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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 various newspaper companies […]
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 chart. […]
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 […]
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 […]