The last several days have been unseasonably balmy. Stepping out on the sidewalk and taking in a deep breath, for a moment you almost can smell spring. But then…wait a minute. That’s not spring that you smell. You can still smell the god damn ginkgos! They’re still on the trees and on our sidewalks! While the last month or so has meant a frosty casing around that butanoic acid, this early thaw has meant release for this putrid substance.
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Sharp-eyed walkers may have noticed a few white boxes hanging around Georgetown stoops like the one above. What is it? If you can believe it, it’s for a milkman and you too can get milk delivered like it’s 1930. Find out how after the jump:
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Anyone like GM who likes to visit Dumbarton Oaks frequently has surely had the frustration of seeing Dumbarton Oaks closed for weak reasons. Today they were closed do to “ice covered walks and pathways”. They are always closed after a snowfall, no matter the lightness of the accumulation. This is particularly frustrating for us photographers who would love to capture some shots of the gardens draped in snow.
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Today’s warm weather has brought life to the new waterfront, offering hope that this long awaited for project will be a popular destination this coming spring. Some fuzzy shots after the jump:
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Seen on Wisconsin Ave.: UglyDolls. Anyone know the correct term for a grouping of UglyDolls? Is it a gaggle? A bevy? A school?
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Seen in the C & O Canal: a cast-off Christmas tree, slowly breaking up the ice on its way to the Rock Creek.
Who would throw a tree into the canal? Guess they missed the January 17th deadline.
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Seen around Georgetown right now, snow:
Be careful with all those terrible drivers today.
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After four seasons, Anthony Bourdain’s travel-slash-cuisine show “No Reservations” finally got around to arriving sans reservations in the District. As one would expect, Bourdain sought out the “other” non-federal Washington, yet nonetheless spends an entire segment on spies in D.C. (a topic which probably constitutes about half of all DC-based movies). At least he does more than just visit the Spy Museum. In fact he visits Georgetown’s own Chadwicks.
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On Tuesday at the inaugural parade, our new president and vice-president walked by the new sign by the Wilson Building tabulating the total federal taxes paid by District residents without representation. On top of this (likely futile) attempt to educate the country, the Council proposed last year to change the name of South Capitol St. to Taxation Without Representation St.
So long as we’re making a political issue out of our street names, why not address the representation issue head on?
One argument sometimes put forward to deny the District statehood is that with two senators and our small population, we’d be “over-representated” in the Senate. But aren’t we already extending a lot of the states a similar overrepresentation? Not in the legislative sense of the word, but in the geographic sense? In other words, what states get more asphalt on our streets than their populations deserve? Find out after the jump:
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So after all that Sturm und Drang over the late hours at the restaurants and bars around town, the inaugural fest is over. According to DCist, crime was actually relatively low for the weekend. 4 AM is way past GM’s bedtime, so he didn’t get to verify whether those establishments identified as night owls would take advantage of the relaxed rules or whether M St. was turned into a all-night noise machine. So did anyone stay up till 4 pounding beers at Clyde’s, martinis at Bodega, and, err, baguettes at Le Pain Quotidien? What was M St. like?
Just no one try to claim they won a beefcake contest at Modern. We know you’re lying.
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