August 22, 2008
Morning Roundup: No Need to Work All Day Edition
Welcome to Friday, D.C. We hope you manage to get an early start on your weekend, since there sadly aren't that many more of the season to go around. To the ten percent of you who last year reported that your entire office gets half-day Fridays during the month of August, well done. To the rest of you, start coming up with a good reason to leave early. At the very least, pick up an ice cream cone for yourself on the way back from lunch. It's summer! For a limited time only.
Man Found Dead in Parking Garage Elevator Shaft: An unidentified man was found dead in an elevator shaft of a downtown parking garage. The body was discovered at about 5 a.m. this morning, having been crushed underneath a moving platform. The AP take on the story was that the body was found "near the White House," since it is located he garage is located a block away, next to the Mills Building at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue that houses several law firms.
Lew Defends Construction Concerns: After news broke earlier this week that construction at many of D.C.'s public schools would not be complete on time, construction chief Allen Lew told the Post that all classrooms and common areas in schools under renovation would be ready on Monday, the first day of school. Lew also pointed his finger at the D.C. Council for their delay in approving parts of the construction funding.
Briefly Noted: Homeless people demonstrate outside Mayor Fenty's house ... Caceres ordered to remain in jail ... Empty Metrobus slams into Alexandria apartment.
This Day in DCist: In 2007, the agency that had employed pants judge Roy Pearson was being reviewed, and in 2006, we were griping about Verizon gouging its customers.
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Is 11:02 a new record for posting the morning roundup?
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our half day fridays ended last week :(
but they started in june, so i guess i can't complain.
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So, another day of corpses and vehicle accidents. Is there NO good news in DC today? NONE? I'll start. I managed to find my lost virginity! Turns out that a crippled newsie with the Wondrous Vulva Puppet had it. I made her give it back.
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Sweet jebus this is late...
hell...LAist already had a post up hours before the morning roundup appeared...they're three hours behind us...not to mention they're Californians...we're supposed to be their betters...their BETTERS...
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reminds me of my teens n twennies when waking before 12 noon was unnecessary and starting the day included two spins of any Hendrix album.
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"slams into Alexandria apartment" is an understatement, more like "forced sodemy"...ouch!
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It's called "Thursday night dcist staff happy hour." You try posting before 11am with a head full of Bubblegum Mugaritas and a toilet full of Ben's chili cheese fries.
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Holy crap, Monkey. May I ask the circumstances surrounding your "stumbling across" the vulva puppet?
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Can't wait for the Franklin Shelter to close ... that area and especially the park across the street is nothing but an open air homeless shelter. There must be better ways and better places to provide services to the homeless which still allow us to enjoy our precious downtown green spaces.
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dave - Let's just say I have a hard time following directions. You try fumbling with a pimple for 20 minutes thinking it's a clitoris.
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"Since the shelter opened in 2003, its central location has made it popular with many homeless people."
No kidding ... sounds like the requests and desires of "paying" residents too. Homeless rights (call me what you will) - you have the right to be homeless, but not the right to cheap room and board on prime real estate
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Whoa. Elevator shaft, or ME's post. Which is more shocking?
Where does he get those wonderful toys...
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can't have those homeless out in the open air!
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since imgoph still appears to be out in the republic of chad or somewhere, i'll say it: monkey, i was eating when i read your comment, and i had to stop. so gross. so funny. so erotica.
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Yes Disco - Nothing like having the honeless out where the "limousine liberals" from the bubs can come by to drop off food, balnkets, clothing, etc... then they can go back home & feel so good about themselves. While we the taxpayers, deal with the pan-handling, littler, urination & defecation, etc.
And that on top of paying riduculous taxes (income & properyt) taxes a year.
CITY LIVING - nothing like what the advertisements make it out to be.
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CITY LIVING - nothing like what the advertisements make it out to be.
That's odd. I distinctly recall watching a DC Board of Tourism ad involving smiling panhandlers and grinning incontinent homeless people. Totally sold me on the place. Although as a member of the Sierra Club I did find it troubling that they often used squirrels in lieu of toilet paper, but "when in Rome."
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Hey, it's good for the squirrels, let's em have a job.
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Hey, I've got your job right here!
[points at disgruntled squirrel combing feces out of fur, cursing]