Archive for March, 2007
Happiness is Baltika Beer @ Domku
Photo by DC Metroblogger
It is my first time at Domku and I am ecstatic. My new local has Baltika beer, my drunken joy from Russia.
The interior matches the beer selection. Odd tables and mis-matched chairs give a funky, fun vibe. The crowd is a little too Tryst for me but [...]
The best $5 you’ll spend this year
I realized last night I’d completely dropped the ball on this – The Studio Theater is doing a companion reading to their play The Pillowman, called Nightmares and Pillow Tales. I’ll endeavor to write up my experience at the Pillowman this weekend, but you’ve got several more weeks to catch it, wheras these [...]
More »Calling All Pirates and Ninjas.
I realize that this is practically no notice, but there is a public call out for pirates and ninjas to show up at Whitlow’s on Wilson tonight between 5:30pm and 9pm. Consider this your warning that Clarendon could be the flashpoint for the greatest conflict of all time.
The Call Reads:
I have a [...]
No Tunnel for Tysons
Sorry tunnel-lovers, it’s gonna be above ground. Virginia has signed up Bechtel for between $2.4 and $2.7 Billion to do the Metro work out to Dulles, and all the plans currently are for above ground rail, which would allow them to keep the $900M in federal funding promised to the group for the [...]
More »Dangerous choice
The risk of going about your day in your PJs is that some obnoxious blogger will make fun of you for it. However this is not one of those situations – personally I’d be happy to go about in a torn t-shirt and my gym shorts all the time, much to the [...]
More »I Wanna See a Wookie!
Does this Matches ad make you jealous? Don’t you wish it was you who “let the Wookie win”? Especially if you were a young’in being hunted by an older woman in black. Grrrr!
This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs
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Fare Hike Gone. Kinda.
Don’t worry transit-riding folks, your fares aren’t going up. Well, at least not until Summer, anyway, when they may go up by an amount tied to cost of living factors like the CPI. Instead of infrequent large hikes, we’re going to get used to bi-annual or quarterly hikes in the fares. Instead [...]
More »good for my morale, bad for my ass
Ollie’s… Olley?
Originally uploaded by tiffany bridge.
I just realized this morning that my new job is just across the intersection from Ollie’s Trolley. (No, not this location, the other one. But that one doesn’t photograph as well.)
This is going to be very bad for my cholesterol. [...]
Time to Buy the Jefferson
Photo by DC Metroblogger
Check out who is selling off everything this weekend: the Jefferson Hotel.
Like the St Regis sale, expect long lines and frantic people. Liquidations bring out the crazy in otherwise normal shoppers.
Now that I have an empty house to fill on the cheap, I might just get a little [...]
Tickets are here!
Ticket are here!
Originally uploaded by tbridge.
Well, I picked up my Nationals season tickets tonight from our friends in Reston who are the drop box for the Nats mail. Adam and Lynne gleefully handed over our two seats as well as our opening day seats. Driving [...]
More »Annual driving reminders
photo courtesy of gmeyervanvoorthuijse
It seems that it is once again time for me to remind some of you about certain driving facts, as they relate to the laws in MD, DC, VA, and as to my personal behavior.
One, it is permissible to turn right on a red [...]
missed connections – tequila girl
You: Young woman, late twenties, outside the entrance to the Mayflower Hotel. Black business suit and heels. Black wheeled suitcase, black laptop bag over your shoulder with a Texas flag luggage tag. In your other hand: A mostly empty bottle of Patron.
Me: Young woman, late twenties, walking past the entrance to the [...]
Snack Time
Think fast DC. It’s 2:00 in the morning on a Saturday night. You just polished off 10 beers with your friends at Lucky Bar. While your goal was to meet some hottie, well, it just didn’t happen, even with those extremely thick beer goggles you have on. Your friends are in [...]
More »A Wall Goes Down
By the Metro escalators at the Union Station 1st St NE entrance, for several months now, a large enclosure of wood panels has blocked the gap between the escalators and the entrance to Amtrak HQ. This week I noticed that the walls are finally gone, and once again foot traffic is free to pass [...]
More »DC Media Makers Meets Tonight at RFD
DC Media Makers will meet tonight for their monthly social night at RFD near Gallery Place. This is a great group of folks, dedicated to videoblogging, podcasting and other Internet media-related topics.
DC Media Makers meets every other Thursday, alternating between the type of social gathering that is happening tonight and then meeting for discussion and [...]
Metrobus Madness
So has anyone determined yet what type of extra training the Metrobus drivers are going to have to complete because of the recent accidents and fatalities since the beginning of the year?
This subject came to mind just this morning as I was driving along M Street and bus #4322 (DC license plate number B37176) ran [...]
MC Rove?!
Well, if your collection wasn’t complete without a velvet Karl Rove, then you clearly need to see the video from last night’s Press Correspondent’s Dinner, featuring the cast of Who’s Line is it Anyway, and MC Rove. Now, Yahoo video sucks, because you can’t just link to the player for whatever reason, so, read [...]
More »I Miss WMATA Escalator Etiquette
Photo by DC Metroblogger
This is the escalator scene at the Austin Convention Center during SEPG 2007, everyone standing on the left.
I never realized how fierce we maintain a stand-to-the-right rule on Metrorail, or how much I enjoy the ability to tackle stairs at my own frantic pace, until this sight confronted [...]
Street Level Exodus?
Does anyone know what’s going on in Clarendon above Highland? It seems that every storefront between Orpheus Records and the Kabob Bazaar is now shut, and the whole area looks like a scene out of a bad union-strike movie set in West Virginia rather than just blocks away from some of the hottest nightlife [...]
More »Arlington’s $10 Compost Bins
Spring has sprung and that means it’s time to get those bulbs, seeds and saplings in the ground. That garden’s not going to tend itself, as my father might remind me if I were still 15 and playing the Dead Kennedys as loud as I could. Back then I didn’t know composting from Jello Biafra’s [...]
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