March 2012
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Best of D.C. 2012 →
I wrote mostly about bikes, bars, and booze (also BBQ, Korean) for this year’s issue, and also poured a lot of my soul, energy, and free time into making it happen. So you should pick it up somewhere today or read online my and my colleagues’ picks.
“Miracle’s truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn...”
– Miracle Ice Cream, Adrienne Rich
R.I.P., Adrienne Rich.
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What happened after I read a thing on Thought...
Matt: I look forward to the day you announce that you're moving to a tiny shack somewhere to write the most butthurt book since Catcher in the Rye
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“Ariana Reines, now thirty, has a curriculum vitae that could make her look like...”
– Richard Hell, Coeur de Lion
bookforum reviews in particular make me want to give up because I will never be as good as the writers featured.
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Shit I Have Googled Today:
“move to korea to teach english”
“move to anywhere to teach english”
“learn russian in siberia”
“how much $$ do i need to travel in europe”
“how to build single-speed bike”
“why does no one make tiny-ass bike frames”
“what is $37,000 after taxes”
“graphic design associates programs in d.c.”
...
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matthewedwards:
theramptosilverspring:
nesbittslimesoda:
In college I used to go out on Thursdays, go to O’Rourkes, split a few pitchers and smoke a million cigarettes. Now it’s 10 p.m. on Thursday and I’m in my underwear eating two hot dogs in bed and washing it down with ginger ale.
If it helps I am in college and sitting in my bed in a slip reading ya fiction and drinking water
Well...
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newschallenge:
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Buy Washington City Paper and transform it into a non-profit membership organization.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
While many people are exploring non-profit models for journalism, this is a unique opportunity: can a modern non-profit model be applied to an existing for-profit...
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#velvetloungeisweird
#velvetloungeisweird
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“18. Every eighteen seconds, a baby is born. And someone starts blogging.”
– 22 More Reasons to Stop Writing
At this point, serving coffee and/or working retail is looking really good.
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Fugazi - “Arpeggiator”
Spending my...
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“I woke in a gold dress
you in jeans.
Morning filled
wine bottles
in the...”
– Rebecca Lindenberg, “Aubade”
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City Paper, Sister Papers Cut Pay, Staffing →
Not to be all, “If you’ve ever thought about paying me to do something, now is a good time to tell me,” but…if you’ve ever thought of paying me to do something, now is a good time to tell me.
(Shitty news about how little I am getting paid aside, I am still so incredibly honored to work for an amazing paper with a talented, erudite, and wonderfully kind staff.)
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Talking like a jerk except you are an actual jerk:... →
anaforo:
theremusthavebeenaleak:
“I was raised in Maryland, where flip flops come out in April (or never get put away); we don’t have fire flies, we have “lightnin’ bugs”; “Old Bay” is mandatory, “y’all” is a proper noun; chicken is fried; crabs are steamed; french fries come w/ gravy; sweet tea…
“sweet tea is the house wine”
Didn’t know that Maryland had suddenly become Southwest...
