Archive for May, 2008
The Mall’s a Disgrace?
Someone, a while back, told me that unless you go before Congress and talk about every shitty thing that’s broken about even the best thing in the world, you’re going to come away with less money. So, that must be the strategy that Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton participated in yesterday when she suggested we should [...]
More »A Hunt tidbit
I haven’t written up our whole Hunt experience, but hopefully I’ll find time while it’s still semi-fresh in my mind; I think it would be interesting for those of you thinking of going (if there is a) next time to hear what it’s like in context, rather than just read the amazingly intimidating puzzles in [...]
More »Insight
Words of wisdom from a bar owner? I’m probably not the first to feel this way about a guy promoting mood-enhancing libations. But if you’re looking for an interesting and possibly mind-expanding conversation, try Commy at the Saloon on U Street. He’s something else—and you’ll enjoy good beer at the same time. Oh, turns out [...]
More »the year’s biggest art show, and more
I’ve been meaning to write about my Artomatic experience for a few days now. I biked over there this past weekend, not sure how long I’d stay but hoping I’d find it as laid back and welcoming as I did a couple of years ago, the last time I went. I wasn’t disappointed. What I [...]
More »Where to Live in DC?
Every year around this time, I get the wanderlust. Part of me thinks about moving off to another city, part of me thinks about moving into the District to become a formal “city mouse”. Not that I don’t love my current neighborhood, but part of me thinks that the District is where it’s at. So, [...]
More »It’s Not Easy Being Mean
Apparently President Bush may have actually lost money during his tenure in the white house. According to the Washington Post, his “financial fortunes appear to have declined over the past seven years, with his family assets dropping as low as $6.5 million”. So let’s see, he “won” two elections but then lost a bunch of [...]
More »Police Required to Rehire 17 Fired Officers
17 officers fired from the Metropolitan Police Department for misconduct were rehired by the department, because of bureaucratic failures within the internal affairs department. They missed a deadline or two, and as a result, arbitrators and the courts have forced Chief Lanier to rehire 17 officers not fit for duty. They were fired initially for [...]
More »Caesar, Antony, and Cleopatra : together at the Harman
What can I tell you about The Shakespeare Theater Company‘s productions of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra? You don’t come here for Shakespeare criticism and I’m not up to the challenge. There’s some things to say about the players on stage – Suzanne Bertish is spot-on, Andrew Long, Aubrey K. Deeker, Dan Kremer and [...]
More »Your Purse Dog Is Welcome.
Have we really reached that point, DC, where we’re closer to LA than we’d like to admit? Has the purse-dog revolution finally reached its apex that the little creatures are now welcome inside various business establishments? I always thought we were more of a golden-lab or maybe a basset hound or beagle kind of town, [...]
More »Swell Season At Meyerhoff
Last night, we went up to Charm City to catch The Swell Season (Warning, Plays Music) at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, nominally the home of the BSO. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, fresh off their win of the Oscar for Best Original Song from Once. Hansard & Irglova brought three instrumentalists from The Frames, making for [...]
More »Stroke that cock, Vegan!
As we were coming home from the Lewis Black show on Friday night, this was the ad on the Orange Line train back to Clarendon. I appreciate that being vegan will allow you to play with chickens, or something. Those folks I know who participate in farmers’ markets and CSA will frequently be able to [...]
More »The Storm that Just Won’t Die
The storm that soaked us all last weekend, brought down limbs all over town, and gave us a good 6″ of much-needed rain and some very wet English Basement apartments in the District also gave us some amazing pictures out at Bethany Beach just over in Delaware. Check out the May 2008 set, which seems [...]
More »Way less cute when they give you lockjaw
Although there’s a number of people in this town who could do with a good case of lockjaw, I personally think the frothing at the mouth could get distracting, not to mention a little worrisome for the tourists. So you should keep that in mind when you interact with our wildlife and when you ponder [...]
More »What DC Needs: A Good Taco Bell
While I’m not really a proponent of fast food intake on a regular basis (and am all for a fast food tax), I do love me some Taco Bell. It’s been a huge part of my life since I was, oh I dunno, 10 years old? My best friend and I would ride our bikes [...]
More »Time to SAVOR
If you’re looking for an eating treat this weekend, The Brewers Association has an option for you tonight or in one of two time-slots tomorrow: “SAVOR: An American craft beer & food experience.” They have a lot of verbiage to describe and promote it, but I’d boil it down to this: Why should the wine [...]
More »First Rose
My First Rose of the Year! We’re usually 7-10 days behind the beautiful exploding vine of roses that my neighbors, two doors down, have planted along their walkway. The aphids stayed away this year, mostly distracted by the wild rose vine that sprung up last summer. There’s something about this year, I think I’m in [...]
More »Stone Cold Silence
So last night me and the missus went to look at a couple of townhomes, one of which we’re considering purchasing. We’d both had a really long mental day at our dayjobs, so I suggested we make the trip out to the Cold Stone Creamery on US 1, near the I-495 interchange. There’s not really [...]
More »Two days till the Tropic Hunt
If you didn’t read the chat I linked in yesterday’s post, you might have missed my old cow-orker Andy shamelessly attempting to shill his archive site. D.C. Here I Come, FL: How ironic would it be if someone from South Florida placed in the Hunt, knowing what the prizes are? Is there a Webs ite [...]
More »Arsenic Closes Fort Reno Park
Yesterday morning bright and early, the Park Service closed the park at Fort Reno citing massive arsenic toxicity in the soil on the site. The soil samples reported to the press were between 500 and 1,100 parts per million, or roughly 10 to 25 times the legal “safe” limit. If you’re wondering what’s to become [...]
More »Smart and Safe?
Just as I predicted, Smart cars are beginning to infiltrate DC. Not that I’m Nostradamus or something, I mean these cars are cheap and built for city living so it’s no surprise that they’re starting to zoom around like giant mosquitoes. But are they safe? Yes they are. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has [...]
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