Well. I had a bit of an adventure this afternoon. I went to open skate over at Supreme Sports--which is not actually the adventure in question, although it was pretty hazardous given the toxic concentration of small children there for birthday parties and the fact that the roof was leaking so they had a bucket with cones around it smack in the ( Read more... )

I do so love a good police chase in the morning.

Chases rule, if only because they are hilarious. You haven't lived until you've listened to the scanner chatter of the police in pursuit--their location updates, their strategizing, their suspect and vehicle descriptions... it's all priceless. And having our WBAL boys in the traffic chopper with ( Read more... )

Damn Target. It's physically impossible to leave that store without spending at least $50. I went there today to pick up laundry detergent, Swiffer Dusters and an Air Wick Plug-In refill, yet somehow I exited the store $61 poorer. And thank God I had a bit of willpower socked away, otherwise I would have blown even more on DVDs. Everything was on ( Read more... )

From one of our news alert e-mails:

VIR| Fairfax County (McLean)| Suspicious Device| FCFD 4C| Rt 123 @ I-495|R401 w/ possible pipebomb; VSP & EOD e/r; Rt 123 s/d; wrkng on 1200 isolation zone| VIR050| 10:02Translation: Some dumb fuck left what looks like a pipe bomb on the side of RT-123/Chain Bridge Rd near Tysons Corner Mall. It's close enough ( Read more... )

Okay, so I think we can all agree that The Matrix Reloaded is a pretty badass flick. Plenty of ass-kicking, plenty of black leather, plenty of Laurence Fishburne straight-up owning everyone and their mother. But perhaps it takes a traffic reporter who has been far too long in her job to consider the big chase scene on the freeway to be a succulent ( Read more... )

Jesus fucking Christ on a cream cracker. Lisa Baden (the traffic chick on Channel 7) has broken out the props. How many times do I have to say this? Traffic reporters are not funny. Traffic reporters are never meant to be funny. Traffic reporters play the straight man to the Morning Zoo's crazies. These days even the news people are being ( Read more... )