“What are you reading?”

…there is a fear on my part that translations miss some aspect, that I am missing out on something which I can only approximate an understanding of, but as in a commercial roll versus my aunt’s sweet rolls, you can only know it’s missing if you’ve had one before. It is a pain I cannot quite describe, almost heart-breaking to know that there is something which I am denied knowing because I do not have the means to get at it.

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OBE is not an option

There are two events of note this weekend, one a staple of life that signals the opening of summer and a parade of other people’s memories, and the other a one time event which is noteworthy because it will be my memory.
The first is Rolling Thunder, which runs through the weekend, where motorcycle riding veterans [...]

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We were never…

Saturday: An evening that began with a Crack and ended with a warm cab ride home was well worth the effort of going. Certainly there were a few people whose constant annoyance was as natural as their breathing but they left before the roller skates of the Xanadu parody closed out the show, and we [...]

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I like to listen

After my trek up and down Rockville Pike (which always feels like playing chicken with fate) I found myself hungry and with time on my hands, so on my way back in on the red line I stopped at Dupont. Teaism didn’t have the double french toast as it was a weekday but they did [...]

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

In a deadpan voice the title gets the tone about right. Now I’ve always said you can’t get everything you want in this life, and in no arena is this more true than in elections. Compromises are often necessary and even good, but it would be nice to have enough information. Thankfully I have all [...]

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A funny thing happened on the way to…

If you haven’t been tuned to this channel for long you’ll have missed the delightful pitfalls I saunter into regularly. And by saunter I usualy mean stumble into as a figurative device. That is until now:

Partly related to this, I’m reminded of why I hate our local Ward 2 representative Jack Evans, and his inability [...]

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Août

It isn’t absinthe that brings forth thoughts but rather strong, sweet and iced black tea, clouded by condensation on the glass, a salute to the warm weather of this new month. June is always the foundling, stumbling uncertainly between spring and summer, followed by the mostly erect teenager July, with the odd mood swing veering [...]

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State

You will never see just one style of writing, as I like a flair for the dramatic on occasion, and am heavily influenced by whatever I’m reading, so the tone shifts and flutters around on occasion.
I attended a gentleman’s birthday celebration at a local watering hole on the boundary of old Zone 1, who [...]

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Quiet on the Po-to-mac

When everyone else rushes off to the beach for the weekend, I stay. Three day weekends of national importance are always consumed with too much stress, strain and concern unfitting for a holiday. Given the tenor, I have long found staying in town, which while never silent, is quieter and warmer in the absence of [...]

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The perfect Sunday

As days go, it has not been a good day, distilled as it was into only 4 hours of waking time. I ponder whether I will fire off an e-mail after this declaring that someone who has kept something of mine may either mail it back to me (as he is making no effort to [...]

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