Archive for July, 2007
And we’re off for the bubbly
photo courtesy of GiraMondo The day has arrived – an evening out for myself and my darling girlfriend where we’ll sip a half-dozen varieties of champagne and learn more about the bubbly than we ever thought we’d know. Tickets are still available on their website for fellow fans of sparkling wine (*ahem* Jenn) if you [...]
More »Fringe: The Eddie Lounge Show
photo courtesy of Eddie Lounge My Fringe outing last night was stag – I couldn’t convince my darling girlfriend that three shows in thirty hours was a good plan. But how could I, a stout Richard Cheese fan, miss The Eddie Lounge Show? The show’s a good, simple time, a dozen or so song performances [...]
More »iPhone Gets iHacked
Everyone and their grandma is always giving Microsoft a hard time about their security (or lack thereof). Why? Because their software is used across the globe more than any other software, making it a prime target for hackers. I mean why would you try to hack Linux when only a handful of people are using [...]
More »Metro Unveils New Online Station Maps Powered By Google
Metro’s unveiled new online maps for their stations, which include local business listings, all powered by Google Maps (It’s the best. True that, Double True.) Now you can see restaurants, banks, grocery stores, hotels, and museums near any metro station in the system, which can be mighty handy for printing out before you head to [...]
More »4th Annual Sunset Cinema Scheduled in Falls Church
Creepy-ass Flying Monkey For three Fridays in August, the City of Falls Church will host their 4th Annual Sunset Cinema, a free movie shown at Cherry Hill Park, located at 312 Park Avenue. This year’s series is entitled “Cutesy Shit and Flying Monkeys.” Well, maybe not, but that’s what I would call it. Here is [...]
More »Kabuki @ The Warner Theatre
Anybody here into ancient Japanese theatre arts and music?… C’mon, raise your hand, I see you. So Heisei Nakamura-Za Kabuki is in DC this Thursday at the Warner Theatre downtown (as if it was anywhere else). I’ve kind of been enchanted with, at least, the music that could be heard, since it’s not ethnically from [...]
More »Trader Joe’s Time for Line Trade
Wayan’s Washington DC Photos Do you like some Trader Joe’s tasty treats? Do you live in the District? Then do you wait in this long-ass line for your love? I was shocked, no appalled, that any sane human, much less time-starved Washingtonians would stand for the three curves deep, twenty minute long line at Trader [...]
More »Resloved
At right, the scene at Metro Center, Red Line to Shady Grove, Monday night. On the PID screens, train arrival times were blank, alternating with the message: RESIDUAL DELAYS, RED LINE Minor delays on Red Line to Shady Grove due to an earlier train malfunction which has now been resloved. That crowd didn’t look too [...]
More »When One “Big Bite” Is One Too Many
Now, this is one of the times where I wished I had my camera out upon first viewing, but on my return trip (I had forgotten my building pass and wallet at home) the flash mob of painters vans, gardening and landscape trucks, and contractors pick-ups were long gone. However, the sight was one to [...]
More »Why The Sites “You” Care About Are Down…
Coming from an extensive IT background, and now, in the position of supporting a company’s 365/24/7 environment, I see now “what not to do”. Now, many of you may be jonesing to order Netflix (supposedly down due to a software upgrade) or trying to blog your way to heaven (LiveJournal or TypePad), buy or trade [...]
More »Jonny Goldstein, Web Video Pioneer
Jonny Goldstein froma recent shoot I did with him Local video deity Jonny Goldstein is doing something really cool on his blog. Jonny is the type of guy who isn’t satisfied with things working okay the way they are and is always pushing the envelope to see what’s next. His latest thing is doing live [...]
More »Free Our Streets Continued Success
Twenty days ago, over 140 photographers gathered in Downtown Silver Spring, motivated to declare photographic freedom, the visualization of their First Amendment rights on Ellsworth Drive. This public street, leased to PFA Silver Spring LC and the Peterson Companies for $1 per year, and according to those very same developers, restricted to approved actions and [...]
More »Potter Fans Swarm Metro
If you aren’t reading the new Harry Potter book, you might want to question whether you are Metro Chic. This morning as I was riding to work, I couldn’t even count the number of people who had likely lifted the book from the kids for the morning commute. The train was almost completely devoid of [...]
More »Anime, aniyou?
photo courtesy of Megadem While some of us were fringe-a-paloozing others were dressing up as their favorite animated character and prowling the inner harbor. Another July, another Otakon in Baltimore. If you’ve never heard of it that’s not too surprising – not being a Japanese animation fan myself the only reason I know of it [...]
More »Passport Office Line: Now Empty
Can you imagine a block-long passport line? One that required Disney World-level crowd control lines? A wait so long, it drove people to visit an actual Post Office? You wouldn’t if you walked by the Passport Agency office on R Street NW today in Washington DC. Yep, empty. No more passport line photo sets needed [...]
More »Boomers And Others: Volunteer Fair July 25
Arlington is sponsoring a volunteer fair for Baby Boomers and other experienced adults. Are you a 50+ person who wants to give back to society somehow? Go check this out. When; Wednesday, July 25 from 10am to 12 noon Where: Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy Street in Ballston From the Arlington DHS site: As the [...]
More »Unions Support Higher Wages…(Except for their temporary employees)
The Post has finally picked up on the homeless protesters racket, focusing on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters and Joiners, who pay a group of homeless folks $8/hr to make a racket outside of various buildings with suites under construction by non-union shops. They show up, bang on buckets, shout about fair wages, and [...]
More »Review : Colin Hay @ The Birchmere
Much to my surprise at the other DC Metblog authors, very few of them have admittedly visited the Birchmere for concerts. However, the groups and other artists that tend to float through their roster are either for an older set or are not usually mainstream music genres. But, the venue remains one of the few [...]
More »Fringe: Cautionary Tales & Trixie Tickles
While I did a little eye-rolling waiting for the show to start, once “Cautionary Tales for Adults and the Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles” got going I didn’t have time to do much of anything but laugh. The long name is reflective of the fact that this is really two shows back to back. The [...]
More »Nude Zines
I was driving to an appointment on Sunday when I noticed a placard attached to a phone pole advertising the web site www.nudezines.com. No wonder, I thought, since I was right by Falls Church’s premiere porn palace. Then I noticed the rest of the ad – business cards, custom printing, brochures. Talk about cognitive dissonance [...]
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