Archive for February, 2008
The Morning News: Snow Day? Edition
February is rearing her ugly side again, and may leave an inch of snow on us today, starting in about an hour or so. So, because DC can’t handle more than a single flake without some sort of traffic casuality, get ready for a crappy evening rush. DC Loses $250,000 in Emergency Radios Apparently, the [...]
More »Spring is Coming.
There are few sweeter words than “Pitchers and Catchers Report Today.” As Andy Ihnatko said the other day, seeing the team’s gear come off the plane in Florida is like the joy of a three year old espoused by a big, bright floating red ballon. This is the Lent of baseball. We wait in patient [...]
More »Jeremy Fisher at DC9 Tonight
If you’re jonesin’ for some live music tonight, check out Jeremy Fisher (Warning. Plays Music. Loudly.) at DC9. Doors are at 7. Make sure to bring a little extra emo with you, as the pictures on his website indicate that you may wish to cut yourself after the show because no one understands you, man! [...]
More »The Morning News: Schizophrenic Winter Edition
Yesterday was phenomenal, at least the first half. I hope you all had a delightful President’s Day. We took the day off here, we’re sorry if you had to work and we left you with nothing to read. Such is the way. We’ll try to make up for it today. Thousands of Gallons of Diesel [...]
More »Meter Feeders No More?
<img src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/228162404_afc74c99ff_m.jpg” alt=”by Daquella manera” photo courtesy of Daquella manera So according to an article in today’s WaPo, the District is looking to stop ‘meter feeders’ who plague our fair capital’s streets. With ‘mobile camera eyes’ that frankly, to me look more like a Terminator’s pre-proto prototype. (And yes, I just watched T3 the other [...]
More »Mortified returns and you won’t be going
image courtesy of Bruckerrib Well, probably not anyway. Tickets are sold out and they claim your odds of getting one of a few spare slots at the door are poor. All is not lost, however, as the Mortified website has a fair amount of free material for you to sample and determine if you want [...]
More »Grime! In DC!
photo credit: sexyfitsum, from the Metroblogging DC pool “Grime! In DC!” Shortly before midnight Sunday night, that was the Twitter my boyfriend posted. About two hours later, as we were getting ready to leave Jimmy Valentines Lonely Hearts Club, he posted again. “My hair is full of ceiling debris shaken loose by bass.” High praise, [...]
More »Coming soon to be a security guard near you
Further proving the theory that bad behavior caught on tape once likely indicates a hundred incidents not recorded, ABC news has managed to come up with more tape of infamous Baltimore cop Salvatore Rivieri abusing the public. Yep, he’s wearing the shirt that says BALTIMORE’S FINEST on the back in this one too. Billy Friebele [...]
More »Nationals Screw Small Plan Ticket Holders on Opening Night
I’m a baseball apologist. There, I said it. I love the game, I love what it means to my family, I love what it means to my baseball playing friends. I’ve come to love the Nationals, our newest sports franchise, despite their abysmal record and the creaky stands and crotchety ushers out at RFK. But [...]
More »Tragedy from afar
<img src=”http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1254/821501931_574b36e4d3_m.jpg” alt=”NIU Student Center and MLK Sculpture” photo courtesy of I’ve Gone Slightly Mad… News from my alma mater last night threw me into a lot of shock and put quite the damper on an otherwise wonderful Valentine’s Day. There are a lot of kids from my family’s friends (my family resides in Naperville) [...]
More »The Morning News: Love Hangover Edition
Good morning DC, I hope you’re all blissful this morning. Going to be downright pleasant for February out there, high in the low 50s before a weekend that may require an extra blanket. Metro Considers Large Plasmas for Stations Metro’s giving a good hard look at plasma screens for all the platforms, and if you’ve [...]
More »A Tale of Valentine’s Woe: The City Tavern Club
Let me just start with the good part. My good friend Mike got engaged to his lovely girlfriend Monica tonight at Paolo’s in Georgetown. I got to watch this week as my friend went through a lot of the same steps that I did two and a half years ago, visiting the jeweler (Boone & [...]
More »NMNH Butterflies and Plants Exhibit Opening Tomorrow
Get your cameras ready, local photographers. A new exhibit, Butterflies and Plants: Partners in Evolution, will be opening tomorrow at the National Museum of Natural History. According to their website, the flippy-flappies and the greeny-weenies will be hosted in “one hall, two exhibits”. The first exhibit, Partners in Evolution, is free just like every other [...]
More »Valentine’s Madness – V-Day D-Day
Jonny Goldstein‘s heart-shaped pancake Yep, this is it, folks. If you haven’t bought a gift by now, probably you are scrambling and sweating or else are simply single and glad to not have to scramble and sweat. Don’t forget the meaning of this day, though. The whole idea is to show your love, not to [...]
More »The Morning News: We Love You Edition
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. We know that not everyone has a special someone, but today, know that we here at Metblogs love you. Yes, even you creepy stalker girl. And you, too, Poo Poo. Another Crazy Lawsuit Except that this time, it’s Best Buy being sued, and not a Dry Cleaners. A woman is suing [...]
More »Lying with pictures
I was annoyed by the Express’ crappy headline writing, but who knew the big-boy paper had retarded photo editors? How else to explain this article on the passage of the FISA bill with included bans on waterboarding, accompanied by a photo of long-time torture opponent John McCain. As he stridently clenches his fist, below is [...]
More »Good Luck to Murky Baristas!
Mocha Art Originally uploaded by tbridge. I just wanted to give a shout-out to my friends at Murky Coffee who will be competing in this weekend’s Free Pour Latte Art Competition happening on Saturday at the Washington Convention Center as part of the Coffee Fest trade show at the Convention Center. Good luck Allie, Anne, [...]
More »In the Land of Ice and Snow…
<img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2223/2189700328_47192ba846_m.jpg” alt=”Olaf Kolzig during a recent practice” photo courtesy of _MG_3044 It’s cold, icy and snowy-ish outside. Ready for some red-hot hockey? Yes, yes, I know – me, a diehard Penguins fan blogging about the Caps. Well, hey – though I love to hate on the local hockey boys, I love and respect the [...]
More »How about health insurance? Or at least penicillin.
A friend of mine sent me this but suggested I might want to check with my darling girlfriend first. I told him I didn’t think she was skilled enough to do virus repair. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Charity Yoga
Georgetown Yoga is offering you the opportunity to accomplish three goals in a single Sunday afternoon: take a yoga class, make a donation to a worthwhile charity, and help someone move forward in their career. A reasonably productive hour! The charity yoga classes offer students who are working through the Yoga Works yoga teacher training [...]
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