m not willing to subject my readers [...]
More »Share your DC… invite more tourists!
The Washington, DC Convention and Tourism Corporation has launched ShareYourDC as part of a larger research project to figure out how best to promote DC as a travel and convention destination. While I doubt that those of us who don’t own lunch counters and street kiosks would say that we feel an acute need [...]
More »Do You Need a Parking Meter Hero?
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Do you need a need a hero? Someone you can hold out ’til the morning light?
Then this is your hero. This is the street-wise Hercules, the man to fight the rising parking ticket odds.
He is racing on the thunder and slicing with heat. [...]
Metro: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Remember when I got all temporally mixed up and mistakenly said “yesterday” yesterday about a Red Line track fire at Farragut North? Now I can say it and be correct: Fire Reported Inside Farragut North Metro Station. Third time since last Friday, and the Metro’s closed between Metro Center and Dupont Circle. As you can [...]
More »Studio’s This is How It Goes
photo courtesy of Studio Theatre
Here’s a disclaimer, and you can decide whether or not to take it into account when reading this review. I’m fond of Neil LaBute’s work, and have been since I first saw the movie version of [...]
More »Thanks for the Pollution, Williams Construction Services
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Mmmmm…. Doesn’t that look good? Don’t you wanna get up close and personal to that exhaust pipe and inhale? Absorb that particulate pollution directly.
Or do you want to get up close and personal with Williams Construction Services of Manassas Virginia?
Do you want to [...]
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Delays on the Red Line
It hasn’t been a good week for Farragut North on the Red Line. Just a day Four days after a debris fire on the Glenmont-bound tracks caused delays and single-tracking Monday Friday morning, we now have reports of smoke this morning at the same station, causing yet more single-tracking on the Shady Grove tracks between [...]
More »Fenty Upstages School Board?
With the weekend’s DC-area murder toll at 6, it was clear that Mayor Fenty and his Police Chief, Cathy Lazier, needed to do something to address the violence that spiked in the Shaw neighborhood, as well as in Southeast. So, he and the Chief unveiled at a 10am conference a cry for help from [...]
More »Pay Phoning Home from Lauriol Plaza
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Check this out. It’s a pay phone! When was the last time you saw, much less used, one?
This archaic bit of technology isn’t even in a convenient for conversation location – its in the men’s bathroom at Lauriol Plaza.
While I’ve had my share of [...]
A small DC blogging world after all
Photo by DC Metroblogger
How small is the DC blogging community? I am not back it the USA 24 hours before I run into AOL Joe at a random Dupont Circle house party .
As the name suggests, Joe blogs for the area’s largest consumer IT company and he seems to be everywhere.
From [...]
Dinner at Viridian
A few weeks ago Jen was ahead of my darling girlfriend and I – we noticed her and her darling husband walking about twenty paces ahead of us on NW 8th St by Cafe Belga. This week it seems we’re leading her: we had dinner at Viridian last night, where she had brunch [...]
More »Blurring the Boundaries
The unnervingly direct stare of Jessie Mann penetrates the viewer. Take a few minutes in Adamson Gallery at 14th and P, and see what I mean. Titled “Self Possessed,” it’s a small showing of twenty-seven prints, on display until February 24th.
The photographs are the result of a partnership between Jessie Mann (as model, though in [...]
Brunch at Viridian
There are several “new” restaurants that I’ve been wanting to try for so long that they are now no longer really to be classified as “new” – Viridian has been at the top of the list for a while and I finally had a reason to go today for brunch after a gallery visit with [...]
More »Antiwar March Map
Big antiwar march — who’s going (or went)? The following map (ganked and slightly modified from the Washington Post) should show you where to go — or what to avoid, depending on which way you lean or what you need to do in the area today:
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
Like
Unlike
Good Thing They Know His Nickname!
While each and every murder is a tragedy in DC, apparently each and every murder investigation is also a bad comedy. From the Washington Post:
D.C. police said yesterday they know the nickname of the man who allegedly killed a 17-year-old girl at a Northwest Washington nightclub over the weekend but have not been able [...]
The Tracks Ahead
I’m not going to talk about the bitter cold this morning. It’s too depressing to even think about. Instead, I’m going to write about Metro’s precarious position, which is only slightly less painful. Our transit system, now in the hands of its fourth chief in 12 months, is suffering from planning difficulty [...]
More »The Metblogs Post I Never Foresaw…
Supreme Court
Originally uploaded by justindc.
On the list of topics I never, ever would have thought about writing for metblogs, comparison of legal documents’ aesthetics is at the top of them. How is it that Alexandria’s Subpoenas are so much prettier than Arlington’s? When I witnessed [...]
More »Free fighting and cholesterol poisoning for students
Yeah, I’m just bitter I can’t take advantage. I just got an email from the Caps with this information in it.
The Washington Capitals, Papa John’s and DC101 have teamed up to create Papa John’s College Night, which will debut this Saturday at Verizon Center when the Capitals take on the Carolina Hurricanes [...]
More »Mayor Fenty’s Free Movie Theatre
Major Hat Tip to Marc Fisher of the Post for this fun tidbit: “D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s office has invited 120 homeless people to a screening of “The Pursuit of Happyness,” the Hollywood flick about a homeless man who becomes a fancy stockbroker. The homeless people will gather tomorrow morning to see the Will Smith [...]
More »Congress Gives DC “Practice” Vote.
Think of it like a learner’s permit. Or a training bra. Or maybe like training wheels.
The House of Representatives has awarded DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton a symbolic vote in floor matters for the first time since 1993. As part of the Committee of the Whole, both Norton and the [...]
