Archive for September, 2007
And God Said, “Let There Be Pavement.”
I may have questioned before as to where my tax dollars were exactly going. Well this summer I found out when they started repaving S street. What used to be like driving on the surface of the moon is now one sleek, smooth, stretch of pavement. Thanks, DC! Now when winter [...]
More »State Department Signage: Missing
Wayan’s DC Photos
I can understand the State Department wanting to keep a low profile, what with its shoddy Bush-led foreign policy. And I can even appreciate it not wanted to broadcast its location too far and wide.
But I have to say this crosses the line: erasing your name from the sign out [...]
Smithsonian Installing Trees
In case you, like me, were of a mind that trees are planted in museum atriums from seeds or tiny saplings and then allowed to grow and flourish over the course of decades, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s official blog Eye Level would like to disabuse us of that notion with this entry, “Picture This: [...]
More »Petworth Eyesore Doorway
Petworth Eyesore Photoset
Just when I didn’t think it could get any worse, the Petworth Eyesore took it to the next level.
Just take a close look at the front door. What was once a beautiful, arched two-door entrance is now a poor in-filled single door.
I really don’t know how much worse the builders [...]
Tenant Eviction in Columbia Heights
Now this is some cold-ass eviction. This is the street outside 2918 Sherman Avenue NW last night in Columbia Heights.
That mess on the street isn’t garbage, it’s the combined possessions of the tenants, or now ex-tenants, of what was their communal rooming house. Neighbours say that a contractor came by yesterday and had [...]
Timeless Anonymity
I see many shots of DC that are just that – shots of DC. The monuments, museums, and protests are all great things, and after all it’s easy to shoot what’s in your neighborhood. However I’m really impressed when I see a photo taken in our city that is timeless and that could [...]
More »Barracks Row Half-Price Wine Night
Are you headed to 8th Street SE today? Want the best happy hour deal around? Then check out Finn macCool’s Irish Publick House.
As the sign says, they have half-price bottles of wine at their Wednesday happy hour. And not just house wine, but any wine on their whole menu. Best off [...]
Protesting ANSWER’s Posters
Wayan’s DC Photos
Can I get a date check? Is it not September 19th? Four days and counting after the ANSWER anti-war protest march.
Isn’t it about time that these obnoxious yellow fliers are removed by the earnst protesters who blanketed our city with them?
I’ll even pay the postage to send every single [...]
DC voting post-mortem
The ingrate on the right is Senator Max Baucus, the lone Democrat to vote no on the bill. Personally that doesn’t mean much to me, but what does stick in my craw is that when he’s here in DC – according to Mark Plotkin – he resides in Georgetown. It burns my ass [...]
More »No Vote For DC. Not Ours.
Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, doing his best Scrooge impression, ended this term’s hope for a legislator for the District of Columbia, as today’s procedural vote for cloture failed 57-42. 60 votes in the affirmative were required to end debate on the floor and get the bill passed through the Senate and sent to committee [...]
More »Home Remodeling is a Daunting Task
When I was shopping for condos in late 2003, I had two options. Either buy a brand new place that required no work but more money up front, or buy a cheaper place that needed some remodeling done. Unfortunately I chose the latter option, but in hindsight I should have gone with the [...]
More »Passport Photos in Washington DC
That’s what I need, passport photos. As I am standing here in the passport line crowd control of M Street NW, waiting to renew my US passport.
But where can I get passport photographs in Washington DC? Who knows the passport agency rules on how to shoot and crop photographs? Who [...]
Car Free DC!
Well, were you car free on your morning commute? Did you pass Tommy Wells (Ward 6) Car Free Challenge? I know I did, I ran into work at my new job.
As I ran, I wondered how they came about naming today “CarFree DC Day”. Might they have read my “Good Idea: Car-free [...]
Nats Get First Crack at New Stadium
Much love to Nats Blogger Miss Chatter for blogging about her recent trip to see the Nats take BP at the new stadium:
I was walking down the road into left field and saw everyone, so froze and took video and photos from there. Wily Mo Pena hit a home run over the left field [...]
DC Protest Economics: Does DC Profit From Protests?
Protest signs DC made or bought?
What do you think the economic impact of ANSWER Coalition’s protest yesterday? How much money did Washington DC businesses and government gain from the protesters?
I’m sure that the hotels, buses, and vendors were happy with the protest influx. Also the sign makers, Port-a-let renters, and even the DC [...]
Shooting the Garden
Photo by Carl Weaver
I have had a great time with my garden recently and am slowly capturing some of it digitally as the harvest ripens and my green fruit starts to blush. The peppers, especially, have a really cool look about them. Each is shaped differently from the others, showing something of a personality and [...]
Damnable Kickball
Kickball. Fun pastime or Scourge of the District? To hear the Anti Yuppie Kickball Guerilla Front tell it, you’d think that Kickball was the favored activity of all manner of evils from Napoleon’s Imperialism and European Fascism through to modern Islamist Terrorism. Check out their charge to battle:
Think of those eyes now [...]
Was ANSWER’s Anti-War Protest Effective?
That’s the question I ask thinking about today’s march on the Capitol – was it effective?
First, did “thousands” of protesters change anyone’s mind? From what Michelle Boorstein says, I don’t think so:
Things got ugly for several blocks along Pennsylvania Ave., where war supporters, held back by metal barricades, wore T-shirts, held signs and [...]
Today’s Other Protest: Abortion Protesters Downtown
Wayan’s DC Photos
Today there was a whole other protest. It wasn’t about war, though the opposing sides are just as bitter. There were accusations of killing, death, even murder. And people did need escorts to keep fights at bay.
But this protest isn’t new, or even unique to DC. [...]
Hello from Chicago
I hadn’t intended to post to DC Metblogs while I was here in Chicago, but I spotted this old tug from Lakeshore drive yesterday when coming in from the airport. So today I walked down to Lake Michigan to get a better picture and noticed its registry location – home!
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