Clever name

Originally uploaded by tiffany bridge.

As seen on my way to work the other day… you’ll probably have to click through to make out the name on the truck…

Peed Plumbing.

I wonder if they do emergency service?

(Why yes, I AM 12 today. It’s Friday, and time for frivolity.)

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How hot is it in Washington DC today? Hot enough for a shave and a haircut?

While the lad here is too young to get a shave, he is losing his fade for a summer buzz cut. I was in Fusion Day Spa too, for my own summer-close trim.

Its just too hot to have long hair in a DC summer!

Which brings me to today’s question: do you get shorn in the summer? And if not, why not? Outside those that need long hair for their glam-fashion jobs, I don’t understand why people keep long hair in the summer.

Its too humid to do anything with it and if you wash long hair, it will take hours to dry. Worse, you sweat way more with long hair than short, and the stink stays in long hair too.

Summers are made for short hair.

Photo by DC Metroblogger

Have you tried to buy razor blades at CVS recently?

Needing to shave, I went into a CVS in my new hood to buy my Mach 3 razor blades and faced this plastic menace.

Designed by people who forgot that to buy a product, I have to be able to get it first, it took me a full five minutes of wrestling with the plastic bin, including bloodying my knuckles to get the damn package out.

Oddly enough this is just this CVS store’s razor blade menace. My old CVS at 15th and K had a pull & lever system I would watch others fight with and the one at 14th and Irving has a third system I care not to re-visit.

Might there be a more humane and efficient way for CVS to stock razor blades?

Effin’ fudge. Are you supposed to get Seasonal Affective Disorder in mid-April? Or at this point is it Seasonal Pissed-off Disorder? Weeks ago I had turned off my heating system’s pilot flame for the year. Wrong. I had packed away my sweaters for the year. Wrong.

The Cherry Blossoms have come and fallen but here we are still walking through cold, wet, biting muck and knowing we’re one day closer to the swampy 100-degree oppression that will come way too soon after this dreary Sunday and tomorrow’s predicted 40 mph wind gusts.

Worst of all it’s made me become the very thing I hate — someone who talks about the weather a lot.

This is the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church tonight in Mt Pleasant: a Good Friday procession right out of the Old Country.

Be it anywhere in South America or South Italy, the procession was the same. There was a walking cross, a Jesus Christ laid to rest, the Virgin Mary, and even Roman soldiers all prepared for Easter Sunday..

Best of all, music right from the Godfather blaring loud and ominous over the crowd as it slowly staggered across 16th Street and down Mt. Pleasant Avenue.

Now that I am almost a homeowner in Petworth with my half-million dollar mortgage, I am going to miss these moments of Catholic culture in Columbia Heights.

Yes, traffic will flow faster on Easter, but the sounds of Latin mass (in Spanish, Vietnamese, French, and Haitian Creole) will be less.

Here’s something I found out about that sounds interesting:

“Have you ever wanted to learn how to play African drums, change a bike tire, or fry a turkey? Or do you have a secret skill that you’re dyingto share, like “How to Juggle”? On April 28th, you’ll have a chance to
do this all and more, for free:

Learn-a-Palooza DC is a first-of-its-kind community organized event happening on Saturday, April 28th, 2007. From 10AM-6PM businesses, homes, and community centers in Adams Morgan, U St, Dupont, and Columbia Heights will open their doors to hold short “workshops” on
every topic under the sun, from “Intro to Yoga”, to “Beat the Sugar Blues”, to “How to Learn 19 Languages”, to “Acting 101″, to “Buying Your First Home”, to “Understanding Your Camera”.

Participating venues so far include the DC Arts Center (DCAC), Potter’s House, Transformer Gallery, City Bikes, Emergence Community Arts Collective, Red Onion Records and Books, Patricia M. Sitar Center, Affinity Lab, City Fitness Gym, and many more.

For B. Stanley, Executive Director of DCAC, Learn-a-Palooza is a chance to not only give back to the community but also attract new people. “DCAC has served the Adams Morgan neighborhood and Washington area for eighteen years presenting high-caliber, challenging works of art and theater. We hope to get some new faces in the door who will come for a Learn-a-Palooza class and then make a point to come back for an exhibit or show.”

Flickr photo by wfyurasko

Here in Pentagon City we got our deepest snowfall total of the season, a whole 3½ inches. How much snow did you get?

This guy wants to know how long until Opening Day

Flickr photo by wfyurasko. Nationals cap by MC Hamme

Here’s a bit of post-Katrina fallout I hadn’t heard about. Last year, Congress passed the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act, which requires local jurisdictions to include in their emergency evacuation plans means to evacuate pets along with people. As a result, counties around DC are coming up with all sorts of pet evacuation contingencies, including mobile centers stocked with pet carriers and supplies so that people don’t have to abandon their pets in the event of an emergency.

It’s controversial, of course, and I’m sure there will be more than a few of you who will chime in to tell me how ridiculous it is, but I think it’s great, and here’s why:
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When I wander around the city, I always wonder what radndom utility boxes actually do.

Walking back from a meeting, I saw this one open. At the corner of 14th and I Streets NW seems to be a telephone switching box. Or at least the guys standing around it were from Verizon.

Look at the close up view, recognize any equipment?

How many of these urban utility boxes actually perform some required service, and how many are just relics of the past, like police call boxes now made into art?

I wonder how cleaner our sidewalks would be if we removed all the un-used detritus that clutters our egress.

Might we have room for more trees instead?

Image taken from our L.A. overlords

By now everybody knows about Boston treating a the Aqua Teen Hunger Force guerrilla ad campaign as potential terrorism. Nine other cities, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, were also included, but NOT Washington D.C.

Seriously, how could they skip D.C.? Sure the ATL is a big southern city, Portland and Seattle are cool in the Pacific Northwest, and Austin rocks, but are any of them as important as D.C.? I think not. I have a query into Adult Swim to find out why we were excluded.