Aug
5
Remember the magic
August 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Please excuse the radio silence. I’ve been in cool Orlando for what is basically a business vacation. Anyway, here’s a little token from the happiest place on Earth.
May
22
Oaktown
May 22, 2010 | Comments Off
I have been out of town on business, and thus the radio silence. I am working on an opus about what went down in the hall of Congress the other day, so no reason to fret there loyal readers. Anyway, I did get to travel to the Bay area in California for the first time [...]
Jan
5
TSA on the job
January 5, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s good to know that in the wake of an averted terrorist airline bombing, our government is finally taking the right measures to root out those that would do us harm – namely, independent journalists who refuse to provide their annual income to TSA security officials. Michael Yon reports: Got arrested at the Seattle airport [...]
Jun
29
Gettysburg
June 29, 2009 | 5 Comments
It only took me nearly 8 years of living within an hour and a half drive of the place, but I have finally been to every Civil war buff’s personal mecca: Gettysburg. Some attractions do not live up to the hype. This one exceeds it. It is remarkable that when so many smaller Civil War [...]
May
2
At least I don’t have swine flu
May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments
It’s a testament to the deranged media in this country that for a good part of Tuesday I was concerned that I was, in fact, the DC area’s first victim of swine flu. My throat was sore, and by the time I was on my second leg of the journey to San Diego, I was [...]
Mar
24
World’s largest miniature train set
March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
A friend sent me the link to this story. This is simply unbelievable. The Miniatur Wunderland model railroad in Hamburg, Germany is the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 miles of HO scale track. Now, the makers of this huge layout [...]
Dec
29
Apologies to Pennsylvania
December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments
It has long been my belief that Pennsylvania drivers are, bar none, the worst drivers known to humanity. I have not driven much in my old hometown of Ridgewood, Queens in a while, so I either forgot or never truly appreciated just how awful my hometown’s drivers are. The problem with Ridgewood-ites is that they [...]
Dec
15
Back home
December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments
I am back in Maryland (actually right now I am in DC, but you get my meaning). I wanted to say hello to the fellow bloggers and readers of this blog that I met or at least talked to over the weekend, especially the Darwins who were gracious enough to have Lauren and I over [...]
Dec
2
A proposal
December 2, 2008 | Comments Off
Dear Metro, Since you seem insistent that people should not get to their destination without delay, and since, as the saying goes, time is money, I have an idea. For every five minutes that a train is delayed, the exit fare for those affected is decreased twenty cents. It should not be hard to track [...]
Jul
3
Rethinking . . . minivans
July 3, 2008 | 7 Comments
I never wanted to own a vehicle bigger than a Sedan. Then I got married. And since we are hoping to have a nest of crankykids some day, practicality has set in. That’s not actually our car, but it’s the same make, model, and color. Technically, it’s a mini-minivan, so we’re not totally uncool. And [...]
May
30
Going Camping
May 30, 2008 | 9 Comments
There’s a first time for everything, and I’m off to southwestern Virginia for my first outdoor camping trip. I’m looking forward to it. Have a good weekend, and please pray for us – among the four of us we’re two native New Yawkers who never have gone camping, a city-girl from Texas, and a Marine. [...]
May
5
Quack Quack
May 5, 2008 | Comments Off
I can now end my radio silence as I have made it back from Memphis unharmed. It’s a remarkably small city, or at least the fun part of it is rather tiny in radius. Even Beale Street, which I suppose was designed to be a mini Bourbon Street, is only about three blocks long – or [...]
Sep
6
L.A. Story
September 6, 2007 | Comments Off
Aug
31
La La Land
August 31, 2007 | 1 Comment
Aug
31
Why?
August 31, 2007 | Comments Off
May
7
Seattle
May 7, 2007 | Comments Off
Apr
30
Seattle Bound
April 30, 2007 | Comments Off
Mar
26
Naughty By Nature
March 26, 2007 | 8 Comments
Mar
21
Outta here
March 21, 2007 | Comments Off