[Ed. note: Still accepting entries, winner announced Feb. 20th.]
“This isn’t the best shot — it’s from the world music fest last summer in the park near the Iwo Jima memorial (sax player from the Skatalites) — but it’s one of my favorite views of the Mall from this side of the river.”
I had really been looking forward to checking out the 9th and U St. Flea Market…little did I know. The photo above almost cost me a serious ass kicking. I’m kind of like Vinny Testaverde, one more ass kicking and it will do me some serious permanent damage. So even though that is not the greatest picture you have to appreciate it just a little bit given the circumstances. You see when I tried to take the above picture the proprietor of the stand beneath it pretty much freaked out. And her very large friend advised me not to take any photos. After some serious pleading – alright fine – crying, I promised only to capture the sign and not any of her merchandise for sale. So please ignore the jackets in the picture for my own safety. Please. (more…)
Thanks to Susan for sending me this phenomenal photo. Sadly, the truck drove for the now defunct Wings n Things restaurant that was located on Kennedy and Georgia. Thankfully this truck will now be memorialized and God willing placed on a t-shirt one day. In case you can’t read it, it says:
“A Chicken Ain’t Nuthin’ But a Chickens Butt…But the Wings the Thing!”
Yeah, that’s a pistol crossbow. Yeah it comes with metal “arrows”. Yeah, that’s a good idea.
I just found it very cool that someone was looking to expand their book club and has advertised on the CH Coffee bulletin board. That’s a good touch that you probably wouldn’t get at Starbucks…
Not that I am complaining… Thanks to all for making the PoP launch party an awesome time. It was great to meet so many people from the neighborhood. My head is still a bit fuzzy so you’ll get your regularly scheduled posts later in the day. In the meantime enjoy some of the photos from last night’s party. And again a huge thank you to all who showed up. It was truly a pleasure. (more…)
Hold on I have to stop laughing for a second. Ok, this is a photo from my local bodega in Petworth (from the cell phone, c’mon I can’t always have my camera on me). At any rate, I was stunned and overjoyed to see that they were selling the traditional kosher wine Manischewitz. Manischewitz is the sickly sweet wine that every Jewish boy and girl knows all too well. Why it is being sold in Petworth that probably has a .05% Jewish population is beyond me. But the mere thought of someone slugging Manischewitz on the side of the road is simply beautiful. And a bit sad. I think this may be the only bottle of Manischewitz in the world that is located behind two inches of bulletproof glass…Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Manischewitz to drink.
