May 2011
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“And yet, for all the smog and political corruption and inequality, our...”
– from “Keys to the City” by Casey Walker, Los Angeles Review of Books
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“the scallions were intended as a lunch ingredient, but because of a mix-up, were...”
– Fun times at DCPS.
from, “Southeast students served raw onions as snack.”
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Why pretend to remember the weather two years...
I don’t know if I have horrible short-term memory or adapt exceptionally quickly, but, after about ten minutes inside any of the overly air-conditioned buildings in the District, I completely forget about the heat. This makes the sultriness a bit of a surprise after I walk outside again, and I almost always think, “damn, it got hot,” despite the fact that the heat has been around...
“The stiff spokes of this wheel
touch the sore spots of the earth.
On the...”
– July in Washington by Robert Lowell
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“It’s like everyone in D.C. is so type-A that they have to run all of the...”
– My aunt, commenting on how fit people in the District are.
(In Brooklyn visiting family. Great quotes about Janette Sadik-Khan and cycling this weekend, although they don’t really fit in with the theme of this blog.)
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“It’s a commonplace to say there are two Washingtons. But D.C. isn’t...”
– Lorin Stein, from “The Literary Guide to the World”
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“One most often hears the city being referred to as being...”
– from “Washington, D.C.: A Thriving Center of Power and Culture” by David C. Ruffin, Black Enterprise Magazine, 1987.
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“Washington is not second-rate — not by a long shot. We have great chefs. We have...”
– from “In defense of Spike Mendelsohn” by Tim Carmen
I’m really glad someone wrote this. The outrage- although that word is probably too strong (brouhaha? is there a word for reactionary protest confined to the commentariat of local blogs?)- over Mendelsohn’s flippant...
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“So don’t expect the locals to get misty-eyed over monuments, inaugurations...”
– George Pelecanos, from DC Noir
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