Archive for July, 2007

Learn to Light

It’s one thing to shoot with natural lighting or with a simple flash, but when you start to get into portrait photography you realize you’ve barely scratched the surface. Strobe or continuous? Modeling lights? Umbrellas or soft boxes? Pocket Wizards? Muslin? Am I speaking Greek to you? Well [...]

DC Gum Busters

After a long week chewing through work, do you fell stuck in your job? Like your efforts bubble up, only to pop? Do you want something more elastic? More cleansing? How about Gum Busting?

Yeah, you’re not seeing things – there really is a job, a need for industrial bubble gum removal. [...]

The Great Equalizer… The Restroom

While at the Kabuki at the Warner Theatre last night (which was excellent, even though I didn’t understand a word of Japanese), I had felt that nature called during intermission, and wandered to the less crowded restroom in the basement. Besides the overpowering odor seemingly seeping from the tiles (I thought this was a “high [...]

Escape From D.C.

No, this isn’t really the next John Carpenter film with Snake Plissken taking aim at the White House and Congress (although, I wished it was). But it’s about mid-season for all the D.C. natives to head out of town just to catch a breather from the madness that is life in the Capitol Region. [...]

The Dirtiest Jobs in DC?

I’m addicted to Mike Rowe and his Discovery Channel show, Dirty Jobs. They’ve supposedly “searched this great land of ours” for people performing “jobs that make civilized society possible”. He’s hit Baltimore (Glen Burnie – McShane Bell Foundry) for a bell maker and groundskeeper for the Bowie Baysox, but no love for DC?

What do [...]

Fringe-ish: Reefer Madness

photo courtesy of Studio Theater

We’re going to see Reefer Madness tonight at Studio as part of our Fringe outings, but unlike most of the other performances it’s not limited to a few showings. It opened in early July and we’re entering the last week of showings now [...]

Dude, not Candey Hardware, too…

Right there on 18th Street, just half a block off Connecticut sits Candey’s Hardware. It’s one of those almost impossibly cool places in the District, much like its neighbor, the 18th St. Lounge. A little tiny hardware story in the middle of the big city. The Post has a long elegy to [...]

Where Do The Candidates Stand on DC Voting Rights?

With the Voting Rights Bill unlikely to make the Senate Floor before the long August Recess, you might well be wondering what this is all about. But, we were thinking it might be good to see where the various presidential candidates stand with regard to DC’s Voting Rights:
For the Democrats:
Barack Obama (Senator, IL) For [...]

Fringe: Super Secret Show location change

I suppose there’s some irony in this, but the Fringe show called “Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey present:
The Super Secret Show” has had a venue change, as well as a different time for all but 1 show, potentially resulting in people (like myself) with tickets showing up [...]

Wait, they can do What?!

I was headed to lunch in Old Town today, when I heard the craziest thing on the radio. Now, I realize that just because I heard it on the radio, it doesn’t automatically have to be true, but would Kojo Nnamdi really lie to me? I don’t think so. The subject in [...]

Rumor’s Disgusting Doorway

Wayan’s DC Photos
I love my new work hood, 19th and M Streets NW.
There are a great number of entertainment options just steps from my door. But stepping by Rumor’s door, I looked down and almost jumped off the sidewalk.
Just look at that gross-ass spillage from too many drunk Bob’s and Betty’s [...]

Drunken, Sweaty, Belligerent Guy on Metro: Please Move Away

I recently had a too-close encounter with a guy who stunk of liquor and sweat on the metro. The other day, this fellow was complaining about how crowded Metro Center was during rush hour.
“Is it always like this?” he asked to nobody in particular.
“Yes,” a woman answered. “But today’s not so bad. Sometimes people push [...]

Talk To Me… No, Really…

I’ve been wanting to post about this film for a few months now, namely since seeing the trailer and also realizing it’s a film about an interesting time in DC, as well as the local celebrity that spawned it. The film is “Talk To Me” and stars Don Cheadle (“Hotel Rwanda”), Martin Sheen (“The West [...]

Concerned Citizens’ Brigade To Form in VA

Not content with just preventing gays from marrying in Virginia, a group of bored conservatives are working to make marriage, and divorce, harder in Virginia. They’re working to institute policy to bring down the Virginia divorce rate, which is just 3.85 people per 1,000. State involvement in relationships isn’t the way, though, in [...]

An evening of champagne

photo courtesy of GiraMondo

Myself, my darling girlfriend, and our friend Katie spent almost two hours last night sampling eight sparking wines at GiraMondo’s “Wines of Summer: Champagne and Other Bubbles” event. True to his word, host Laurent Guinand provided a range of sparking wine from around the [...]

Gyros, Mon Cheri

So this sign in the window of Mon Cheri Cafe in Georgetown advertises gyros, with a little pronunciation guide underneath saying ‘Yee-ros.’ But when I went in for lunch once and asked for a ‘YEE-RO,’ the guy said “Ok, one ‘JAI-ROW’ coming up!”
Help me. I am so confused.
Mon Cheri Cafe, by the way, while [...]

Dryness and Drought

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is asking federal authorities to declare Maryland in a state of emergency drought, as 17 counties statewide are in a moderate drought and and four Southern Maryland counties are in a severe drought (check the red spots on this map, that’s of 8-12 inches shortfall of rain).
Farmers in Eastern Maryland have [...]

DC could learn a thing from Tijuana

I’m not sure where I came across this artist’s work, offiically, but the DC Department of Transportation (as well as other surrounding communities) could learn a thing or two about the project started in 2005 by UCSD art student, Shannon Spanhake… planting pothole gardens.

Why fill the negative space with soul sucking and uninteresting asphalt [...]

Over Engineering Your Morning Cup-O-Joe

Now, I always was thinking, what if the Germans turned their expertise in building the perfect automobile towards other domestic tools of the trade… it seems that they also need a little “pick me up” in the morning, too.. Rube Goldberg style.

I think this site remains in it’s original German due to a [...]

Avoid DCA to ATL Unused Icons

Photo by DC Metroblogger

This image of the departure screen at Atlanta’s airport perfectly describes the DCA to ATL experience: unused icons on the desktop.
The first unused icon would be one for customer service. Delta gate agents here treat flyers like pests, quite unlike the Delta Shuttle employees.
Food would be the next [...]