Hey, don't go singing along with your deluxe edition of Odelay just yet!
Nasty Little Man PR Announcement
Press Release
The first pressing of the recent Odelay Deluxe Reissue was found to have gone out with unproofed lyrics that were taken from a lyrics website as place holders for layout purposes.
Beck apologizes for this unfortunate oversight and [...]
The phenomena known as 2 Girls 1 Cup has finally become essay worthy. Slate weighs in with a short piece plus slideshow. Having actually watched 2 Girls 1 Cup, my reaction–from what I can recall–was as follows:
*Scene of turd exiting butt into cup=1 dry heave.
*Scene of turd cup being slurped by zombie girl=1 gasp.
*All scenes [...]
My story in this week's City Paper examines the claim by Office of Unified Communications director Janice Quintana that OUC dispatchers are 99.99 percent accurate. The story lists several instances of questionable dispatching by the OUC.
WUSA Channel 9's Dave Statter has more. Statter reports that he "has been waiting for OUC to answer a number [...]
Via Capitol Punishment: If you bet $1 on the the Washington Nationals to win the World Series, and they do, you'll make $199. If you bet $1,000,000, you could buy the Redskins and hire back Vince Lombardi from the dead! Not that I'm trolling for comments, but those were Ron Paul's odds, and look at [...]
Vets can't get a break. They come home from Iraq, and we stick them in sub-par medical facilities. Then, we ignore their emotional needs. And sometimes, rarely but occasionally, they go crazy.
That right there seems to be a fairly accurate summary of coverage of suffering returning soldiers. In the last year, the media and the [...]
This week's Loose Lips concerns the fate of litigation that the District's attorney general threatened against the paint industry last summer. Such a lawsuit would have been aimed at getting the industry to clean up properties contaminated with lead paint.
An interesting detail that came to LL's attention after his deadline:
After Linda Singer quit as attorney [...]
Last week was historically bad for Dan Snyder's two big businesses, the Redskins and Six Flags.
His football team's fan base revolted over the treatment of Gregg Williams and the alleged near-hiring of retread Jim Fassel. And last Tuesday, a share of Six Flags stock (SIX) was going for $1.46, its lowest level ever.
This week's [...]
This via the Tenleytown neighborhood message board via a dc.gover:
Operation Just Fix It
365 Days of Constituent-Focused Problem Solving
In order to make a problem-area clean, safe and sustainable for residents, it is important that the community be involved in improving the area. "Operation Just Fix It" is Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's multi-agency initiative aimed at abating [...]
Slate is reporting that Ralph Nader has formed an exploratory committee. This is what Nader's website says:
"This is what we are contemplating.
Something new.
Something big.
Something bold.
Something that works.
Something that will prod young and old alike.
To join in a mass push back against the corporate powers that are dictating our future."
If you donate $300 to his [...]
The Examiner reports Fenty is considering having gas stations take on vehicle inspections: "The mayor has directed the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of the Environment to look at decentralizing emissions inspections, shuttering the DMV’s facility at 1001 Half St. SW and eliminating most safety inspections. Detailed recommendations should be ready by March, [...]
On Jan. 17, ABC 7 News ran a brief story about harassment based on race and sexual orientation at a firehouse in Northeast. The piece described a couple incidents, including one situation in which firefighters hung a mounted deer head with chains and a marijuana blunt in its mouth. Apparently, below the deer head, there [...]
Last December, we wrote about Doctor Manoocher Pooya, who got in trouble with the DC Board of Medicine for sexually abusing a patient. While Pooya lost his license in the District, at the time, he was still licensed to practice in Maryland. Since the story ran, he's lost his license there as well. Pooya is [...]
On Saturday I went to a memorial service for Ray Farkas. He died recently at 71.
I met him in the late-'70s when I was a teenager, and I knew then he worked in television, but for years to me he was just my friend Mark’s dad, a guy we had to hide from when [...]
A man in Little Rock calling himself "the Black Elvis" has come out in support of the Clinton campaign. “Bill Clinton was inducted into the black hall of fame. Like Elvis, he transcended race,” said Dwayne Turner, who says he has been performing under the name "Belvis" for "a few years."
D.C.'s own Blelvis has [...]
Just got this, another missive from an angry parent and/or activist over the proposed school closings. It's an open letter to Michelle Rhee questioning her speaking at the American Enterprise Institute.
Since City Desk is a bit light today, I'm just gonna post the letter complete with spelling errors, faulty grammar, and the bum sentences. If [...]
