Fall elephant-watching
You know what never gets old? Watching elephants walk around. We stopped by the National Zoo on Saturday and spent a few minutes by the pen.
Brian Warmoth
George R.R. Martin gets his own Flipboard magazine
Up until recently, I’d been extremely selective about the “Song of Ice and Fire” commentary and analysis I paid attention to. The Westeros.org wiki can be a spoiler-laden minefield to navigate while you’re still trekking through the existing books, and I have no regrets yet about allowing BoiledLeather.com into my life. I was wrapping up … Read moreGeorge R.R. Martin gets his own Flipboard magazine
NASA’s LADEE over Washington, D.C.
The highlight of this weekend so far was definitely watching the launch of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). Here’s what it looked like over the U.S. Capitol Friday night as it was headed to the moon.
The Kennedy Center from the Potomac
We caught a boat down to Alexandria on Friday. I looked up at the Kennedy Center balcony during the ride and found it hard to believe that it hasn’t even been five months since we were standing up there. It’s been a long, packed summer.
Should we be worried?
It’s not on our floor, but it’s right above the entrance we use every day.
It was a really good week for music
I don’t know if everyone else noticed over the past week, but it was a pretty great week for new music releases. Not only did the new Pixies track “Bagboy” and its video hit. It was catchy. I hold any band as old as Pixies (with or without Kim Deal) to the standard of “Was … Read moreIt was a really good week for music
Shark teeth
We pulled these out of the Chesapeake on Saturday. To the best of my knowledge, they’re all from sharks. (Also, I’m testing out some new WordPress image settings as I upload this photo.)
Did you know Michonne from ‘The Walking Dead’ is a playwright too?
I’ve made a pretty concerted effort to track down theatre options since moving to D.C. from Chicago about a year ago. We caught the “Ethereal Encounters” shorts at the Source Festival, Laura Marks’ “Bethany” at City Center in Manhattan and two shows from the current season at Woolly Mammoth downtown. The morning I rode the … Read moreDid you know Michonne from ‘The Walking Dead’ is a playwright too?
Where’s my head at?
In lieu of some longer reviews right now, here a few scattered thoughts on what I’ve been reading and otherwise seeing or hearing the last few weeks: Ezra Claytan Daniels’s serialized Upgrade Soul comic on iPad: Andrew Hayward clued me into this one via his review at Mac|Life. It’s a slightly animated multimedia version of a … Read moreWhere’s my head at?
Where to find me in 2013
This is just a beginning-of-the-year signal check to let you know I’m still blogging out of Washington, D.C. If you’re one of a handful of people I’ve bumped into online or off in the last few months, I’m still running the editorial department over at Industry Dive. (Check out Education Dive, Food Dive and Utility … Read moreWhere to find me in 2013