‘Empty Ride’
courtesy of ‘Samer Farha’

Continuing their established tradition of advance notice, WMATA has just put out a press release detailing the times and locations of the shuttles they’ll be running for people impacted by this weekend’s station closings.

In case you’ve forgotten (or are the board and have not been informed), closings start tonight at 9:30pm and close Pentagon City, Crystal City and Reagan National Airport metro stations.  If you’re going there or are going to try to make it anywhere on the blue or yellow line south of the airport you’re going to want to check this out and verify where and when to grab the shuttles at each particular station.

In a nutshell: if you’re headed down to the southern segment you’ll get off at the Pentagon station.  From there you can grab one of four shuttles proceeding to the following destinations:

1. Braddock Road station
2. Franconia Springfield station
3. Reagan National Airport station
4. Pentagon City station & Crystal City station

If you’re coming from the south it’s a toss-up whether you’re better off going to Franconia or Braddock. If WMATA sticks with their promised every 10-15 minutes for departures during the day that could very well be less of a wait than you sometimes get between trains on the weekend.

‘331’
courtesy of ‘me and the sysop’

Nostalgia is a scary thing, and kind of amazing. Ten years ago I’d have laughed, now I kinda wanna go.

MC Hammer is going to headline a “Retro Replay Concert” at Six Flags on Sunday, September 27th.

You can totally play it off as an ironic event if, unlike me, you were actually issues some capacity for shame: the event’s free to anyone who has already paid their way into the park. If you drop the $10 for ‘preferred floor access,’ however, I got nothing for you.

Show starts at 4, whether you have found your parachute pants yet or not.

Washington Highlands has a new library coming to the Southwest DC neighborhood. Designed by British architect David Adjaye, it sports an ultra-modern look and floor plan where apparently right angles are hard to come by. The project rendering appears to be quite out of place for DC and will stir up probably the same sentiments about the Frank Gerhy Corcoran extension or Eisenhower Memorial Award.

As the rare, neo-classical loving architecture guy, I think it is reminiscent of a preschool meets the design studio project of a sophomore architecture school student who loves Zaha Hadid.

Apparently I’m not alone as the neighborhood has been speaking out against the design as well. Adjaye has countered these complaints by stating that “Modernity need not be a frightening thing.” Modernity, Mr. Adjaye, isn’t frightening in and of itself, nor should it be barred from use in the design of this library. But something utilizing a more austere form would be welcome. For example, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (photos: [1] [2]).

According to their website, Adjaye Associates is also designing a library to replace the existing Francis Gregory facility which at least has some remote archetypal connection to the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Memorial (and therefore the classical temple).

‘robus’
courtesy of ‘nevermindtheend’

Avoid the area at Connecticut Ave NW and Florida Ave NW as a female pedestrian was truck by a bus there this morning. It’s not clear at this time if the pedestrian or bus driver are at fault. The woman has been transported with life threatening injuries to GWU Hospital Center.

‘giant fist’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99’

Because he’s not a cuddler, he’s a rapist. MPD 2nd District Commander Matt Klein said it best: “You cuddle someone you love. We’re looking for a criminal.”  There was another incident this morning, this one involving digital penetration, which is considerably more than anything that could be flippantly called “cuddling.”

So we need to call this creep what he is. I propose, “Georgetown Come-into-my-house-and-I’ll-beat-you-with-a-baseball-bat.” Or maybe “Georgetown Any-part-of-you-that-touches-me-you’re-not-getting-back.”

But failing all that, I’d settle for the “Georgetown Rapist.”

‘DSC_4717’
courtesy of ‘rekphoto’

James Von Brunn, accused Holocaust Museum shooter and vile bigot, appeared in court this morning for a preliminary hearing. US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ordered that Von Brunn be examined for competency to stand trial at the agreement of his attorney but over his personal objections, and another hearing has been scheduled for October 14th. The arraignment has been delayed to allow the examination to take place, and this hearing had been delayed due to injuries Von Brunn sustained during the shooting.