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.
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 […]
“Lots of tourists view travel abroad as basically a chance to shop for regionally themed trinkets.”
hee - funny article on Slate about a grown man (well, a guy my age…) spending five days in Disneyland, not enjoying it all that much. reminiscent of A Supposely Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. i […]
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 […]
You Just Gotta Try The Spitzer
Hot Tongue On Rye
$8.00
the guys at Eisenberg’s said sandwich #9’s been a bit hit all week
but that it’s priced about $4292 too cheaply
says Vault
and another thing, since I like the sound of this play, which seems to share a theme with my novel, by which I mean both have as themes this idea that paradise doesn’t exist - except my novel doesn’t have Aristophanes in it, and I suspect that this play is lacking in good old-fashioned […]
good news for me, since Japan isn’t a four hour plane ride away anymore,
but I still need my yearly stock of grey shirts and brown notebooks
and goldfish-catching games
I got it into my head yesterday that I should walk from Bethesda to Adams Morgan, to see what interesting things turned up along the way, and so I did it, and there were many interesting things, including a teeny tiny Filipino grocery store in Tenleytown.
I went inside the store and got all teary because […]
Here’s the piece for the ABA Journal about Indian lawyers who do work for American companies and law firms:
Manhattan Work At Mumbai Prices
Milwaukee
this woman and her bird had just come from the vet