Showing posts with label inauguration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inauguration. Show all posts

26 January 2009

back in action

red, white, and halo

It's weird to think that this was the start to my inaugural weekend: Cocktails at Halo, complete with red, white, and blue ambient lighting. Good friends, good drinks, followed by good food, followed by math jokes on chalkboards (integral of e to the power of x, anyone?)...

Sadly, the fun-filled weekend was destined to be short lived.

Actually, what I found while taking out trash pre-night-out-on-the-town should have clued me in to what was to eventually follow:

rodent RIP

Yeah... Not a pretty picture by any stretch of the imagination. I only hope the little guy had expired before the gate closed (if that doesn't make sense, don't ask... trust me, you'll be better off).

At any rate, my fun night out on the town was on the happier side of a punctuating phone call I'd rather not go in to at the moment. Suffice it to say, that call led to a last-minute flight reservation, a 5 a.m. trek to the Dupont Circle Metro station...

riding on the metro

...some quality reading time spent at a practically deserted gate...

depressing departure

...a window seat...

window seat, awesome. crying baby in the next row? not so much

...which was awesome. The screaming baby sitting directly behind me? Not so much...

...some fantastic astronautically inspired artwork throughout SFO...

more terminal art, courtesy SFO

...complete with some bitching robots (I'm a sucker for robots (they're the new pirates, you know))...

terminal art @ SFO

...and that's all I really feel like getting in to at the moment. Maybe I'll talk about it more later on. Then again, maybe I won't.

Not like it really matters either way.

24 December 2008

'twas the night before xmas...


Looks like someone decided to spread some holiday cheer.

Can't exactly say much of it rubbed off on me, but it did put a smile on my face.

Some more seasonal merriment...

A window display at a greenhouse / shop about a block and a half from my place.


Ye Old Post Office.


Complete with some pre-inaugural preparations.




The view from Pennsylvania Avenue.


The National Menorah.


For the Pagans in the crowd.


And everyone's favorite reindeer with my favorite misfit toy.


Happy Christmakwanzikah, kids!

18 December 2008

shopping is a feeling

Ask David Bryne if you don't get it.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to process Obama's inaugural opening prayer pick. And I'm failing to do so. Which is fine by me, because it's not something I want to move past.

Because it's wrong.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, go google it and educate yourself.

So much for a "brand new bright Obama day," ugh, so disappointing...



Here's some of what I plan to have blaring at full volume in my headphones to drown out the opening prayer on inauguration day:







"You don't have the balls to be a queer."

Amen, Ben Weasel. Amen.