Following the readers of the Capital Weather Gang, my go-to source for local weather info, who voted to go with "Snowzilla" as the name for this storm ( Read more... )

Between the news about yesterday's mess of an evening commute and the impending blizzard, I think I have come up with the perfect name to describe winter in this area:

DCSnowpia

Pronounced "dis-snow-pia", it neatly fits "DC" and "snow" into "dystopia", which pretty much describes what the DC area turns into during a snowstorm.

Yes, it's time once again for my traditional birthday housefilk, which we'll host at our townhouse in Rockville on Sunday, December 13th, from 2pm til 8pm. (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday ( Read more... )

Following a fairly lazy Labor Day weekend mostly spent catching up on DVR'd shows, we filled this past weekend with back-to-back festivals.

Saturday we made our annual trip to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Somehow, we managed not to melt (or get heatstroke) in the heat and humidity. In fact, in all the visits I've made to Crownsville over the ( Read more... )

I'm overdue (no surprise) for posting a reminder that we have a pair of Baltimore-area housefilks on the next two Saturdays. On July 5th Craig Stanfill hosts in Severna Park; on July 12th Michael O'Connor hosts in Cockeysville. Message or e-mail me for more information ( Read more... )

My friends, for the first time in a long time, we have a housefilk that's not at Stately Ehrlich Manor! Craig Stanfill, who some of you know from MASSFILC and/or the MSU Tolkien Society, has joined the burgeoning ranks of filkers in the Balto/Wash corridor and will be hosting a housefilk on July 5th at his new place in Severna Park, from 7pm until ( Read more... )

Been rather behind on posting this, but then, as I keep saying, I've been busy.

Anyway, Heather Dale and Ben Deschamps will be setting down in Burtonsville, MD for a house concert on Friday, May 16th. Information can be found at this Facebook page or at this Google+ page. (Note I believe you have to add/follow the G+ page first.) Or e-mail/message ( Read more... )

There are benefits to living in a metropolitan area that is more capable of dealing with an extraterrestrial invasion force than a fair-to-middling amount of snow. Which is how I unexpectedly wound up with a snow day for my birthday. Whoever sent the weather, thanks! 8 ( Read more... )

Up until November, we'd somehow only managed to attend a handful of folk concerts over the course of the year. Suddenly, our calendar is full of them.

It started in mid-months with the Berrymans, about which I've already posted. We followed that up a few days later with the Austin Lounge Lizards at the Barns of Wolf Trap. This was the Lizards' ( Read more... )

Yes, it's time once again for my traditional birthday housefilk, which we'll host at our townhouse in Rockville on Sunday, December 8th, from 2pm til 8pm. (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday ( Read more... )