DCist: Go Home Already: Dark Passages

Over the River

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:04:06 -0500

A full transcript of Cory's interview can be found here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdfgwqj_19hf57mhdp

Over the River

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:41:10 -0500

Holy shit I messed up monkeyrotica's name. Forgive me the both of you. At one time I used cut and paste, but I was trying to move to a higher place.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:44:56 -0500

With the new wool seats coming online, they're worried folks might shoplift the orange "classic" Metro seat cushions.

Nate

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:28:48 -0500

Wait, seriously . . . they were searching people leaving the Metro? That seems insane.

Fluxgirl

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:21:25 -0500

Did the Boing Boing guy arrive by skateboard?

Rize

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:36:42 -0500

Speaking of things running backwards at the metro. This morning they were doing random searches, of people leaving McPherson Square metro... When I refused the search I was told, "You will have to leave the metro." Wait, wasn't that what I was doing in the first place?

UStreet

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:36:18 -0500

I was about to get on the stopped escalator @ Gallery Place when this happened. There was no operator in sight so no key had been used. After it stopped and they cleared all the people and luggage off the ground other people started climbing the stopped escalator again. But the escalator turned itself on AGAIN! Plus, this is the escalator from Green/Yellow up to Red that had been closed for 2 months for repairs. They had just completed all the repairs when this happened.

Kev29

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:35:47 -0500

"Wells is considering are that the closing hour could be 4 a.m., and that Sunday, Jan. 18 could be excluded." Design by committee - ruining good ideas for eons.

iAManugget

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:05:39 -0500

i am truly surprised no one has blamed bush, terrorists, scientologists, or armageddon. or palin. or imus.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:55:03 -0500

And don't get him started on that whole "IMGorph" fiasco. That one was a bigger schismic mess than the Babylonian Captivity.

IMGoph

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:50:01 -0500

over the river: as VP of pedantry around here, i'm going to point out that the name is monkeyrotica, not monkeyerotica

monkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:31:36 -0500

Holy cr@p! I amend my previous statement. After actually seeing what Chertoff looks like, my only question for him would be, "What's 'taters'', Precious?"

monkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:26:09 -0500

STILL waiting for dcist to issue me a press pass to cover these events. Or maybe Chertoff is AFRAID of the sort of hardhitting, probing, blood-engorged questions that come from Monkeyrotica Dot Com? Like "Who won the world series in 1928?" or "Do any fornicating?"

turkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:22:57 -0500

I have a hard time believing that this escalator just spontaneously went into reverse. Isn't a key required to switch them on?

Over the River

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:13:40 -0500

Herr MonkeyErotica, If Justice is to served, that would be the Judiciary Square Metrorail station, not Gallery Place. I shall add, if I was coming to work and the escalator reversed, I would take that as a sign to return home.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:55:48 -0500

For years, Metro's been denying that the green light under the escalators was Morlocks. Let the coverrup begin. Let justice be served or let the heavens fall! Let the lord of the black escalators come forth. Let justice be served upon him!

Over the River

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:08:45 -0500

Jerkoff doesn't know who Boing Boing is? One would think for as much (deserved) bad press he gets there he would have heard of them. Didn't Kip Hawley brief him?

cyrinaldi

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:15:02 -0500

Metrorail will operate rush hour service for 15 consecutive hours (4 a.m. to 7 p.m.), will stay open for two extra hours (until 2 a.m.). [wmata website] i hope they realize the trains should stay open longer!

300_sq_ft

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:57:35 -0500

OMG. Can you imagine if this would've happened on the Dupont station escalators? I've tried to master them, but I just cant - they give me the heebeejeebies.

UrsusMajeure

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:24:23 -0500

"an escalator at the Gallery Place Metro station suddenly stopped and went into reverse during the morning rush hour yesterday, throwing between 10 to 15 people backward." Holy crap - this might make me reconsider my running up and down the Rosslyn escalators every day for the last 10 or so years... getting thrown from those could be fatal.