Road trip list #1
Banana Flux and I came up with several lists during a very long road trip from TX to DC a few months back. Here is the first. (more…)
Wherein I establish my place in the food chain
All of my closest friends in DC are incredible cooks. Before I developed much of a social network here I was working on culinary skillz of my own, but my learning curve plateaued with the introduction of people who know a lot more about food than I do. (more…)
Saturday night is Canada night in DC.
Third weekend in the last…five featuring a Saturday night performance by a prominent Canadian indie rock band at the 9:30 club. I should be so lucky that it’d never end. Metric last month? Terrific, of course. Stars last week? Probably even better… but I don’t think I’d trade both those shows straight up for the one the New Pornographers put on this weekend. (more…)
the yin and yang of spatial and temporal coincidence
Hello readers. I’m new but I’ll save proper introductions and just start writing in hope that you’ll get to know me though the blog here. This was actually written a few days ago. Enjoy, or not. (more…)
In praise of charity fandom
So, busy weekend… first chili of the season, which was tremendously exciting, and about which I promise I’ll post soon (pics!)… but setting aside all that deliciousness for the time being, let’s talk entertainment. I managed to take in two concerts last weekend, and they proved a study in contrast. On the one hand, Saturday night, Stars at the world famous 9:30 club. Was it awesome? Fuck yes. CV thinks so too, and more thoroughly and excellently than I could possibly muster here. Can you listen to the same concert? Why of course you can - thanks NPR. I have but a trifling few nits to pick with CV’s review (no mention of how adorable Amy Millan and her omnipresent bottle (of which I can find no pictures, sadly) are, no mention of the crazy homeless guy who tried to get me to take a pull off his ‘joint’ (nasty cigar, from the smell)) but that’s not really what I want to discuss here - let’s instead talk about friday night, and the magic of (sing it with me now) lowered expectaaaa-tions (please don’t watch that past 8 seconds, ‘mad tv’ may occur.) (more…)
