An unusual day. My DW looked to have been getting what I had, but seems to have recovered quickly; in the meantime, my voice is almost all the way back, though I still have coughing jags which are difficult to deal with, particularly last night, which meant a rotten night's sleep. I walked with a colleague to the IMF building over lunch, ( Read more... )

I saw that at svamcon this year (which I didn't get to go to, dammit) they were playing 1000 Blank White Cards, which is a fun, boffo, and anarchic game. Looking it up on the Series of Tubes led to the discovery of the equally boffo Dvorak and - along with the demonstration of Martinis & Men at ednoria tonight - stirred some hankerings for developing my own ( Read more... )

A few shouts and PSAs to begin. I've been told that 395 is a nightmare parking lot coming into the District north from Springfield. In other news, fire is hot. Film at 11.

Also, lots of birthday cuddles and kisses to still_asking! And a fine thank you to flashneko for sending me the DVD of An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, which I received a matter of ( Read more... )

Okay, this wasn't the best of days. The protest went well; would've gone better if George Bush had looked out the window and said, "Hmmm, maybe I should just bag that idea of escalating in Iraq like a warmongering asshat, and just go back to Crawford, chat with oil guys, and make monkey faces," which, as Arlo says, wasn't very likely and we didn't ( Read more... )

So the short story is that things went pretty well downtown. (Mostly ignored by media, oh surprise...WaPo article before the fact here.) A fair crowd there, perhaps a bit over 100. Lots of cameras and mics, but nobody recognizable; Gawd knows who's senior project I just became a part of ( Read more... )

Got this over my Library mail:

Library medical officials have received a health advisory from the Emergency Health and Medical Services Administration (EHMSA) of the DC Department of Health regarding the finding of trace levels of the bacterial agent, Francisella Tularensis, on the National Mall during the National Book Festival and antiwar ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen crazieabby's acting debut, then go see it this weekend, fanboy. Don't make me axe you 'gain.

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My own camera may have bit the big one, but the Progressive Review, a DC-based Web-only journal, has links to yesterday's doings on our side of the fence.

Overslept this morning, so I missed David Cobb's speech to the crowd at Malcolm X Park...and I do mean "crowd". The park occupies two or three blocks, and it was full up to the gills. It was at that time, while standing on a park bench, that I realized my digital camera was out of juice and wouldn't even turn on. Sonnybishgohelldammit.

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( Thursday morning, Bethesda )