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Happy New Year's Eve, bammas! Hook 'em 2009 woo!
» McClatchy ran a public service announcement earlier this month about the real reason for the season. "Right before New Year's Eve is our highest sales peak," testified a rep from Trojan brand condoms. Stock up before you get your NYE on, 's all I'm saying.
» NBC4 reports that the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has finished repairs on some 80 feet of pipe along River Road in Bethesda. The beleaguered lane is gonna be all flossy for New Year's Eve, which is all that any of us can ever hope for.
» A Golden Triangle business committee hopes to give the Midas touch to bicycle racks around Farragut Square. The Washington Business Journal reports the story, but blogger Philippa Hughes has the images for what you might expect.
» If you don't think you can stand 2008 for one more second — think again!
» The WaBizJo surveys a band of local entrepreneurs and comes up with a list of awesome business ventures that won't materialize in 2009 due to the credit crunch. That comedy/dance/yoga/cafe complex you have always dreamed about for 14th and U Streets NW? Still a twinkle in Constantine Stavropoulos's eye. Oh, and credit worries? We are leaving that shit in 2008, y'all.
» Does anyone have a flask I can borrow?
» The Obamas will be staying at the Hay-Adams for two weeks. But you knew that already, because you read all the DCist comments. For that rare unfaithful reader: FirstRead's account.
» DCist wants to thank you all for an excelsior 2008. Check out some of your favorite items from the year that was in the District Of. A quick refresher: Stephen Colbert's portrait, Dave Weigel's awesome post on Obama birthers, Murky Coffee's battle with teh Internet, scofflaw bicyclists, the debut of le BoltBus, the woes of the D.C. quarter, Megan Carpentier's guide for interns, a dance dance revolution at the Jefferson Memorial, and last — but by no means least — the greatest gift of all: metered cabs.
Up 2009! Pop some bubbly, and The DCist will see you in the new year.
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That Sanchez bloke has some wicked arthritis, or sumthin'.
That's Ol' Dirty Sanchez, tha Mexican Gangsta.
Comedy/dance/yoga/cafe? WTF ever happened to the Elizabethan revenge drama/stripper pole/contortionist/colonic irrigation clinic? Damn you, Bernie Madoff! God damn you to hell!
2009 is not getting off to a good start.
Palace of Wonders sounds close. Then again, Monkey, you could open it up as Junkpunchers: After Hours.
Okay, the guy flashing the blog gang sign really needs to be punched in the face, HARD, for the common good.
Okay, the guy flashing the blog gang sign really needs to be punched in the face, HARD, for the common good.
I don't normally advocate violence, but seeing a gang sign flashed by a skinny, fresh-faced, sportcoated white guy, who couldn't locate South Central if he was standing on the corner of Florence and Normandie with a Thomas Guide in hand, does, well, inspire fantasies of physical punishment.
...but seeing a gang sign flashed by a skinny, fresh-faced, sportcoated white guy, who couldn't locate South Central if he was standing on the corner of Florence and Normandie with a Thomas Guide in hand...
Yes, all of that, and the fact that his bloodsesque finger sign spells out "B-L-O-G." I mean, come on, the sport coat, the jeans and t-shirt, the pseudo-gang sign for "B-L-O-G"... like I said, HARD, for the common good.
oh... BLOG... dang I was so close, I feel like I forgot to "carry the one". Yeah, I thought he was spelling bbq.
Looks like Junkpunchers: After Hours has its first customer. And remember, at Junkpunchers, bloggers in sport jackets never pay a cover charge. Satisfaction guaranteed or DOUBLE your donkey punches to the taint back! That's our promise to you, Mister Honkey. And don't forget to get your Cockpunch Club Card punched. For every ten cockpunches, you get a free 2x4 nailed to your nuts. You even get to keep the lumber!
See I thought he was flashing 'dbag', you know, representin' himself. My resolution for 2009: kick this guys teeth in.
On the article about the extra second being added to Greenwich time, I'm not really understanding how the current process for adjusting time based on the atomic clock is any different. It sounds like the atomic clocks are already establishing the correct time, it's just that the extra seconds aren't added back to the 'official' clock for 6 months to a year. The official time reference point would just switch from a clock that falls behind and catches back up to one that always stays correct. The status quo does not seem to 'stay with the sun' at all, as they are trying to claim, unless I'm missing something..