Archive for the 'CityPaper' Category

new story

November 15th, 2008

new story in the citypaper - about a library report that rather shockingly came right out and said that the older, richer, whiter people in a wealthy part of DC would really prefer there be fewer homeless people in the library.  it’s not the sentiment that’s shocking - it’s a sentiment that it seems a […]


go Nats? go where?

October 8th, 2008

 as someone I (barely) know put it yesterday: they’re having YOU write about baseball?

well indeed!  baseball and free tickets and scalpers and libertarians in this week’s CityPaper.


in my home town, the birds all go to heaven

August 15th, 2008

this is a birdhouse in front of a church in East Greenwich, RI
sparrow services at 5am, robins at 9.
my new CityPaper story is out, too, and in it you will learn why you are lucky not to be online dating. not that I speak from experience.


souvenir plates are the best

June 4th, 2008

 
this one’s on the wall in the Smithsonian in Anacostia

 
the church it’s memorializing - Our Lady of Perpetual Hope - is just down the street from said Smithsonian
and has something called the Panorama Room
which just sounds intoxicating
speaking of Anacostia, you should read this crazy story of the handsome devil named Captain John Smith
the first European […]


writers are not like other people

May 9th, 2008

this here photo is of a travel agency - Japan Associates - on U Street and 17th in DC. You probably can’t read the sign, because I took the photo on my iPhone which means I couldn’t zoom in on the relevant part - but if you could read the sign you’d see that it […]


more stories about lawyers

November 9th, 2007

from the Washington CityPaper:
Attorney at Blah
if there’s a moral in this story it is this: go to law school with your eyes open


the fake job

September 7th, 2007

turned into a real article for the Washington CityPaper
Wanted: Gullible Lawyers