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Good morning, Washington. Tonight's the night! The final game in the Caps/Penguins series will be played at the Verizon Center this evening, and if it's anything like the first six games in the series, it's going to be pretty exciting. Sadly, my own bandwagon-jumping is going to be foiled by some previously-bought concert tickets. But hopefully those of us who won't be watching the game can just listen for a celebratory roar emanating from Chinatown. For those of you who are dead-set on seeing it in person, WTOP says that tickets can be found online starting around $140.
New Chesapeake Preservation Initiative Announced: The Feds are trying to help save the bay, the Post reports. Yesterday the EPA announced the first executive order regarding the bay since the 80s. Local authorities will be getting more money and more regulatory support — including federal willingness to make politically unpopular regulation — as they try to clean up the Chesapeake. Some bay advocates are skeptical, though: the Post quotes some as saying that the goals being mulled by the EPA aren't aggressive enough; and the Examiner's writeup includes UMD professor Robert Nelson explaining that the EPA can't regulate agricultural runoff, which is a major source of Chesapeake Bay pollution.
City Backs Out of Deal With Metro: WTOP reports that D.C. is declining to make good on a promise to pay for relocating Metrobuses from a garage in Southeast near the stadium as part of a plan to free the property for redevelopment. Since payments have stopped the city has racked up a $1.2m tab, which it says it will pay by adjusting the sale price of a pending land deal with Metro elsewhere in the city. Metro officials seem displeased with the city's decision to back out of the Metrobus arrangement.
Arrests for Gang Stabbing Continue to Grow: The number of people implicated in the murder of Dennys Alfredo Guzman-Saenz has now grown to nine, according to WJLA. WTOP has a bit more context, explaining that the accused are members of a gang that considers itself a rival to another one with which Guzman-Saenz was associated (although he was apparently not a member). WJLA also notes that one of the accused men may also be responsible for some additional incidents of knife violence that occurred over the weekend on 14th Street.
Briefly Noted: Body found in Potomac confirmed to be boy who fell into river last month while fishing... Local man among those killed in Iraq base friendly-fire shooting... Virginia officials still don't know how much private health data was recently stolen by a hacker... Handicap parking placard theft ring broken up... Cocaine cheese!... WTOP is wrapping up its week-long series on sexting (yes, really)...
This Day In DCist: One year ago we chatted with Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver and Jonetta Rose Barras left Kojo Nnamdi's Politics Hour.
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It looks fine to me. Are you still seeing the problem? It's possible that a kind editor fixed the problem before I saw your comment.
I think these selfless youngsters are owed a debt of gratitude by the community. By choosing to stab eachother to death, they're making a conscious decision not to put the lives of their neighbors at risk. Local gangs who can't shoot straight and inevitably kill innocent bystanders should emulate this community-centric mode of competition elimination.
Also, one correction: it's not "a gang" it's "a club."
There's going to be a rumble Tonight!
The Jets are gonna have their day. Tonight!
JAZZ HANDS!!!
Gang violence is serious business
Cocaine Queso would be a great name for a band.
don't know if there will be a review of C.H.U.D. later, but let me just say that movie could have some of the slowest build-up to the "scary" parts in any "horror" movie i've ever seen.
daniel stern giving us lessons on how to more perfectly express our humanity, though, was priceless.
After my second viewing last night, I'm going to start referring to C.H.U.D. as a Home Alone prequel. Think about it -- you've got John Heard (who later played Peter McAllister in Home Alone) shooting photos before his big break (the underground people story and ensuing C.H.U.D. fallout) allowed his character move to a big house in the Chicago suburbs; there's also Daniel Stern, who's experience with the gas in the sewers obviously warped his mind and led him to a life of crime with Joe Pesci.
Obviously, Kim Greist was pregnant with Kevin. The timing all works!
Okay, I'll stop now.
aaron: i had similar thoughts (about the connections to home alone). are we certain that one of the C.H.U.D.s wasn't played by pesci?
and like i said last night, it's a damn shame that john goodman (and jay thomas) weren't cast in more important roles in that movie.
That's brilliant, Aaron. It's also possible that Stern believes that since Greist got bitten by the disembodied C.H.U.D. head, that perhaps the family is now genetically tainted. He latches onto Pesci not to burglarize them, but as a front to conceal his real objective: to destroy them all.
Home Alone has so many new layers now.
And no, no review, IMGoph. It would be a little weird of me to devote a whole post a 25 year old movie that isn't even playing publicly aside from last night. Plus I already gave it a capsule review in last week's Popcorn & Candy. At any rate, what a great turnout last night! Glad so many people came out.
C.H.U.D Alone!
why didn't you show up last night, deep?
I was there. Me and Mrs. CHUD. We had a thing...going on.
I thought it was a good show. The slasher short comedy beforehand and then that Robot vs Monkey video was great.
While the EPA cannot regulate ag as a point source, there is a mechanism for regulation through the Coastal Zone Act, which is run by the states under the joint oversight of the EPA and NOAA. EPA could revise their management guidance for nonpoint sources, which would force states to revise their rules accordingly.
Or, Congress could get off their ass.
Or....
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation could stop deceiving people about how to fix the bay... It's not like we don't know the sources of the pollution or how to solve the problems, but planting trees and telling farmers to put in erosion controls ain't going to fix the problem.
Dissolve the 501c3 CBF and create a c4 with a PAC and start playing the same game as everyone else. The polluters have strings in the VA, MD, PA, and WV legislatures as well as the federal govt. Meanwhile, the CBF avoids politics like the plague. The CBF has brought in millions of dollars over the years and done absolutely nothing to stop the bay from turning into the cesspool it is today.
After several years working in politics and trying to help the environmental groups as much as possible it's just disturbing how pathetic and out of touch most of these folks are.
It also wouldn't hurt for people to stop buying/eating so many skinless, boneless chicken breasts. The demand for mass produced chicken is way too high.
B-b-but, sputter, boneless skinless chicken breasts are the perfect metaphor for contemporary consumer society: a tasteless, neutral, hideous simulacra that's poisoning the planet! Think of all the grilled chicken caesar salads you're condemning to oblivion! What other food product can you use to convince yourself you're eating healthy while simultaneously drowning in 1,800 calorie cheese, butter, and cream sauces? And before you say "tilapia" I'll remind you that tilapia is not a fish. It is a fungus.
I've got a new commitment to Old Bay as well. I'm going to use some in my Baltimore pit beef marinade.
I do my part to support healthier DelMarVa foodways by eating nothing but scrapple.
Now someone's going to tell me that the Rapa, ummm, 'plant' is the Chesapeake's second largest polluter behind Perdue.
I used to be the loudest advocate of scrapple. That is, until I discovered livermush at Harris Teeter. It's ghetto paté, yo. Straight UP. All the richness of fois gras without the 'tude. And it goes great with everything: from eggs and bacon to fava beans and a nice chianti.
Have you ever had goetta? It's pretty awesome. Essentially German peasant pork mush opposed to to scrapple's Pennsylvania Dutch. With oats as the filler instead of cornmeal. Popular in Cincinnati.
Hm. Seems like if you just add some blood, you'd end up with black pudding.
Can I go ONE day without using the phrase, "Just add some blood?"
Livermush seems to be similar to liverwurst, but with an added bonus of more liver. Is that an accurate assessment?
So is sexting really the scourge of the nation? Spreading like wildfire? You got trouble? Right here in River City? Justification for a week long series? WTOP: Not the Enquirer, but almost.
You know, Tom, if the concert you're going to is the Thermals, they probably won't come onstage until after the game is over, since there are two openers. I usually hate being the guy who skips the opening acts but this is an exception. I plan on camping out in front of the closest TV to the Black Cat I can find that's airing the game and then running over for some (hopefully celebratory) rock n roll.
Misleading headline!!! I was expecting a post on new, innovative uses of the most underrated spice in the world.
BTW-I add it to everything, bloody marys, grilled potatoes, beer can chicken....mmmmmm...chicken.
Cocaine Cheese! Toxic Bay! Street gangs! It all adds up to a CHUD revival. Citizen Toxie! Toxic Avenger! Yes! Yes!
The Toxic Avenger: Home Alone-The Beginning
Today's lunch special:
Cocaine Cheese with Skinless, Boneless Chicken.
Would you like some freshly-ground pepper with that?
He got boneless chicken. He got cocaine toecheese.
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease.
Come together. Right now. Over me.