I’m pretty sure you can judge how cool a DC neighborhood is by the number of Ethiopian restaurants it has. Even better is if some of those restaurants have actual Ethiopians in it. That’s how you figure out the good ones; you look at the ratio white people to Ethiopian people.
DC, for some reason, has [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Urban living'
Just order me the tibs
August 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Urban living
Tags: food
5 reasons DC doesn’t totally suck in August
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · 5 things, Urban living
Sure it’s hot and humid and the streets smell like trash and you don’t know anyone with a beach house (and the people you know with mountain cabins aren’t inviting you). But August doesn’t have to be the worst month of the year in DC. There are at least 5 things to be grateful for.
1. [...]
Tags: summer
I don’t care who invited you; stay out of my government.
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics, Urban living
DC has long been the playground for Congress to meddle and test out new social experiments. DC residents wanted a clean-needle exchange? No can do for you because some Senator from somewhere far away doesn’t like it [ban lifted in 2007]. Want to show some support for charter schools and school vouchers [...]
Oh, this is going to be interesting and really ugly
April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics, Urban living
So not content to let the heartland have all the good gay-marriage vibes, the East Coast is doing their best to catch up. Including the District of Columbia. On April 7, the City Council passed — unanimously — a measure recognizing same-sex marriages performed out-of-state. This is widely seen as the precursor to an eventual [...]
Tags: gay marriage·gun control·taxation without representation
Drive-by blogging: death of a city
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Urban living
Want to know how a city dies? It dies empty and beautiful — haunted by ghosts.
Tags: it's evening in America
5 signs that spring has sprung
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Urban living
Well, it’s sprung in DC at least. I don’t know about places like Fargo and Denver.
I know it’s cliche but the cherry blossoms really are beautiful.
The old guys on the D8 (last destination: Washington Hospital Center and the VA hospital) are exhibiting a certian … ripeness … about them.
Stand on the right, tourists. STAND ON [...]
Tags: spring
Divided heart, divided home
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Urban living
Vacationing in southeastern Iowa in early March is a test in meteorological fortitude. Never is a place so gray, so brown, so muddy and despairing as cold, rainy Iowa in March. Unless it is Iowa in November.
Seriously. Did you know that there are about 6 different shades of brown. Even the things that are normally [...]
Tags: homecoming home·Iowa·nostalgia
Stimulating thoughts while waiting for the D8
February 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics, Urban living
I don’t know if it’s a good stimulus plan or not. With $800 billion dollars worth of stuff in there, who knows. And there’s so much to be worked out between the Senate and the House versions that who knows what we are going to end up with. [Although if a bunch of economists, including [...]
What’s he going to do for me
January 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Popology, Urban living
As I stood waiting for the bus on Sunday morning, watching all manner of helicopters fly overhead — Marine One, DC police, Coast Guard (?!), Army — I thought of all the hopes and dreams we’ve invested in this new president. And I realized something.
That if he can’t make the freaking D8 — aka, the [...]
5 things they could have stolen out of my house instead of my laptop
January 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 5 things, Urban living
That box of academic and textbooks from my undergraduate days that I haven’t even opened in 10 years or so but can’t get rid of because maybe I might want them some day (research for my historical slash fiction) and think about how much money I paid for them, dammit!
My Chicago 17-19 CDs. Seriously, I [...]
Tags: break-in