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Where The Sidewalk Etiquette Ends
We don’t want to go all Emily Post on you, but there are certain things you should be doing because they are the right thing to do. When you see a parent with a stroller trying to enter a building, you hold the door open for them. On crowded city sidewalks during the rain, you […]
The Early Bird Gets The Gummy Worm
Maybe this doesn’t qualify as the photo of the week, but it was too good to pass up. This morning we caught the above bird (is that a sparrow? albatross?) on F Street trying to drag home a morning snack. We don’t know if he eventually got it off the ground, but he managed to […]
We May Have Located Jimmy Hoffa
We’ve seen them popping up all over the Mall and surrounding areas. First a spray painted outline, about 2 feet square. A few days later the square is a plywood covered hole in the ground. Next plywood is covering the concrete pour. After that, when the plywood is removed, a cement box remains, roughly 2′ […]
Brian’s Song
Our post last week noting the bucket of fried chicken at Central reminded us of another Central post we always meant to write and never got around to. Just as Holmes had Watson, Kirk had Spock, and Gibbs has DiNozzo, we at one time had a bartender named Brian (minds out of the gutter please, […]