Archive for January, 2007
Package, One, Suspicious in Nature
It’s not a real day in Washington unless someone’s evacuated from their office building or workplace because of a suspicious package left somewhere useful. When I worked downtown, it was a box of napkins dropped in the lobby that lead to our presence on the street for over an hour and a half in the [...]
More »State of the Union 2007 Around the Capitol
I walked over to the Capitol tonight to check out what photographable stuff was going on in the area in the way of protest actions. Word was there’d be a big “State of Emergency” thingy, but when I got to the Grant Memorial, this is what I found: I estimate about 25 people, some with [...]
More »Noises Off – Denied.
photo courtesy of Arena Stage Well, my darling girlfriend and I went to Arena Stage to try to get in to see Noises Off and discovered that they’re sold out though the end of the run. Shoot! I enjoyed the 1992 movie version and was looking forward to seeing the stage version. Guess I wasn’t [...]
More »State of the Union boozin
photo courtesy of Whitehouse.gov “Do you know of any State of the Union Address drinking parties in the DC area?” That flashed up on my IM yesterday afternoon. I assumed someone else here would posit on the matter, but I guess not. So, for my cow orker who claims her “friend wants to know” – [...]
More »Fenty & The Big Cheese
Tonight’s State of the Union Address is likely going to be a real barn burner. Okay, you can stop laughing at me now. It’s going to be, like every other major political speech, filled with promises that won’t be kept, and outright lies on behalf of the politicians involved. What’s interesting about all of this, [...]
More »Yet More Radio Shifting.
WGMS isn’t classical anymore. At 3pm today they became George 104, which is candidly described as a steaming pile of shit in musical form. It’s “70′s and 80′s and whatever we feel like.” Think of it as Disco Stu’s iPod on shuffle. Yeah, I know, you just threw up in your mouth. They fired all [...]
More »Picture Perfect
This is probably the most photographed view of Washington DC, but Jeff Costlow has executed it beautifully. Just head over the your local book store, grab a calendar or photo book, and you’re likely to find it. This shot has it all: great composition, beautiful color, and the Potomac was like glass that day. One [...]
More »Whither the Ruby Slippers?
Michael Grass’ Express post about DC tourists not thinking much of our Chinatown starts off with a little link to Livejournaler matheatre’s disappointment at her DC visit last November, owing to the National Museum of American History being closed for renovations till 2008, thus denying her a look at Dorothy’s ruby slippers. Sadly, she didn’t [...]
More »it’s a footbridge! it’s a crime hazard! it’s a dessert topping!
A footbridge to help pedestrians get to a Metro stop without having to cross the Capital Beltway or its exit ramps sounds like a great idea, right? Silver Spring surely thought so. That is, until the design of the footbridge put pedestrians under the Beltway, in the dark, out of view and out of earshot, [...]
More »Where’s VDOT?
There we were, at about six tonight, leaving Fairlington for Courthouse and some delectable steak. Sadly, VDOT was nowhere to be found. The closest thing we saw to a road crew was a single guy with a bucket of salted sand on 31st. St South, trying to help a stranded Metrobus get up the hill. [...]
More »Perils of the great snowfall of ’07
It’s a freakin’ winter wonderland out there, including traffic tie-ups and my neighbor’s kids sledding down the hilled street we live on. I wish snow helped people have better judgment. We don’t live on a major thoroughfare but we do get our share of traffic. Kids + ice + cars + dusk = no kids. [...]
More »Feeling Chipper
When my cousin Mike told me about Eamonn’s Dublin Chipper, he did so in the same tone of voice that he uses to vehemently recommend his favorite beer or a great place to catch a pint. Something told me that he was absolutely right about the place, so my friend Jeff and I caught lunch [...]
More »Snow?
I can count on one hand — and with only two fingers on that hand — the number of times I’ve seen snow downtown this winter, and on no hands how many inches we’ve gotten out of those flakes. Well, that may be about to change, with CapitalWeather’s crystal ball showing a 70% chance of [...]
More »Zarf: upgrade!
I just watched last night’s Best Week Ever on VH1. Jeffrey Calrson as Zarf’s previously online-only callout has now made it to national tv. Nice! This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »What took you so long, Artie?
You may have heard it yesterday but it’s in all the print media today: Almost a year overdue, Art Buchwald has finally succumbed to his cancer kidney failure. He may not have been the only person ever booted out of a hospice for failure to die in a timely fashion but he’s certainly the first [...]
More »The Early Bird Gets…
…a beautiful “postcard” shot of the Capitol! Andertho has done it again here with this early morning shot of the hornet’s nest. I’m guessing that since this photo was taken on January 1st, he was either walking home from a raging party, or was able to get up early due to an uneventful New Year’s [...]
More »Atlas Redux
The weekend is almost upon us, rearing its happy head. Already friends are congregating online, busy whipping up plans – “Where to go, what to do?” Well, let me inspire you with the tale of last weekend’s return to the Atlas District. Fast becoming my favorite nightlife destination, I first wrote about the burgeoning H [...]
More »CNN Travel “Discovers” U Street & Logan Circle
A Worthy Call: Ben’s In thinking about Logan Circle or U Street, would you ever say “New life comes to once-gritty capital streets? If not, don’t be too shocked, as I never thought that either. I see both areas as “challenged” or maybe “transitional” but never “once gritty”. Georgetown was “once gritty”, but Logan and [...]
More »Fark TV: Gallaudet
Fark.com now has FarkTV. One of their first topics? The Gallaudet University crisis this Fall. Gotta see this one to believe it. Nicely done, Fark. Enjoy. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »I Can See My House from Here
NASA Image of the Day for 17 January 2007: A Capital City. Washington, DC as photographed from the International Space Station as it flew over us in May, 2006. Sure, it’s probably a view you can get with a few taps into Google Maps, but still, pretty amazing. And what’s that big white thing on [...]
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