Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
columbia_heights
Listserv slam poet Halyadoing wants your vote. “Dear Voter-peoples, Please don't settle for the same status quotes. Give me your votes. Write on your ballots: Halyadoing? Just Fine! That will ease your mind. We will have four fun years. Picking cotton [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
genxdc
Kelly has a nonhairy dilemma: “I am a total bear ‘chaser’,” he writes on the board devoted to local Generation-X bears, “and were I more hairy I would be considered an otter. I am smooth though, and have found several bears [...]

Chuck Caspari enjoys camping: Each year, the 42-year-old property manager treks to someplace like Assateague or New Jersey to reconnect with the great outdoors. But Caspari has traditional notions when it comes to what constitutes a campground, so when his wife alerted him on Oct. 29 that there was a tent on top of their [...]

Later, Adams Morgan. Good tidings to you, “Washington Heights Historic District.”
If you've never heard that Manhattan-esque moniker applied to Northwest D.C.'s most popular ethnically diverse party spot, it's probably because it describes a neighborhood whose “period of significance [was] 1891 to 1950,” according to a research firm that recently compiled a historic-preservation report on the [...]

Residents of Swann Street NW have grown accustomed to peering into vacant houses only to find strange people peering back out at them—or, in one case, jumping out and mugging them. But the reign of “abandominiums” might be drawing to an end, if Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham’s “Nuisance Property Boardup” legislation rolls through the [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
3DSubstation
There goes Wacko. From a Sept. 16 police report, at 1:25 a.m on the 2900 block of Sherman Avenue NW: “[Complainant 1] REPORTS THAT [Subjects 1 through 4] GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE. S1 SAID ‘THERE'S WACKO!, LETS GET HIM.’ S1-S4 [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
TMOTTGoGo Community Forum Board
Denizens of TMOTTGoGo—that'd be Take Me Out To The GoGo for all you knuckleheads—discuss the pertinent issues of the day. “LLEM,” says King. “LMMFAO,” says BUCKSHOT. “GTHOH!!!!!!!!” says Da Remixx. “MODEL JOANT!!!!!…Butta cranks.…WOW!!!!!!!!” says #02. “*chiggity*…Huh?” asks Hatee. [...]

In a minimalist condo in the Cityline at Tenley building, the founding members of the Washington Area Liquor Retailers Association are holding one of their first board meetings. A bottle of liquor and an Asian statuette stand in for decorations; the members—President H. Singh Bakshi, Vice President S.P. Toor, Treasurer Sarbjit Kochhar, and Secretary Vivek [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
columbia_heights
Most. Depressing. Post. Ever. Abridged from C.J.’s original poem:
OPTIONS
(For My Parents – Alice F. and Joseph L.)
…During the first realization that you were with Kid
You should've done to me what with your first-born you did -
Taken an Olympic-type dive off of [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
MPD-1D
On July 27, ebranic stimulates the collective gag reflex by describing a neighbor who hoards “loosely-wrapped” bags of dog crap in her front yard. “Over the course of several days a collection of bags grows on her front step, and on [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday (and sometimes Friday), we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
MPD-4D
On July 31, a 60-year-old man was sitting in his wheelchair at a bus stop when a group of hoods walked up. One put a knife to his throat, and, according to the police report, told him to [...]

David Howcroft’s car got one hell of a cleaning on July 1 at the Wash & Shine at 5020 Wisconsin Ave. NW: The 2000 Volkswagen Passat sustained $634 worth of bumper, panel, and tire damage.
An employee took Howcroft to the mangled vehicle, which appeared to have been backed out still covered in soap, and told [...]

Emphasis ours.
Hello:
Our Office has been advised of the following:
The DC Department of Corrections (DOC) will be testing its siren system at the D. C. Jail, Saturday, June [24] at 12 noon for 15 seconds only and continue every Saturday until they are sure it works. The purpose of the test is to ensure that the [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
Brookland
Nature was definitely up to something in Brookland this past Saturday. Just what that was, however, remains a mystery. “Our cat has not wanted to go out in the mornings which seemed pretty strange,” writes Debra. “Then today there was a [...]

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
columbia_heights
“Felton Earls,” Harvard professor, “does interesting work, but I don't think he's demonstrated either weakly or conclusively that the efficacy thesis is superior to broken windows,” writes Richard, continuing a discussion sparked by news of black men robbing a taxi passenger. [...]