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Posted on July 14, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, society | Tags: baseball, washington, nationals, street sense, homeless, bootstraps, good, digs on nationals management, baseball management, money in baseball |
Please don’t tell me if Street Sense, the Washington D.C. based paper for and by the city’s homeless, has a downside, a seedy uncurrent, a mismanaged office. I don’t want to know. Because I love it.
I love the home-grown nature of it, the pull-yourself up by your bootstraps nature of it, and, frankly, the fine [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, overheard, poetry | Tags: cell phone, dc, dupont, found form, overheard, people, say, sound, talk, walk, walking, washington |
Photo: “Dc Art Walk 10″ by “bullneck” on flickr
7:20 a.m.
Clickity clickity. fwip. fwip.
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Posted on July 7, 2008. Filed under: Love etc., contest, society, tv | Tags: bachelor, bachelorette, deanna, game, jason, jesse, loser, love, reality tv, televsion, win, winner |
I’m an unabashed reality show junkie from wayyyyy back in the “Real World” days. Besides Real World, America’s Next Top Model, Top Chef, Project Runway, yes even Joe Millionaire (I read, too. I swear. Big books with big words!)
Yet, for the most part, “The Bachelor” and later “The Bachelorette” eluded me. Sure I’d watch now [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2008. Filed under: Love etc., feminism, friend, mental health, poetry, writing | Tags: dependence, independence, love, trust |
In college, contemplating and confronting so many things at one – love, feminism, liberty, life — I began my wonderings about independence.
I wrote poetry in bluegreen notebooks:
“ Dependent, from Latin,
meaning: to hang from
So tonight I am wondering:
Do I hang from you? “
Hanging from was not a good thing, I concluded then. I [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, arlington, humor, office, overheard, society, washington, washington, dc | Tags: arrogance, battle, boy, bush, challenge, cheney, court house, frat boys, funny, lawyers, McClellan, metro, new carrolton, officemates, oh YEAH, one-upmansship, orange line, outdo, overheard, politics, roomates, scoff, show off, social poser, summer internship, washington, work |
Yes, this is an actual conversation I heard on the Orange Line towards New Carrolton. Ah, Washington in the summer… bring on the interns and the summer associates. Some towns have sports talk. We have this (transcribed as closely as I could write on the back of an Express newspaper from my nearby seat)
Obvious summer [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, society, writing | Tags: death, father, good guy, sad, tim russert, why |
Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack
Really? Really, universe? Did this have to be?
Did it have to be Father’s Day weekend, Friday the 13th, out of nowhere, without warning.
How many truly great men do we have to lose? How can we have an election without him?
Adieu, Tim Russert, great journalist, great man, kind person, Washintonian at [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008. Filed under: fox, politics |
Attention all terrorist fist jabbers: your day (and shirt) has come. In case you missed it, this is what fox news called the barak and michelle obama fist bump at his speech last tuesday. nicceee.
Tags: obama, michele, fist bump, terrorist fist jab, fist bump, fox news, are you kidding me?, [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, politics, society | Tags: barak, Chelsea Clinton, democrat, facebook, friending, friends, goodbye, hello, Hilary, Hillary Clinton, hillary speech, Obama, politics, president, primary, speech, u.s. politics |
I have a lot more to say about “friends” as I enter the brave new social media world, where “friends” on various networks mean wildly different things to different people, where importing your contacts into any new communication service can lead to wildly embarrassing events (Uhh, who are you? Uhh, didn’t we go out once [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, humor, society, washington, washington, dc | Tags: baseball, dc, flickr, funny, making baseball fun, mascot, mascots, nationals, president's race, Scott Ableman, teddy, teddy roosevelt, when good mascots go bad |
Panther Attack!, originally uploaded by Scott Ableman.
Ha ha ha. This is one of the funniest photos I’ve ever seen (is it just me? I actually LOL’ed and this would make baseball much more entertaining!) It was taken by my newest Flickr contact Scott Ableman . Thanks, Scott, for the lols!
Will Teddy never win?
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Posted on June 5, 2008. Filed under: That's how DC rolls, arlington, contest, meme, society, writing | Tags: award, ben's, ben's chili bowl, best, blog, blogger, contest, dc, dc bests, dc favorites, dc worsts, erincarly, flickr, herb, herb of dc, herbofdc, hungry, jobless, photo, prize, recommendation, secret, snark, soup is not a finger food, spot, top 10, washwords, what liz said, winner, worst |
Okay, so now you’re learning some of my secrets.
1) I LOVE love LOVE starting projects! Finishing them… mmm… not so much. (Duh. I mean I’m writing this post during work hours time I surely could be putting to better use.)
2) I fear conflict and delivering bad news. How can I tell anyone they didn’t [...]
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