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Monthly Archives: August 2009
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Greater Greater Washington continues its webby awesomeness with a three-part series by Matt Johnson on Metro station design motifs, beginning with this post on ceiling treatments.
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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Three on a match
Aunt Taki showed some of the diaries that she has been keeping since forever. Her secrets are safe from me, as well as her kids, since she keeps them in Japanese. She usually uses a book with a cool set … Continue reading
Posted in Tools and Technology
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Takeaways: 4
Some snaps from my recent trip to Sacramento and suburbs to move my mother into her new place. Mom wasn’t fazed by using my mobile to leave a message for her friend Priscilla. Doing what she loves doing (and is … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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The right direction
James Hohmann visits WMATA’s sign shop. Discreetly, nothing is said about the hand-made annotations to the elevator call buttons that are meant to keep us from pushing the emergency notifier when all we want to do is get to the … Continue reading
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Bang
One evening, after a week or two of rehearsals [of Our Mrs. McChesney], I was leaving the theater rather late, when most of the company had gone. George Hobart and I had had some changes to discuss. [Augustus] Thomas was … Continue reading
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Takeaways: 3
How to clear out a one-bedroom apartment — with fifteen years of loving/living in it — in only six days: it helps to have worked a few theater strikes. Just because a 6-inch chunk of 2×4 with two screws broken … Continue reading
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Takeaways: 2
When you’re shopping for an assisted living facility for yourself, check the fine print in the house rules and regulations to make sure that you can have a glass of wine in your own dang room.
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Takeaways: 1
When you’re cleaning out the apartment of someone who can’t do it for herself, and you’re standing in the trash bags aisle of Longs Drugs on a Sunday evening, spend the extra coin and get the ones with a drawstring … Continue reading
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Thanks a lot, Jessa
Via Bookslut: Yet one more reason that I should have learned to touch type in high school. Scrabble meets Tetris.
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Silver Line progress report: 6
Construction has begun all along the Phase I corridor of Metro’s Silver Line. I paused to take a snap of the early activity at the site of the Wiehle Avenue station (and terminus, pending completion of Phase II). This is … Continue reading
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Upcoming: 16
Reston Community Players and the Reston Community Center will participate in the mass premiere of The Laramie Project—10 Years Later on October 12. Plans are still being put together (as well as the script!), but the goal is for 100 … Continue reading
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Contemporary American Theater Festival 2009
Michael Weller’s Fifty Words heads up the list of five plays (featuring two pianos!) presented at another fine festival in Shepherdstown. A smartly-written, 90-minute two-hander for Anthony Crane (playing the affable “goof-bag” husband Adam) and Joey Parsons (as Jan, his … Continue reading
