Author: Prince Of Petworth

Wait, don’t answer that. I will be incommunicado for the next couple of days. Stay tuned for the next “Portrait of Petworthian” coming on Monday. And have a safe and festive President’s day.

When it snowed like one inch. If memory serves I believe every street including the little side streets had a good one inch of salt deployed by trucks. And I remember this distinctly because there was so much salt that when all the snow melted there was still a good half inch of salt layering the streets, and you could taste it every time the wind picked up. Anyway except for the big roads we don’t seem to be as lucky this time. Maybe they were a bit over ambitious a couple of weeks ago and used up the salt stockpile? I don’t know. As they say in Burma “It just don’t make no sense.”

But I thought for sure I was hallucinating on the metro this afternoon. So check it out, on the red line metro between Metro Center and Gallery Place the most bizarre thing happened. I was staring out the window to take in the views, all right there are no views, I was staring at the window to see if I was balding, anyway, that is not important…what is important is that as I was staring out the window, I saw a freaking television commercial. It was the weirdest thing. I know we’ve all seen some of the trains with advertisements but this was an actual video commerical of a television program. It was something like “Day Break” staring Taye Diggs. But that’s not important, what is important is that the masters of metro or at the very least their IT guys have figured out how to broadcast commercials in metro tunnels! Obviously there is no sound but the images pass you by as you look out the window. I really thought I was losing my mind. Has anyone else seen this? I wonder how much they got paid for it. Well, if it keeps our fares low, I’m all for it. Of course, it is possible that I had way too much fun in college…

Deal! Or so it seems. It always interesting to look at the home sales posted on Petworth News. The prices seem quite strong except for one instance of a house on Jefferson Street that appears to have sold for less than half the asking price. I guess they must have really wanted to sell.

Today’s Washington Express had one of those small snippets located at the top of the page in the print edition:

“Experts are examining diaries thought to have belonged to World War II era Italian leader
Benito Mussolini. However, a British historian familiar with the writings said they contained
‘nothing seriously new that the world needed to know’.”

A possible entry can be found below.

May 22, 1943

Dear Diary,

Gosh, Adolf can be such a jerk!!!! He keeps hounding me. Why can’t I beat the Americans? He keeps pushing and pushing me. He can be so mean. I told him I was trying as hard as I could. But no, that just isn’t good enough for him. I don’t know what he wants from me. I’m trying so hard. I tried growing a moustache like him but he just called me fat. And I’ve been dieting for three weeks. I can’t do anything right. Well I’m going to show him, at least my fellow Italians still respect me…

Love,
Benito

Yeah that’s right. No longer do you have to go to a quaint town in New England or some of the “posher” neighborhoods of DC. Now one resident in Petworth is advertising a Bed & Breakfast on Craig’s List. Only $65 a night. What’s next a wine and cheese shoppe?