Saturday morning, November 19 is the D.C. Help the Homeless Walkathon, and a friend at The Atlantic Monthly informs me that his fine, fine publication has volunteered to sponsor a gaggle of walkers. Or, um, thon-ers. Whichever. Anyway, the upshot is, if I know you even vaguely and you feel like (and think you’ll be […]

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I should say in advance that I’m primarily directing this at people I already know and friends of friends, but: My current housemates are planning to move out at the end of December. That means two rooms—a small and a medium-sized one—are opening up in my house on 13th and Florida NW, in the U […]

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There’s a decent looking lineup of local bands slated to perform at a D.C. benefit for Katrina’s victims this Friday evening at A.U.

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Ah, top notch: Busboys and Poets, a huge bookstore/cafe with free WiFi is opening up right around the corner from me next week. Now I know who to sue when I get obese from not having to walk over to Tryst when I get sick of working from home.

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Alas, it looks as though I’ll be out of town for the VideoGame Expo that comes to town this weekend, but those of you remaining should check it out. I’d really go more out of curiosity than fandom—I haven’t regularly played video games since high school. So something like this is probably more my speed.

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Well, this is handy: There’s apparently a blogger living within a few blocks of me who does restaurant and nightlife reviews. Maybe I’ll go check out this place Tabaq tonight…

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Belle Waring of John & Belle Have a Blog and Crooked Timber is in town, and Jim Henley has called a Blogorama. Pop by Rendezvous Lounge at 18th and Kalorama in Adams Morgan tonight, starting at 7:30.

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Some fun stuff this week. Tonight: Liberteaser/Liberty Belles happy hour at Saint-Ex around 6pm. Then a little later in the evening, the soon-to-be-defunct Q and not U are playing one of their final shows (free!) at Fort Reno. Wednesday: A DC Metblog Party at Felix. Then a screening at Stead Park of The Rocky Horror […]

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(1) Why is Dressy Bessy still playing the backstage at Black Cat when they’re transparently better than 90–95 percent of the bands that play the main stage? (2) Why am I posting about this publicly and increasing (well, by some incredibly tiny margin) the chances it’ll be horrifically crowded or sell out?

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It’s this Thursday evening at Karma on 19th and I; I’m gonna try to pop by for a while.

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