Archive for November, 2007
Dark Red Line Train
This was Metro Center last night — a train on the Shady Grove side of the Red Line had apparently lost power and was emptied and pulled out of service at the very peak of rush hour, in the very middle of the whole system. If you look closely at the photo you’ll see that [...]
More »LaRouchies
Here’s something we just don’t see as often as we used to in DC: LaRouchies handing out their Master’s literature, singing baroque choruses and casting the requisite aspersions on Cheney, Gore, Rohatyn, and the British monarchy. The night I took this photo it was just one guy, giving out EIR magazines muttering something about Pelosi [...]
More »Thanksgiving Travel Troubles
Wayan’s DC Photos If you are leaving for Thanksgiving tonight from National Airport, do not fret about security lines. There are none. Betrothed Butterbean and I waltzed right up to the TSA security theatre, who prompty yanked my love out of line for an expired license. After a tearfull repose we arrived at the gate [...]
More »The gun case will be heard
SCOTUSBlog reports that – somewhat to the surprise of some people who think the Roberts-led court avoids doing anything of substance – the Supremes have indeed agreed to hear DC’s appeal on the ruling that struck down the gun ban. So, if you were waiting at the city limits with an arsenal you planned on [...]
More »Kogod Courtyard Opening
There was music, there was juggling, there was magic, there were Lite-brites and Warhol and collage and Marilyn Monroe and beads and Charlie Chaplin and festive hats and a generally fun time at the grand opening of the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Reynolds Center. My wife and I sauntered over there Sunday after church [...]
More »Nice parking job, asshat.
Nice parking job, asshat. Originally uploaded by tbridge. If you wonder why I hate DC cabbies, look no further than this empty Executive Cab parked in front of a fire hydrant right on Dupont Circle. There are some rules that are so completely universal, I lose all sympathy for people who break them. This is [...]
More »More on the Homeless Protestors
Giant Rat Originally uploaded by tbridge. Wednesday night, as Tiff and I were driving to a birthday dinner at Liberty Tavern, we heard this piece on NPR about our favorite group of homeless people employed as protestors. My favorite section of the article was this one: Most people who pass the picket line don’t look [...]
More »Who says the law is boring?
The always awesome SCOTUSBlog has a post up talking about the cases the Supremes will likely decide whether or not to hear on the 30th. We’ve talked about the DC gun ban potentially coming before them, but there’s another local case with potentially nationwide implication: a Baltimore incident that will dictate how far into your [...]
More »Geek vs. Blogger Meetup Madness
Wayan’s DC Photos This is what happens when you mix geeks in love with the XO laptop and bloggers envious of the clock-stopping technology: a laptop wrestle at the bar. Luckily, the OLPC computer is designed to survive rough abuse just like this and it meshed right through the mash up. Despite the fistacuffs, my [...]
More »Barry camp states opposition to practing what he preaches
In a very funny followup to the whole silly Barry-Page kerfuffle, local Mike Licht has gotten told to buzz off and quit emailing… Barry’s communications director Andre Johnson of ProImage Communications. My favorite part of the exchange is when Johnson tells Licht “I have never heard of you and truly don’t understand why I am [...]
More »No movement on the DC gun appeals
SCOTUSBlog reported earlier that the Supremes made no mention of the various outstanding appeals. The Orders List contained no mention of either the District of Columbia’s appeal (07-290) or a cross-petition by challengers to the city’s flat ban on private possession of handguns (07-335). The next date for possible action on these cases is likely [...]
More »A Steel Cage Match We’d Like to See: Tim Page vs. Marion Barry
One’s a drug-addled politician clinging to public office, the other is a classical music critic for the Washington Post. But it seems that when they get together, there’s sparks! Apparently, Barry’s staff sent Page (who I will remind you is a music critic) a press release about the councilman’s support/non-support of the hospital property in [...]
More »Virginia’s Governor inches into reality, Senate resists
Virginia Governor Kaine has decided to stop throwing good money after bad dumb and has cut a $275,000 expenditure that matched Federal funding for some abstinence-only sex education programs. The Post article on the matter is a cavalcade of baseless blanket statements, irrelevant observations, and poor reasoning. There’s a side order of political incompetence & [...]
More »OLPC News Washington DC Meetup on Wednesday
OLPC Children’s Machine XO Are you excited about a “$100 laptop” for children? Have you heard about One Laptop Per Child? Might you even be a Give One Get One participant? Then you’ll be excited to learn that Wednesday night you’ll have the chance to play with a XO-1 laptop at the much-anticipated: OLPC News [...]
More »While we wait for the Supreme Court…
H&K .40 compact Originally uploaded by seanbonner. …let’s talk about the DC gun ban, shall we? Pictured here is Metroblogging-founder Sean Bonner’s H&K .40 compact. He would be legally prohibited from keeping this firearm, even in its unloaded state, if he lived in DC, instead of on the mean streets of Silver Lake. The Post [...]
More »Metro hearings start tonight
Speaking of mass transit woes and fools, tonight starts the rounds of public hearings where you can weight in on WMATA issues. Dr Gridlock lists here the places and times, but for quick reference: Bechtel Conference Center in Reston, tonight Nov 13th Metro headquarters in the District, Nov 14th Montgomery County Council Building in Maryland, [...]
More »Hubris
This morning I decided I’d try a different route to the office and, rather than walk/jog/rollerblade/segway the distance to the metro station I’d instead catch the bus a few blocks in the other direction. What the hell – it’ll keep me from having to change lines by going straight to Rosslyn. Well, it was a [...]
More »Popemobile Coming to DC!
The last time I really had much to do with the Catholic Church that I was raised in, I was brand-new to DC, and living in Alexandria. I went to St. Anthony of Padua in Bailey’s Crossroads, and I sang in the choir. At least, I did, until the day the priest got up and [...]
More »Edward II at the Harman
image courtesy of the Shakespeare Theater Company As Jenn mentioned, she and I got to go see the Shakespeare Theater’s production of Edward II on Friday evening. If you’re looking for a review in short: MAN do you have the wrong writer! Uh.. I mean, if you’re looking for a review in short, I recommend [...]
More »DC DMV to add SmarTrip to Licenses, remove in-person parking appeals
While many news outlets are expressing dismay over the DMV’s desire to eliminate in-person appeals for parking tickets. Now, despite the hyperbole of all the people shouting about their rights, the DMV will still be allowing for Mail-in Appeals and E-mail Appeals for parking tickets, so it’s not like you can’t contest your latest parking [...]
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