Archive for December, 2008
Against the Wind
If you didn’t feel like a combination between a mime and Bob Seger then I don’t suppose you went outside today. Between the weird wintry weather and the harsh wind, I have been convinced to stay indoors until everything thaws and starts to warm up, like until April. Until then I will be hunkered down [...]
More »Didn’t 2008 Just Fly By?
2008 may have just been the fastest year of my life. Seriously, where did the time go? My roommate and I were driving somewhere today and I looked down at my car inspection sticker and it’s been almost a year since I got my car! It honestly feels like it was just yesterday.
All kinds of [...]
2008 Retrospective: What You Loved This Year
Thanks for a great year, everyone. This has been OUR baby’s first Christmas, and by way of celebration, I thought I’d take a look back at some of our most popular posts this year, in case you missed ‘em the first time.
By far, the most popular post this year in terms of both pageviews AND [...]
Thundersnow!!
thundersnowOriginally uploaded by butterfingers laura
Okay, I know this photo’s from Minnesota, but you try finding a thundersnow photo of DC! I was sitting in my living room working on some documents when it got late-August-thunderstorm-dark, and then incredibly windy, and then it was blizzard-strength snow, moving horizontally across the window with gale force. [...]
Inauguration: Rental Woes
For the last three weeks my roommates and I have been trying to rent our 3 bedroom apartment for inauguration week. Our marketing plan has employed two tactics: 1) emailing friends from all over about the rental opportunity and asking them to advertise it (via an attached poster) to anyone who might be interested. And [...]
More »Dance Your Way into 2009
untitled, courtesy of Sexy Fitsum
What better way to start 2009 than a dance party…or four? Dance the recession blues away starting Friday, January 2 with Rock and Roll Hotel’s Disco City (free), then boogie into Black Cat on Saturday the 3rd for Homo/Sonic, an alternative co-ed dance party for queer folks and their friends ($10).
The [...]
Featured Photo
Fluidity by primplan
With so many awesome photos in our pool lately, it was hard to decide on just one to write about (in fact it always is). In the end, the creative use of a two second exposure to capture the movement of this belly dancer at Marrakesh won me over. Sometimes it’s difficult to [...]
Inauguration Bits
Tom and I keep getting asked by our out of town friends and relatives what it’s like to live in the middle of history as DC prepares for Inauguration 2009. I always explain it this way- DC went through the motions to get ready for Christmas, with the National Tree Lighting and whatnot, but the [...]
More »Supersized Weekend Flashback: 12/25 – 12/28
National Christmas Tree and Chanukah Menorah, courtesy of Sam Ruaat
Welcome back, everyone! Hope your holiday weekend was fantastic and you weren’t sick (like I was). I had a hard time selecting photos from our recent four-day extended weekend, so I’m sure you won’t mind a larger portion of Flashback today.
A quick reminder that there’s only [...]
NYE Planning Guide
So now that the giving holidays are mostly over, it’s time to think about the next big event – New Year’s Eve! I’m sure WLDC will do a much more comprehensive round-up of possibilities, but if you’re type A like me then you’re already chomping at the bit to get started planning. Ben rounded up [...]
More »Admiral’s Cube
Admiral’s Cubical Club
courtesy of Me
If you’re a frequent American Airlines flyer heading out of one of the B concourse gates at Dulles you can enjoy all the comforts of work in their snazzy Admiral’s Cubical Club! I’m not a member so I can’t tell you if there’s a lumpy chair, flickering fluorescents, and blank TPS [...]
Monumental: Daniel Webster
The statue of Daniel Webster that stands next to the Embassy of the Philippines on Massachusetts Avenue is largely ordinary. It’s a 12-foot bronze in the classical revival style, a stern and somber great man with his cape over his shoulder. The Gaetano Trentanove bronze was presented to the United States by Mr. [...]
More »Happy Holidays, Past and Present
Capitol Holiday, courtesy of ARKNTINA
Happy Holidays from all of us here at WeLoveDC. We present to you some photos of holidays past, courtesy of the Library of Congress. May your holiday be warm and bright, filled with memories happy and light.
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Some Holiday Spirit
The Costanza Wallet
courtesy of shareski
One of my favorite memories is – apropos of my age, I suppose – of something I watched on television.
Probably about 15 years ago I saw a Dateline episode where they did an experiment that involved leaving a wallet on the street and seeing what happened to it. The initial tests [...]
From me, to you, blogosphere
US Capitol Christmas by Marc.Benton
So either you’re waiting for your boss to let you go early, or you’re here in DC for the holidays. If you’re here for good, I’d head over to the Sculpture Garden Ice Rink, it should be lovely the next few days. Or, snub Christmas by heading to the Matzo Ball [...]
Talkin’ Transit: Metro Memories
PC290059.JPG, courtesy of OberonInDC
Ahhh, memories. Metro has given us some great ones over the last year; in the spirit of the holidays I thought I’d share the twelve most memorable, in no great particular semblance of order. It’s been a year of ups and downs for WMATA, so why don’t we look back and smirk, [...]
Teixeira to the Yankees
Well, so much for landing a local superstar to anchor the Nationals this year. Mark Teixeira, and his feckless thug of an agent Scott Boras, extracted $180M from the Yankees for an 8-year deal with the [expletive deleted] New York [expletive deleted] Yankees, who apparently also included [expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] piles of money. [...]
More »Major Water Main Break on River Road
A five-and-a-half-foot water main ruptured this morning in Montgomery County. A stretch of the aptly-named River Road from Bradley Blvd to Seven Locks Road is under four feet of water. That’s about a mile long stretch, there. Rescues of stranded drivers have been made from helicopters over the road.
The nearest valve to [...]
More »Avoid Cabin John Today…
…because there’s been a water main break so massive that people are having to be rescued from their cars, which are stranded in several feet of water, including a mother and child who had to be rescued by helicopter. Just steer clear of that part of Bethesda entirely.
Be safe, everyone.
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So you’re still in town?
Plane and sun flare by flickr user Needlessspaces
So you’re still with us, DC? You haven’t flown away yet? Well you’re in luck, cause believe it or not, DC is still kicking with activity. So while the Metro might be more deserted (hello, empty seat on the Orange line during rush hour, where have you been [...]
