Archive for June, 2009
Paper or Plastic? Either Way, it Costs a Nickel
‘Plastic bags’
courtesy of ‘Gabriel Thomas’
Being non-green (we need a color description for non-environmentally conscious people, by the way) just got a bit pricier. Yesterday, the City Council gave final approval to a measure that imposes a 5-cent fee on disposable bags. The new law is designed to encourage the purchase of reusable bags, which will hopefully cut [...]
Office Schedule Change – Ugly Sweater Day Revisited
Justin’s Ugly Cat Sweater
Originally uploaded by nerdcoregirl
What? A high in the 60’s? It’s June, for Pete’s sake. I just wish I had a nice cat sweater and a beer and I could stay at home, away from the impending craziness, snow-induced accidents and obvious breakdown of order in the world. It’s too cold to be [...]
More »Comedy in DC: You got comedy in my music venue
Okay, so first I have to get this Dylan-with-an-arrow-through-his-head thing out of the way. There’s this show at the Velvet Lounge on July 10th. It’s called 3 Chord Comedy, and it is, as the image above implies, comedy in a venue that generally focuses on music. It starts at 7PM, and the cover is a [...]
Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival
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courtesy of ‘Spodie Odie’
A few weeks ago, I headed over to National Harbor for the Food and Wine Festival. This weekend, you can replicate my trip, but do it redneck and southern-style, for the Beer, Bourbon and BBQ festival.
$30 will get you in the door and drinking unlimited samples. Exhibitors range from Flying Dog, Ben [...]
This Just In: Senator Ensign is a Douchebag
‘Monistat & Summer’s Eve’courtesy of ‘mag3737′
Yeah, the very same Senator Ensign who decided that the price for DC’s voting rights was a complete stripping of firearms controls in the District of Columbia has proved himself a douche in other capacities: he’s admitted cheating on his wife. Usually I’d say “Nah, let him and his [...]
NASA’s space flight plans
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If you’re a space wonk and have some time tomorrow you might want to go to NASA’s public meeting about the plans for human space flight. Starting at 9am at the Carnegie Institution auditorium and running till 5pm topics will include the Constellation Program, the International Space Station, other orbital transport systems, and how it [...]
Calling All Artists for Call Box Art
If you’ve walked in and around Capitol Hill, you’ve seen them, but you probably had no idea what they were. 6-foot tall brown curvy posts of some sort, typically with a empty, see-through round frame up top. What are those and what purpose do they serve? They’re police and fire call boxes, and in recent [...]
More »Reload Your SmarTrip Card at CVS or Giant
‘First subway ride’
courtesy of ‘ktylerconk (Tennessee)’
Great news from Metro today: you can now load value onto your SmarTrip card at over 100 CVS and Giant Food stores. This is the latest step in making it easier to use and reload SmarTrip cards since Metro eliminated paper transfers back in January. You can load value using [...]
Freddie’s wins best float for OZ theme
Wizard of Oz
courtesy of ep_jhu
Crystal City represent! Freddie’s Beach Bar and Restaurant, the gay bar that my darling wife descibes as looking “as if South Beach threw up,” (she means it with love) won the Tina Turner award for best float in the Capital Pride Parade[pdf]. Congrats to Freddys and their partner in this venture, [...]
See Eggleston For Free at Saturday Opening
‘Corcoran Gallery of Art’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
This Saturday the Corcoran Museum will open its anticipated exhibit, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera. The exhibit a retrospective which brings together 150 photographs of the influential Eggleston, a pioneer of color photography and artist of the familiar. The show will also feature many of the images which [...]
Does the Referendum Rejection Even Mean Anything?
‘Activists Grandmothers’
courtesy of ‘Poldavo (Alex)’
Did the Board of Elections and Ethics kill the gay marriage debate in DC by ruling against “The Referendum Concerning the Jury and Marriage Amendment Act?” Hardly. It codified DC’s position on defining marriage and headed off the marriage-opponents’ major strategy, but it didn’t come near to ending the debate. After unpacking the [...]
Bipartisan Baseball Tomorrow
‘practice balls’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
For those of you who are into political metaphors turning not-so-metaphorical, Congress will be playing its annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park. Tickets are $10 and ticket proceeds benefit the Washington Literacy Council and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. The Republicans are defending their title, and [...]
DC Bocce Summer Registration Opens Soon
‘Bocce balls’
courtesy of ‘hurricanemaine’
Some of us just aren’t hardcore enough for kickball. Seriously, I’ve heard some nightmare stories about overly-serious and competitive teams kicking half-inflated balls in the heat of a DC afternoon, and all that sounds miserable to me. I’m just not that kind of girl. So what is a girl like me to [...]
This Really Is the Best Idea You’ve Ever Had
‘The rooftop pool’
courtesy of ’salanki’
I don’t know how this one has slipped by me, but Brightest Young Things can officially claim Best Idea Ever with their BYT Summer Camp series, every Saturday this summer.
Let’s see if this has all my requirements for an awesome time: Quality pool time? Check. They take over the pool area [...]
Iranians in DC
The AP has a whole set of video captured yesterday here in DC as a group of Iranians, and Iranian-Americans, protested the results of the contested election on the streets of DC yesterday. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s happened in Iran, whether or not the election’s been wholesale stolen, whether it’s been altered [...]
More »Featured Photo
DC1_9191 by Spodie Odie
When I first became interested in photography I was obsessed with doing macro work. A friend of mine who is a Nikon guy (the horror!) showed me the results he was getting with his macro lens and I was sold right away. Not long after I purchased what is still one of [...]
Referendum Against Gay Marriage Rejected
‘From Capital Pride Parade’
courtesy of ’spiggycat’
The DC Board of Elections & Ethics has rejected the proposed referendum on whether or not DC can recognize gay marriage as a violation of DC’s Human Rights Act. Furthermore, the City Paper reports, the board’s order rejecting the referendum specifically points out that it was Marion Barry’s amendments to [...]
DC is a Beer Town
‘Brickskeller’
courtesy of ‘needlessspaces’
Last week I read an article by Baltimore Sun beer blogger (lucky bastard) Rob Kasper, in which he waxed poetic about Baltimore’s overwhelmingly superior beer culture at the expense of our “wino” city. I wanted to cry foul via a devilishly constructed response, but knowing nothing of Baltimore’s beer culture, I shied away. [...]
This is not “foxy boxing”
‘Vrouwelijke bokskampioen / Female boxing champion’
courtesy of ‘Nationaal Archief’
Did they have that nonsense up here? The local rock station used to host that event when I was growing up in Miami and I was happy not to have thought of it till now. Unfortunately this event seems to have dredged up all kinds of nonsense [...]
