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Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew?
The Penn Quarter keeps getting sweeter! We just found out that a week ago Giffords started offering bulk candy for sale at $9.99 a pound. There are a wide variety of offerings that looked pretty good to our hungry eyes (all the office Halloween candy has long since run out). And [...]
Relaxing Their Standards?
The Nissan Xterra with MD plates has been parked on 9th ST, directly across the street from the FBI building, for weeks now. You can see the parking tickets piling up on the windshield, bags & boxes in the backseats, and a coagulating Starbucks beverage in the cup holder. We assume the FBI [...]
What’s My Downtown Condo Really Worth?
Hearing the recent news that the monthly median house price has fallen for the first time in 40 years and 2007 was the worst sales year on record for new homes, you can’t help but wonder what the impact is on our own downtown slice of DC. The practical evidence comes in the form of foreclosure and [...]
Let The People Eat Donuts!
They say a picture says a thousand words. Instead of writing a couple of thousand words, we’re posting a couple of pictures. Dunkin Donuts is certifiably open at 601 F Street, NW, and the posted hours are from 6 am to 10 pm every day of the week. For seating, there are three two tops along the [...]
Creative Storage Solutions
Where do you keep your belongings when you don’t have a home? The answer for the homeless in Downtown DC appears to be newspaper boxes (well the free newspaper boxes anyway). The Onion, the Epoch Times, and the Express boxes seem to be the most popular Penn Quarter daily lockers. Although the [...]
Updating My Celebrity List
Most everyone has a celebrity list, Mrs. Columbo has one (George Clooney) and I’ve got one too. My choice always elicits groans from woman, and secret agreement from men: Tara Reid.
But move over Tara, I’m officially updating my list: Athena, the goddess of Wisdom & War is now at the top of the [...]
Does That Come Supersized?
We noticed that the McDonald’s on E ST (next to the Artisan) has the following sign in their window:
Which leads us to the following two questions:
1. If we pretend to work for the FBI in order to qualify for the special, are we guilty of impersonating a federal officer?
2. Why isn’t there a [...]
Scam Artist Working Streets of Penn Quarter
It’s late. It’s dark. You’re standing on the corner of a deserted street waiting for the light to change when a woman appears. She’s out of breath, crying, shaking like a leaf. She tells you that her car has been towed and that she has no money for a cab. She’d take the Metro, but [...]
One Cool Metro Conductor
Metro has one cool cat driving those trains. I don’t know his name nor his face but I know his voice. You know the guy. He’s the one with the silky smooth vocal chords you can understand. They’re so clear you think you’re listening to FM radio. Some of the conductors sound bored or rushed or [...]
We Could Use A Man Like Iron Eyes Cody Again
This is no condemnation of the March for Lifer’s specifically, instead it’s a condemnation of all groups who use and subsequently abuse the National Mall & surrounding neighborhoods.
The above photo (corner of Constitution Ave & 7th ST) is only a small sample of the litter spread around the Mall Tuesday after the march. No matter [...]