Archive for February, 2007
No TV in The Bathroom Now!
Photo by DC Metroblogger When you are standing in the men’s room of new Old Dominion Brewery in the Convention Center, look up. Is that loud TV blaring down at you, disrupting your quiet piss point? Then do a Metroblogging moment: pull the power cord. Urination should be free from commercial interruption corruption. Even if [...]
More »A banner day for legal idiocy
Normally it takes idiot homophobia for our government to make me ashamed to live in Virginia, but both the judicial branch and the legislative branch are conspiring to make me frustrated with driving law too. Maybe the two groups can come together to ban homosexuals from driving, call it the Fighting Against Gay Driving In [...]
More »duct tape, plastic sheeting, Meow Mix…
Here’s a bit of post-Katrina fallout I hadn’t heard about. Last year, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act, which requires local jurisdictions to include in their emergency evacuation plans means to evacuate pets along with people. As a result, counties around DC are coming up with all sorts of pet evacuation contingencies, [...]
More »Saluting the Hardest Working Men in DC
Photo by DC Metroblogger Yeah, so they wake you up at 6am on trash day. Or worse they skip you and your back yard stinks for the weekend. But what a foul city we would have without these pillars of urban civilization? Garbage Collectors, the Trash Man, Waste Removal Technicians. The men (and maybe women) [...]
More »Big Painted Velvet…Karl Rove?!
What a strange town this is, sometimes. There really isn’t a word of how strange this one is, though. I know you want a Velvet Karl Rove painting. Right now, the bid’s at $41 for this American Masterpiece. Go make a bid and give the karl your love. This post appeared in its original form [...]
More »Giant thinks we’re stupid
Yep, it’s your opportunity to SAVE WITH YOUR BONUS CARD. Normally $6, a bundle of firewood is available for 2 for $12. Oh wait, that deal expired on 2/15. Sorry, you’re back to paying $6 a bundle. Maybe they mean SAVE your brain cells and don’t think about how moronic this is? This post appeared [...]
More »Water Fountains Off – I am Parched!
Photo by DC Metroblogger Do you enjoy long walks around the National Mall? Or, like me, do you run the Mall? On your sojourns do you expect to find water fountains that work? Free thirst-quenching refreshment ready for your consumption? Well don’t expect it anytime soon. As I learned this weekend, the water fountains on [...]
More »GW Rowing To Be College Co-Ed Champs
Photo by DC Metroblogger Now this is a hot sight on a cold day: GW’s women rowing team readying for a Potomac thaw. Maybe that explains today’s warm Al Gore Spring feel? No matter what scientists say, these sweaty hotties do have atmospheric effects. They had an entire oggle deck of fans drooling from across [...]
More »Absolutely Fabulous
This photo by Flickrite cornflakegirl does it all for me, but I’m guessing it might rub some people the wrong way. The grit is just pouring out of my computer screen on this one, and my eyes don’t know where to look next. The lipstick on “her” cigarette, the ash fighting for its life against [...]
More »Satellite Monopoly, or Stern Returning to D.C.?
I’m sure many of the wired in folks caught that XM Radio and Sirius are planning to merge… but how does it affect the media market in D.C.? Will D.C. loose it’s new media muscle to New York, or will, if approved by the FCC and SEC, provide for growth in this rather odd media [...]
More »So How’d You Celebrate President’s Day?
So, with a holiday most associated with weird sales at the mall and made up special deals at auto dealerships.. how did you, the loyal DC Metblogs reader, celebrate President’s Day? Gen. George Washington is celebrating his 275th birthday this Thursday, and Mount Vernon is gussying itself up for the occasion. This past Sunday, an [...]
More »Excessive? Sounds about right to me.
photo courtesy of The Opus Although Wayan has privately begged the rest of us to leave the car&snow bitching behind after this weekend, lest we become “MetroDriverBitching DC blog” I am going to throw this one last one out there. The Post ran an article yesterday on the “McMissile” case, a cute little term to [...]
More »Celebrate The Presidents: Millard Fillmore
Today is Presidents Day, and as a result, many area businesses, including the Federal Government, are closed, and this is one of those rare late winter three day weekends. That is, unless you work somewhere that only offer the Original Six holidays, in which case you’re cursing the rest of the non-working populous today. The [...]
More »Last Chance: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006
Today is your last opportunity to see this year’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition features the work of 51 artists selected as finalists in the Portrait Gallery’s first national portrait competition. My favorite is the Olmec inspired Large Head by Nina Levy: Now just imagine this work as she [...]
More »Check out those glutes… directly
photo courtesy of BODIES Great news – the BODIES exhibit is coming to our area in April and it’ll be in the old Newseum space in Rosslyn. The Post article about it was filled with blah-blah-blah about the controversy that never seems to die down around the various polymer-preserved bodies shows, but what you should [...]
More »Sondheim obits
I caught the obituary for Walter Sondheim Jr in Friday’s Post, but I was just reminded of it by an entry in a weekly email newsletter that I get called This Is True. True’s Publisher, Randy Cassingham, runs a weekly bit at the end of it which he calls his “honorary unsubscribe,” where he pays [...]
More »How did we miss this?
I was looking for a link so I could talk briefly about the upcoming BODIES exhibit in the old Newseum space and came across this story from January. D.C. police believe a naked construction worker who fell to his death this week slipped and fell four stories down an elevator shaft. Joseph Oliver, 23, of [...]
More »National Zoo Asian Trail Exhibit Now Open
Photo by DC Metroblogger Just in time for a winter wandering, the Asia Trail at the National Zoo is now open. Feel free to gawk at the seven Asian species shivering in the cold: sloth bears fishing cats red pandas a Japanese giant salamander clouded leopards Asian small-clawed otters and giant pandas No word yet [...]
More »Another Fatal Bus Accident
Last night in Southeast DC, a woman in her 20s was fatally struck by a W2 bus, bringing the number of fatal bus accidents involving WMATA to three in 2007, and to four within 8 months. The accident earlier in the week that claimed the lives of two Alexandria women prompted WMATA’s new general manager [...]
More »Happy Chinese New Year!
Photo by DC Metroblogger Happy Year of the Pig! Tomorrow starts the Chinese New Year and as you can see, Tom is all excited. He is licking 10 year baijao – Chinese moonshine – as part of his NYE party How might you celebrate the Lunar New Year tonight? This post appeared in its original [...]
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