The good work of the Ward 4 Special Election website continues. Jeff Steele has done a terrific job examining this upcoming election. Jeff has done a fantastic job focusing on the nuances of this election. Most recently he has taken a thought I had on the Ward 4 endorsemtents and turned them into a proper analysis. Check out his thoughts on Crop vs. Fenty Round Two here on his Ward 4 Special Election website. I don’t necessarily agree with his conclusion but I admire his efforts on this further reexamination.
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I faced a dilemma last night and I would like your collective advice please. I have great neighbors who have wonderful children. Now one particular neighbor has a child about 14/15 years old and is begining to run with a “bad” crowd. Everytime I see him he is very polite to me and we always chat for a while. So I don’t want to see him get in trouble. Well, last night he was hanging out with a group of his friends in front of his house making a racket. I was cool with that although it was around 11pm. Then I hear a bottle smash. So I’m thinking to myself I have a few options: I can go outside and talk to them or I can call 311 or I can do nothing. What would you have chosen? I decided not to go outside because I figured he probably wouldn’t be receptive to a talk in front of all his friends. I decided not to call 311 because he is a good kid and I didn’t really want to see him get in trouble. So I gritted my teeth and did nothing. This morning, I went outside and sure enough there was a Grey Goose bottle of vodka smashed near my house. So I clean up the bottle, thinking to myself at least they have very good taste in vodka. Wait, a second, now they are drinking. What do I do? I don’t want to rat him out. But I don’t want to see him get into even worse trouble. So let’s say he is hanging out with his friends and I spot them drinking – do I go over and talk to him? Plus I don’t want to be a huge hypocrite because I am known to enjoy a beer or two. I’m leaning towards having a chat with him when his friends aren’t around. Any advice would be most appreciated.
Come support a Petworth resident and sometime Domku bartender Joe Mills.
The American Century Theater Presents: That Champioinship Season by Jason Miller
March 30 – April 28, 2007
Wed.-Sat. at 8:00 pm
Sat. & Sun. at 2:30 pm
Gunston Arts Center
Theater Two
2700 South Lang Street
Arlington, VA
703-553-8782
Apparently there is a school board election on May 1st as well. Somebody else can interview them.
Domku early evening:
First Man: Why are you so ugly?
Second Man: I was born that way.
First Man: Why are you so ugly? (Louder)
Second Man: I was born that way…God damn the English.
From CraigsList. I don’t know if this is the best way to rent a room but it sure is funny. Perhaps the funniest part is how he signs off “Love Perseus”. It would be like signing a cover letter “love the Prince of Petworth”. Good stuff.
Do not miss this oportunity….. The house is located in the Petworth
area, the closest metro station is Fort totten ( Red line ), most of
neighbors are young marrigments or old people, and always you can find
a parking spot on the street.
Love Perseus.
You can read the full post here.
I have always loved this house. Vibrant colors. And you got to love the tricycle climbing up the house.
Ah, that was a nice idea. It was such a lovely thought. The police were going to be walking the beat saying hello to the neighbors, getting to know folks, etc. etc. Yeah, well it hasn’t happened in Petworth as far as I am concerned. Now you all have to understand, I am not a normal fellow. I walk for hours and hours just to walk. I walk all around Petworth, Columbia Heights and U Street. I observe, I look at cool houses, I look at cool flowers, I talk to cool people. And you know how many cops I have seen “walking the beat”? Two! And that is two who were walking together, not two separate occasions. So I ask you, Chief Lanier, Mayor Fenty, what gives? Where are these foot patrols and community policing initatives you promised us? I believe I’m going to have call bullshit on this one.
Fellow Petworthians and residents of the District, is it just me? Have you seen foot patrols? If they send an officer to an ANC meeting I don’t exactly call that community policing.
Paul Schwartzman writes in a small piece in the Post that a North Carolina based builder has been chosen to develop 77 acres of the Old Soldiers Home. It plans to build a small hotel, a supermarket, condominiums, market rate rental apartments and 300 units of affordable housing.
Pretty exciting stuff although I hope it isn’t too congested a la certain areas of Columbia Heights. But a new supermarket should make people happy. Dare I say Whole Foods may be on its way?
Thanks to a tip from a reader I was alerted to all the new blue Petworth signs around town. They are awesome, a good sign that we haven’t been forgotten from the powers that be. The signs show where the Old Soldier’s home is located, the metro etc. Good stuff.