Archive for the 'DC-type stuff' Category

wherein the author begs to differ with the washington post

January 22nd, 2009

The city proved equal to an unparalleled challenge says the Washington Post, about yesterday’s inauguration

as someone who survived the purple tunnel of doom - an inauguration ticket-holder who stood in line for hours inside the 395 tunnel along with thousands upon thousands of other ticket-holders, some of whom (but not me; too lazy) had been waiting since 6 in [...]


feeling blue?

December 11th, 2008


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.


beautiful weather

October 7th, 2008


my new gig

August 29th, 2008


nap time near Dupont Circle

August 22nd, 2008


where does this stuff come from?

August 20th, 2008


nutraloaf is the worst – all media agree – but David Gross likes it

June 25th, 2008

My slate piece on nutraloaf is out.  Apparently, in the long long past, the Onion also did a Nutraloaf taste-testing. This actually is a coincidence, though I’m surprised that more people – writers in particular – didn’t taste test Nutraloaf since it sounds so theoretically delicious and yet is sued over so frequently, thus [...]


it looks like me

June 20th, 2008

but i wasn’t lost

i was on u street