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courtesy of ‘Spodie Odie’

It was no avail, however. Turns out that the event was not really supported by a sponsorship effort in the traditional sense — Screen on the Green wasn’t set up as a collaborative effort between the local government with HBO footing the bill or providing the hardware. According to Pepco Social Media rep Andre Francis, Pepco looked into sponsoring the screening after WLDC’s KatieT put forth the suggestion. HBO purportedly backed out of the event due to financial strains.

This morning’s Art Beat on WAMU offered up The Rosslyn Film Festival and the Strathmore Music Center as just two alternatives for outdoor film watching.

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Good luck to all our Post Hunters out there who are searching for clues. I know that fearless editor & chief techie for We Love DC Don Whiteside is out traversing the city at this very moment looking for the answers to all of the questions. On the line? $2000 in cash for the winning team. Good hunting, everyone!

‘When life gives you lemons…’
courtesy of ‘_cck_’

Okay guys, it’s late Friday afternoon. It’s been a long week. I’m ready for the weekend, and I need a drink.

The Post’s cooking blogger, Kim O’Donnel, has provided the perfect weekend cocktail recipe: Bourbon Cherry Lemonade. I’ll be having one of these shortly after arriving home, I think. Who’s with me?

‘Third tray of tyranids warriors and genestealers’
courtesy of ‘jon_a_ross’

I’m a little amazed at the saturation of promotion for this event that’s half a year away. We’ve gotten press releases here, there’s signage in the metro, the living statues in Union Station and Gallery Place, and sponsorship blurbs on NPR.

It sounds neat but who plans their museum visits six months out? Is there some other factor we’re missing here?

Warrior Outside Union Station
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If you pass through the Union Station 1st St NE entrance this afternoon, you might see this guy made up and posing as a living statue under the arches beside a chalk drawing on the floor.

Looks like a promo for an upcoming National Geographic Museum exhibit, Terra Cotta Warriors. I didn’t wait to see if he changed poses, but if anyone else gives him a poke, please do report back as to the results.

‘chicks-4 weeks’
courtesy of ‘goosegrease’

With all of the gardening, CSA vegetable-picking, and farmers’ market scouting we’ve been doing, our friends have started half-jokingly suggesting that we raise livestock. More and more of my extended social circle have been raving about keeping chickens in their backyard for egg-laying purposes. I looked into it (because fresh eggs from cage-free chickens are pretty much the best thing ever) and while it seems that cats are not especially interested in attacking chickens (my first objection), we definitely do not have enough space for a properly-sized chicken coop and run if we wanted to retain use of our back yard.  And really, what good is raising your own poultry if you don’t have room for a grill?

But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it a try if you’ve got a yard. The Post has a good article today on local urban poultry farmers. Technically, the District doesn’t permit backyard chickens, and I would neeeeever encourage you to do anything illegal, but other local jurisdictions’ laws vary, and it seems to me that a nosy neighbor can possibly be mollified with the occasional basket of very fresh eggs.  *Ahem.*

‘Stumptown Coffee Bike Parking’
courtesy of ‘The Lebers’

Bike to Work Day (that’s tomorrow, in case you’ve been living under a rock) is not only good for the environment for a day, it’s great for DC permanently. Everyone’s freaking out about how to accomodate all those bikers, so all across the city different groups have been installing new bike racks in various locations.

WMATA says they’ve installed “hundreds,” the Office of the Architect of the Capitol put a bunch on the East Front of the Capitol, and most fun of all is that the Swiss Embassy has donated 10 racks that are painted in various “Swiss” themes– including cow.

image courtesy of Mother’s Federal Hill Grille

I think I’m going to have to make a road (or, more likely, commuter train tracks) trip up to Baltimore to give Mother’s “heart attack on a plate” a try. I’ve been intrigued by the idea of the battered and deep-fried burger since I saw one on the Food network show “Guy’s Big Bite.”

That eatery was Joe’s Gizzard City in Michigan though, and I prefer my heart disease to be locally created. Mother’s is just a hop, skip and a jump away though, and conveniently located near Johns Hopkins’ cardiac ward.