DC Blogs Noted:
Safety Statistics Make Me Angry
True Believer (serving in Iraq)
Our writer, serving in Iraq, brings a strong mix of wit and smarts to his posts. When not in Iraq he’s a DC metro area resident, according to DC Cookie, who
recommended this blog and wrote: He's a really good writer, so I expect big things. The post linked above is a rant and analysis military’s safety statistics, but also read his most recent post. An excerpt: Not only do the leaders of our military lack the backbone and moral honesty to adequately justify this war and the strategic imperative ... but they also lack the intellectual rigor to understand the tragic safety statistics they flog themselves and their troops with at every opportunity.
A Blogger Opportunity
DC Sleeps Alone Tonight
The TLC is coming to DC next month to shoot a show called Ultimate Blunders and they are looking for material. Yes, blunders – your blunders. DC Sleeps Alone Tonight was contacted by the show, and set up a Web site, Ultimate Blunders, for the show’s producers to tap. Our writer, who has been performing on-the-road in the Kennedy Center production, "Alexander and I'm Not...Going to Move,” explains what’s going on. An excerpt from her own blunder post:
Backstage before the scene, I rushed through the change
into the nighty, and realized that I had no place to pin the mic pac. I didn't want to stop the flow of the rehearsal, so I stuck the mic pac into the back of my panties and charged onstage ….
Also Noted
Snow debrief: My boss appeared in my doorway giggling, "We're the only ones left in the office. The southerners all wigged out early." DC Donut.
Why I left New England: In DC, the snowfall is pleasant, whereas in Cambridge it is malicious. The Welcome Matt.
Haiku Tu: Icy Cold Blue Balls Edition. From Militant Hedonist. (This gets Reya’s Best Haiku of the Day Award)
An Open Letter to the Guy in the Alley (Get Your Mind Our of the Gutter) Dragon in Retrograde.
Wonder what a dorker is? For metro riders it is a "person who crowds or blocks Metro doors, making it difficult for others to exit or enter promptly." From Lost in America
Snow debrief: My boss appeared in my doorway giggling, "We're the only ones left in the office. The southerners all wigged out early." DC Donut.
Why I left New England: In DC, the snowfall is pleasant, whereas in Cambridge it is malicious. The Welcome Matt.
Haiku Tu: Icy Cold Blue Balls Edition. From Militant Hedonist. (This gets Reya’s Best Haiku of the Day Award)
An Open Letter to the Guy in the Alley (Get Your Mind Our of the Gutter) Dragon in Retrograde.
Wonder what a dorker is? For metro riders it is a "person who crowds or blocks Metro doors, making it difficult for others to exit or enter promptly." From Lost in America
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