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Very realistic.

If Congress lived in my father's neighborhood, the homeowners' association would have some choice words to say on how they're keeping their front lawn.

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Every day there are thousands of tourists in DC, and they all want to ask me for directions. I don't know why. I guess I exude that magical combination of knowledge, patience and general niceness that makes people think I can and will solve their local geography problems. So they come up to me and say, in French- or German- or Russian- or ( Read more... )

Last night Bethy and I braved the evilevilevil cold and wind to attend the High Heel Drag Race, held every year in DC on the Tuesday before Halloween. It's pretty great. A 3-or-4-block section of 17th street is blocked off for a couple of hours in the evening for a non-linear parade of drag queens in impossible footwear strutting up and down the ( Read more... )

From DC Wire:
One month left until Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and D.C. Democratic State Committee Chair Anita Bonds lead the city's delegation to Denver for the Democratic National Convention...Bonds said the delegation also is planning a trip to the U.S. Mint where delegates will pass out wooden quarters with the city's unofficial motto: "no taxation ( Read more... )

I have a routine in the evenings. I come home from work, I cook something, and I eat it on my couch watching Jeopardy!, because I'm a nerd. In the last few weeks this routine has brought something to my TV screen I had never ever seen before: presidential campaign ads. I regularly see both a McCain and an Obama ad in my half-hour of trivia time. ( Read more... )

I love books. I love them almost as much, maybe even sometimes more, than I love food. I like to read them. I like to read about them. I like to think about them and talk about them and blog about them. I like to hold them. I like to smell them. I like to buy them and hoard them. I like to see them all lined up neatly on my giant bookshelf, each in ( Read more... )

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival started yesterday down on the Mall and runs this weekend and next weekend. This year's themes are Bhutan, NASA (NASA has a folklife?) and TEXAS, the Best State Ever. This means lots of dancing to music played by guys in Stetsons and boots, samples of Texas wine (yes, there is such a thing), and best of all, FOOD ( Read more... )

Mere days after I was lamenting Eddie Izzard's metamorphosis from standup comedy god to run-of-the-mill TV actor, it has come to my attention that he actually has a new standup tour starting next week! He's in DC on on May 1st and 2nd, but of course it's been sold out for months. I am enough of a fangirl to plunk down the $200 for a highly- ( Read more... )