I feel like the Washington Post Sports section wants me to feel sad if Maryland, Georgetown or any other local college team isn’t doing well, and elated if they do do well. Michael Wilbon’s columns say things along the lines of, “This year is a great year for us in the D.C. area. Maryland, GW, [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Georgetown vs Louisville
March 7, 2008
Tomorrow’s game is being touted by the Washington Post as one of the most exciting games of the season: The two best teams in the Big East will play each other in their last game of the season which is a historic first of some sort. I think they might be exxagerating the historic nature [...]
Dengue Fever And Exit Clov At Black Cat, March 1, 2008
March 4, 2008
The local fan base Exit Clov has built is staggering. I always admired the band for their relentless self-promotion — the constant local gigging, passing out fliers and free CDs on street corners — but I only recently realized how effective the effort has been. Buried in as the second of four bands at a [...]
Classes I enjoyed taking
March 4, 2008
In today’s edition of the Washington Post within the Metro Section, there was a great article on interesting classes taught at college.Here are classes I enjoyed taking:
1. Anthropology-The Washington Post quotes a student from 1935 who said that anthropology was a complete waste of time better situated to the 1890s than the 1930’s. Well, it’s [...]
Top 10 films of the year
March 3, 2008
I have not been to the theater to see Cloverfield, Fool’s Gold or Jumper but I have seen No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Juno, and Charlie Wilson’s War in the last few weeks. There’s a key difference between the two films: One set was released in 2008, and one set was [...]
What exactly does Booz Allen Hamilton do?
March 3, 2008
Today on the taking potshots about employers I know next to nothing about:
I don’t know much about Booz Allen Hamilton, except it might have been smart if they had Mr.Booz agree to have his name appear 2nd or 3rd in the order of the company name because a) when someone says in shorthand I work [...]
