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fuckyeahdc: tsunamis: abudak: The Washington Monument,...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:59:25 -0500

tsunamis:

abudak:

The Washington Monument, Capitol, and WWII memorial from the plane.

Great shot! Now I wish I was flying in and out of DCA (to/from South Carolina) for Christmas; instead, I am loading and unloading out of the 1970s-era ghetto Greyhound station tucked in several blocks behind Union Station (with all due respect to the people who live near the DC Greyhound station, forgive the implications of that description, I think most, however, will agree it is the most apt; it isn’t the area, per se, that is ghetto, just the pathetic bus station).

Hollywood vs. New York « Goodie Bag via kottke

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:50:00 -0500

Hollywood vs. New York « Goodie Bag

via kottke

fuckyeahdc: highdynamicrange: One and Two Logan Circle: A...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:29:45 -0500

fuckyeahdc:

highdynamicrange:

One and Two Logan Circle:
A magnificent old mansion on Logan Circle in Washington, DC, recently restored.

I like how the windows reflect the sky, but the high dynamic range turns the trees neon orange which adds too much of an impressionistic touch in an otherwise non-impressionistic photo. Still, not a bad shot and Logan Circle has come full circle and once again being recognized as the gem it is.

"With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed..."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:15:31 -0500

“With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a...

Four Police Officers Killed in Ambush Near Tacoma - NYTimes.com

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:14:19 -0500

Four Police Officers Killed in Ambush Near Tacoma - NYTimes.com: This is gut-wrenching. In NYC or...

fuckyeahdc: (via meghanreed) wow … you don’t think they’re...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:56:52 -0500

fuckyeahdc:

(via meghanreed)

wow … you don’t think they’re bathing in the reflecting pool do you? Maybe the Potomac.

This is the probably the Tidal Basin bathing beach; see pictures at shorpy.com, such as this one involving measuring women’s bathing suits

rulesformyunbornson: REQUIRED LISTENING: Rufus Wainwright,...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:54:00 -0500

rulesformyunbornson:

REQUIRED LISTENING: Rufus Wainwright, “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk”

(for Amy and memories of the old Gramercy Park Hotel)

Good listening for the moment. My current vice - as I sit here taking in the emptiness that is the Friday after a small (albeit very enjoyable) Thanksgiving - is a bottle of Chianti. I hope my relatives don’t think I’m an alcoholic when they notice the empty bottle in the recycling bin (I bought 2 yesterday, no one else drank red, so I drank one bottle over the course of 3 hours).

"What Rove requires is what Palin requires: total amnesia of what they just said or did. There is..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:06:16 -0500

“What Rove requires is what Palin requires: total amnesia of what they just said or did. There...

"This second turkey is far too handsome for his pudgy, clumsy bride, but they have bonded. The..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00:27 -0500

“This second turkey is far too handsome for his pudgy, clumsy bride, but they have bonded. The...

pullmyfoamfinger: booyahgrandma: jakelodwick: The designboom...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:59:11 -0500

pullmyfoamfinger:

booyahgrandma:

jakelodwick:

The designboom blog write about photographer Christopher Payne’s new book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,

a collection of large-format photographs of seventy institutions in thirty US states, shot between 2002 and 2008. massive state-funded mental hospitals, built to warehouse the mentally ill, were a feature of the american landscape for centuries. emptied out in the 1970s and 80s, they now sit abandoned.

I liked this comment, from “zenondudasculpture.com”:

While it may be true that many of these institutions now lay empty what is also true is that the restraints of straps and walls is now replaced by drugs.

via wintercheck, who said, “I could live in this room.”

You can thank President Ronald Reagan for closing those mental institutions in the 70s and 80s. First closing state institutions as the Governor of California and then doing so nationwide the rate of homeless men and women in the country drastically increased. With no federally-funded mental institutions these mentally ill people had no place to live except the streets.

Congress, after noticing an increase in crime and brutal murders, tried to pass legislation (crafted by none other than the late Sen. Kennedy himself) that would fix the problem but the newly-elected Reagan vetoed it. This veto on August 13, 1981 was the end of federally-funded community health care centers.

And now, 28 years later, we still have more homeless people than we could ever care for — a large majority of which are, sadly, veterans.

I’m sure this is only one related issue among many, though I suspect a major one. It is disheartening to realize how obvious this result should have been in hindsight.

The Pour - Amari - The Italian Cure for Overeating - NYTimes.com

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:35:50 -0500

The Pour - Amari - The Italian Cure for Overeating - NYTimes.com

Scenes of Washington: Neon - Greater Greater Washington

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:48:52 -0500

Scenes of Washington: Neon - Greater Greater Washington

Blake Gopnik - Cask ale is making a comeback - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:42:29 -0500

Blake Gopnik - Cask ale is making a comeback - washingtonpost.com

The Pony-Tail Smackdown - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:13 -0500

The Pony-Tail Smackdown - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Where’s the NCAA in all of...

theimpossiblecool: Springsteen. …in back-in-the-day...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:41:22 -0400

theimpossiblecool:

Springsteen.

…in back-in-the-day Asbury Park?

vanmega: robotindisguise: Jamie Oliver’s iPhone App: 20 Minute...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:28:08 -0400

vanmega:

robotindisguise:

Jamie Oliver’s iPhone App: 20 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver has released a new iPhone app 20 Minute Meals, a self-contained digital mini-cookbook that sets the bar really, really high. It features 50 recipes with an integrated shopping list sorted by grocery store aisle, step-by-step instructional photos, and over 90 minutes of video clips with Jamie Oliver teaching basic kitchen skills like sharpening knives and chopping onions. It has metric and US measurements, and allows for adjusting portion sizes based on the amount of people. There’s even a shake-to-get-a-random-recipe feature.

I’m down with this!

2009, meet Future. The 1950s would be proud.

"It was written by someone identified as plucche."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:26:23 -0400

"It was written by someone identified as plucche.": barthel: The “quoting from web sources” section...

bike (via volcanojw)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:36:13 -0400

bike (via volcanojw)

I think I found my Halloween...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:07:01 -0400

I think I found my Halloween costume

teekayvee:

iheartmyart:

tagumayu:bonchan:jick5160:

thinkupstudio:(via nosecontacto)

Swine Flu In The Hundred Acre Wood

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:32:34 -0400