Ian Buckwalter

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• Commented on WTOP Report Provokes Anger Among Area Cyclists
  "the overwhelming majority of cyclists think they have wings and halos and can do whatever the fuck they want" And your support for that notion? I can say that the overwhelming majority of cyclists are conscientious riders, or that the...
• Commented on Deer Dies After Lion Attack Inside National Zoo
  What looks like "play" from cats (big or small) is all part of the killing process. House cats often never get to the killing strike with mice because they're simply not hungry...so they'll leave incapacitated but sometimes still alive prey...
• Posted Popcorn & Candy: Continental Drift to DCist
  DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Michelle Williams and Gael García Bernal in Lukas Moodysson's 'Mammoth'. 2009 AFI European Union Film Showcase Tonight is the kickoff of the AFI and the European Commission Delegation's annual European Union Film Showcase. The festival, now in its 22nd year, collects some of the best European film from the previous year's festival circuit, often screening some...
• Posted What's Old is New Again: Theater J's Lost in Yonkers to DCist
  Tana Hicken and Holly Twyford in Theater J's "Lost in Yonkers" Despite its World War II period setting and the old-fashioned feel of its Broadway by way of the Catskills laughs, Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers feels remarkably of the moment. A father is driven to bankruptcy trying to take care of his dying wife. In tough economic times, he joins the war effort to get himself out of debt, leaving his two teenage...
• Commented on Photo of the Day: October 29, 2009
  I had a funnel cake this past weekend at Markoff's Haunted Forest up near Poolesville (which continues operations through the weekend), and it was quite possibly the best one I've ever had....