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Innauguration

Donald Trump will be my President. And he will be your President. And saying otherwise will make you sound no better than the petulant parents who kept their…

Why Trump?

I am mystified by the relative success of Trump’s campaign. I can understand he’d have some amount of support. He’s been a media personality for 30 years. He’ll…

Why do I still blog after 18 years?

My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come…

Inspirational Television

Small observation, regarding television shows: I like Aaron Sorkin shows. Yes he’s an incredible writer. Yes, while he has a definite liberal bent, he has no trouble calling…

Mother.

Dear lady with the cute baby in the stroller, You may not know this, but muttering snarky comments under your breath as you walk away isn’t the best…

Buy a house.

The perfect antidote to the desire to buy a house is the process of buying a house. My process so far certainly hasn’t been standard, but even the…

Gentrification

I like this article on gentrification in DC. (“Gentrification in D.C.: How will we remember those displaced?” in the Washington Post). While ‘gentrification’ is a loaded word, the…

bad light

You want a horribly colored photo? Stick me in a room with incandescent lighting, and beige walls, and beige furniture. No matter how much I mess with the…

Photoshopped

Just had another photo chosen as Photo of the Day on DCist. And immediately — and not for the first time — received some comments about photoshopping. I…

Shopping

I am impressed. I placed an order with Amazon yesterday. Well … one of the retailers who sells through Amazon. Because if this was Amazon, I would not…

Rules for dating (especially for “nice guys”)

In no particular order, and open to frequent revision: Rule 1: Forget everything you’ve learned. Forget whatever you saw on every TV show, movie, fairy tale, or webcast….

Don’t be a dick

Don’t be a dick, when you get drunk. I can live with drunk people getting loud. And they can even get reasonably obnoxious when they’re drunk. (I have…

hate.

Occasionally it feels really good to have money to throw at a problem. Coming home on the subway, 3 car-hopping poster-children-for-abortion threatened to set me on fire with…

Nice Guys

Being a “nice guy” is like being an alcoholic, in that you’re never really cured. There’s always that little bit of something in the back of your mind,…

bad. fucking. mood.

bad. fucking. mood.

bad does not equal evil

It’s important to remember, when you’re latching on and criticizing the man for the latest unpopular or controversial thing done by the Obama administration, that every president does…

no i.d. for you

must kill someone. jesus. I have always thought it incredibly stupid how every building wants you to sign in unless you work or live there. There’s absolutely no…

politics

obligatory: yes, i voted. Spent an hour in line at my polling place. Which wasn’t too bad, compared to the last 2 major elections. I kind of want…

not just you

So there were two thoughts bugging me on the metro tonight. One new, and one very old. Here’s the first, and we’ll see about the second if I…

Down with Xenu

Stupid little buggers. I went to take pictures at the Anonymous protest, yesterday. Anonymous — if you’re unaware — is a protest movement against the Church of Scientology….