March 11, 2008
Go Home Already: Once You Pop, You Can't Stop
>> "District health officials and needle-exchange advocates aren't content to just reintroduce needle exchange. They want to reconceptualize it." [AlterNet]
>> WTOP radio has a shiny new newsroom. [WTOP]
>> Photos of last night's manhole explosion on 14th Street, and resulting SUV flambée. [City Desk]
>> Hilarious send-up an article from georgetowner.com that pegs the new center of D.C.'s indie music universe as being City Tavern Club in Georgetown, which requires guests wear a collared shirt and jacket. [BrightestYoungThings]
>> Arlington County police have arrested a 43-year-old man in the sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl 15 years ago after re-submitting genetic evidence from the crime scene to a national DNA database. [WaPo]
>> Metro is adding a new six-car train to the Green Line to handle the rush of travelers expected to flood the line before and after Washington Nationals games. [Examiner]
Photo by gingher
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WTOP, unlike Radio One, didn't get a handout from District Government.
This manhole explosion follows on ones in Georgetown several years ago, and Logan Circle about 2 1/2 years ago. After each explosion, the city reassured residents that they've 'fixed' the problem(s) and that this won't happen again.
just checkin to see if the avatar I finally decided to add works...
damn I cant see it
Lab Rat,
DC man holes are little methane factories. Add that to an aging electrical infrastructure, manhole explosions will be with us for a long time. The City should just come on an say its part of life in the City, deal with it!
Sweet...its there
Big L, if you're going for part of the uptown's façade, i can see it just fine...
Yeah I rush reading through things and didnt see the 30minute disclaimer..thanks for the heads up though..appreciate it.
It truly saddens me that everyone seems to buy the party line that these underground explosions are just electrical short circuits and methane buildup, when right-thinking people have known for years that the 14th Street corridor has been a haven for CHUDs and a locus for vril, deros, and other hollow earth activities. When will you gentrifyers realize all that bass-heavy house music and condo construction has not only awoken the Elder Gods but the advanced supersonic aluminum nazi hell creatures as well? And those guys really need their beauty sleep.
So don't come crying to me when some detrimental robot emerges from the sewers outside Marvin and eats both your $15 hamburger and most of your upper torso.
Monkey, don't forget Occam's razor: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is best. In other words, its a border skirmish between Morlock tribes.
Just let those Morlock bastards TRY and start something. We'll sic the Clifton Street rockchuckers on their Edgar Winter asses.
I feel sorry for the first one to try and buy a forty of Steel Reserve at the corner bodega. "Blue boy, you ain't from around here, is you?"
Lolz, you said "man hole explosion."
On a different note..My cousin used to work at a grocery store and his co-workers and he called maxi-pads "manhole covers".
"Metro is adding a new six-car train to the Green Line to handle the rush of travelers expected to flood the line" FOR TARGET.
re: the additional green line train.
It's nice that they're doing that for Nats games, but how about doing it every damn morning around 8:30 when there is an 8-10 minute wait for a train that is so packed only half of the people standing onthe platform can get on?
Don't think Metro can squeeze in another train or two into its schedule? Fine--how about making every Green Line train 8 cars? Last week, in the peak of rush hour (and after a 9 minute wait for a train), the train that comes had only 4 cars.