A word of warning for all you DC locals that the Frederick Douglass Bridge is closed, and is going to stay that way for the foreseeable future; they're doing some long overdue repairs on it, so you'll need to figure out another way across the Anacostia. If you happen to live in Southeast, I recommend avoiding the Bridge by withdrawing all your ( Read more... )

Twenty-three years ago today, during a midnight snowstorm, the criminals Robert and Jim Irsay stole the Baltimore Colts from their city ( Read more... )

I know that back here I said I was going to do a driving music CD, and I still am, but today was just so absolutely nice that I couldn't help but mentally return to my surf music. It was a bit cloudy, but as soon as I walked outside, felt that breeze, and the sun peeked through, just a bit, "California Girls" started in my head and just didn't ( Read more... )

goudagirl posted that interview meme, and I went right to the bait. I'm a sucker for those things...which, as they are, are pretty good for memes. At least we have a chance to open up about ourselves a little and control the responses a bit better, instead of finding out that if I was a Pokémon, I'd be Squirtle, or something ( Read more... )

werewulf picked up another husband to use for kitty rescue. Cast off for another man! Oh, it all ended in tears, it was so dramatic. Shucks, I was kind of wanting to see if I could get kdsorceress and her sibs to call me "Daddy" in front of the animal shelter workers, and watch them try real hard not to crack up ( Read more... )

Nice time at Camden Yards over the weekend at a company outing at the ballpark. Well, nice, but lacking. The outing was a "party suite" skybox in left field, with all food included (including Boog's Barbecue, which is yet another of the many, many reasons that Baltimore is superior, hon). Can't beat that with a stick, right? Well, I ate too ( Read more... )

If you're keeping score at home, it hit 33 today. That's 91.5 on the Far-and-Wide Scale, and "Damned Hot" on the Scooterbird Scale. Humidity was approximately ten thousand percent, give or take a few.

The U. of Maryland is like a different planet now. Remember that series of Bloom County strips where Opus is mistaken for a defense contractor ( Read more... )

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Enjoyed a lovely evening with nesme and her vaguely fannish cow-orkers in Silver Spring last night, shootin' pool and mostly winning, thanks to my cunning strategy of hacking around on the table until my opponent sinks the eight ball by mistake ( Read more... )