- Rest in peace: Harvey Pekar.
- Lesson: when the SWAT team is employed to deliver a warrant in your neighborhood, staying inside seems like the most sensible option.
- Hardly shocking: Northrup Grumman chooses a non-Metro-friendly, office park in Falls Church over Alexandria for the location of its new headquarters.
- Beleaguered: Probably the best possible adjective to describe Metro escalators, especially the ones at Dupont Circle, which had people literally shouting in frustration all day today. (Also see: Interminably Under Repair.)
- Pretty (Ugly Before): Streets of Washington tells the interesting story of the Old Greyhound Terminal at New York Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets NW.
- Serena Williams: she has pulled out of Wednesday’s Washington Kastles match due to an injured foot.
- Seriously: I find it hard to believe that there are four pairs of Major League Baseball broadcasters worse than Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble, but “incapable of penetrating the game’s action in any meaningful way” is about an apt an assessment as I’ve heard of the two, so at least GQ’s on point.
- More petitions: ARLnow reports that Thursday is the deadline for those who support a change of government in Arlington County from the current county manager format to a county board format to get enough signatures for a November referendum.
- Sad: A 16-year-old Maryland girl was injured in Sunday’s bombings in Uganda.
- Danny Glover: Murtaugh, getting his Fringe on.
Photo by Cycle The Ghost Round.
