Archive for October, 2007
Kz’s House of Talent Suckfest
On a Scale of Zero to Sucktacular, I would put Kz’s House of Talent near the top of that scale. Their “comedy contest” tonight at Floyd’s (the best description of Floyd’s is that it’s a TGI Fridays that’s had its soul sucked out) was the single biggest entertainment lie I’ve been told since they tried [...]
More »With Friends Protectors like these, who needs Enemies Criminals?
“A D.C. police officer confessed in court today that, while responding to a false alarm at a Northeast Washington home in August, he swiped the owner’s credit card from a credenza while she was gone and tried to rack up thousands of dollars in charges.” We’ve got enough problems in this town without the cops [...]
More »Porchless Petworth Eyesore
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse at the corner of Upshur Street and New Hampshire Avenue. That the Petworth Eyesore at 4143 New Hampshire Avenue NW couldn’t take it to that next level of ugly, it has. Petworth Eyesore Photos Look at the Petworth Eyesore now. Notice anything missing? Like say a [...]
More »Information superhighway robbery
photo via Consumerist Continuing my posting run of crap-I-saw-on-the-internet, Consumerist today has a post talking about a DC reader’s cellphone bill. They claim it’s a luxury tax, though considering that Fenty carries multiple cellular devices that seems not to jibe with his definition of “luxury.” A commenter on their thread says that it’s a straight [...]
More »Look! Up towards the sky!
Image lifted from the Guardian video If you’re not a regular Boing Boing reader you might not have seen this post linking to a Guardian video of Dutch magician Wouter Bijdendijk – in his stage persona of Ramana – supposedly levitating in front of the White House. Nothing on WaPo about it, or at least [...]
More »Motocycle Alley on M Street
Wayan’s DC Photos On any other day but today, I am always amazed at the number and variety of motorcycles lined up on M Street NW just before Connecticut Avenue. Like the motorcycle parking at McPherson Square, the M Street lot attracts all types of bikes, from crotch-rockets to scooterists. Enough kinetic sculptures to temp [...]
More »Ready for More Rain?
The good news is that rain is likely through the week till Saturday. The bad news is that rain is likely through the week till Saturday. The warmth of an oddly over-long October summer (not to be confused with The September that Never Ended) has finally given way to a slow-moving cold front coming up [...]
More »Code Pink Hands Get in Condi’s Face
Wonkette alerts us to a bloody-handed protester attempting to smear Condi Rice with fake blood just before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing today, only to be dragged off by security. This immediately got me wondering whether the protester in question, named Desiree Farooz, is local. A quick search shows that she isn’t, as she [...]
More »custom made from head to toe
Friend-of-MBDC Mike needs your help! He’s got a suit that needs to be altered by Saturday morning, preferably by a tailor in Northern Virginia (he lives in Falls Church), but DC is an option also if they’re especially fast. In a suit-oriented place like this, surely some of you have an opinion. Anyone have a [...]
More »Pantsgate Judge to Lose Bench?
Well, it’s really got to suck to be Roy Pearson. First, your pants gets lost, and you have to file a ridiculously wrong $54 million suit. Second, you go to trial, and lose, over that very same suit. Third, you may be out of a job entirely before long, thanks in now small part to [...]
More »Taxis Should Not be Social Welfare
I love Sam Smith’s “DC CITY DESK.” It’s a great shot of progressive thought into my email every week. Commentary on DC that usually finds me nodding my head in agreement. Well, except when it comes to the DC taxi system. Sam seems to forget, in his pro-cabbie missives, that taxicabs are not a welfare [...]
More »Not a Good Red Line Day
Double rush hour whammy on the Red Line tonight: Track flaws on a 39-foot section of rail necessitate reduced speeds between Medical Center and Friendship Heights, causing a mild cascade of delays in both directions. More urgently, smoke in Union Station prompted an evacuation and closure in both directions, with shuttle buses being called in [...]
More »Use the enemy’s weapons against them
image courtesy of WaPo No, this is not some uninformed anti-globalization rant. (side note: Firefox’s dictionary doesn’t have “globalization” – talk about blissful ignorance!) This is an anti-telephone rant. Specifically, telephone calls from WaPo. One of the few persistent conflicts my darling girlfriend and I have had through our relationship has been over one of [...]
More »My Very Own DC Kiss
I remember the first time I saw a sweet DC kiss. Last summer, a moving truck took a too-tight turn and ruined an Ohioan’s vacation. Then Brownpau saw a serious DC parking lot kiss, offender unknown. And who could forget the Metrobus DC kiss that sent passengers to the emergency room? Each time, I felt [...]
More »Dear Douchebags
World Bank IMF Protest Originally uploaded by isisDC. It wasn’t enough that you hit a woman in the head over the weekend with a brick? You had to go ruin the commute of half the city today? Due to your general asshattery, I extend my middle finger in your general direction. I am, apparently, not [...]
More »Panties for Peace
Many thanks to Kerry Howley for this item: Lanna Action for Burma is encouraging women around the world to send their panties to the Burmese* embassies in their countries as a means of protest against the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Why? Because the generals who make up the military junta that runs the country are [...]
More »Dousing IMF Protestations
Last night heralded the first skirmishes of the annual IMF/World Bank protests with DC’s first rain in months. And I think that was God sending a signal to the unwashed protesters: its time to get a life. How many years have there been protests? And what’s been the impact? From what I can tell, not [...]
More »There’s a story here somewhere
photo courtesy of the Arlington police While looking though some Arlington county RSS feeds I came across an entry titled “Free VIN Etching Event” where the entirety of the body was “The Arlington County Police Dept. and the Virginia State Police HEAT Program are sponsoring an auto theft deterrence event. Motorists can get their Vehicle [...]
More »Prince of Petworth Named Blogger of the Month
As part of the Washington Post trying to get more involved in the local blogging community, Marc Fisher (“Raw Fischer”) has named his first Blogger of the Month: Wayan’s Betrothed Prince of Petworth. Congrats to the Prince for being singled out for his “passion to make the place where he lives better”. Being featured by [...]
More »More Comcast duh
I hate to follow up the earlier feel-good with bitching but not so much that I’ll refrain, apparently. If for no other reason but to respond to Prontovega. Just minutes after I posted that, I got a call from an automated dialer system – Comcast, stating they had an urgent matter to discuss about my [...]
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