Posts Tagged ‘rain’
Morning Roundup: Going Long Edition
If you pick up a paper copy of Washington City Paper this morning, you may experience a sensory flashback to 2006, when our issues averaged 160 pages and always weighed this much. However, it's just that our fall arts guide is stuck inside! Don't panic! The newspaper business still sucks! This year's guide has listings and content up the wazoo, including critics' picks and a feature that purports to tell local bloggers such as Morgan Hungerford and Matthew Yglesias just what they should do with their entertainment dollars this autumn. Also in this piece: bear joke. It looks great in print. Pick one up!
As Mike Watt would say, I feel like spielin' this morning. If you don't have the time, DO NOT CLICK MORE.
Morning Roundup: Go Ahead, Have the Doughnut Edition
- CP alum John Cloud breaks it to middlebrow America: That snack you're having after your workout? Kinda canceling out the work you did: "After we exercise, we often crave sugary calories like those in muffins or in "sports" drinks like Gatorade. A standard 20-oz. bottle of Gatorade contains 130 calories. If you're hot and thirsty after a 20-minute run in summer heat, it's easy to guzzle that bottle in 20 seconds, in which case the caloric expenditure and the caloric intake are probably a wash. From a weight-loss perspective, you would have been better off sitting on the sofa knitting."
After the jump: more things that happened yesterday, but with bullet points!
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Our Morning Roundup: Rainy Days Edition
- Weather Advisories Are Exciting News Events: Massive thunderstorms blew through DC, spewing hail and knocking out power throughout the area. Those who still had power took to their blogs in order to inform others that it was indeed raining. The afternoon storm rolled in so quickly that it made for an captivating visual, as captured by Prince of Petworth and The DCist.
- Yesterday's storms put a damper on voter turnout for the Virginia gubernatorial primary. After clogging every channel with strange campaign ads like this one for the past several weeks, the Post reports that only about 6% of the state's registered voters cast ballots. Polls closed at 7 p.m. and by 7:45, the pollsters at fivethirtyeight.com called the Democratic primary for state senator R. Creigh Deeds. Read More "Our Morning Roundup: Rainy Days Edition" »
Tonight at Filmfest: Small Crime, Rain, and More
Plus: Weekend Picks!
Highly recommended: Small Crime
Our guide to Friday's selections; weekend picks below the jump.
YAY!:
I.O.U.S.A., a documentary on the Federal Reserve that, according to Jule Banville, "does for our economic crisis what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming," only "with a lot more humor and a lot less PowerPoint." 6:30 p.m. at Goethe-Institut.
Small Crime, a comedy about a mysterious death on a bumptious Greek island. I said: "Servetalis steals the show as an expressionless but compassionate protag, and a lo-fi but sweeping soundtrack underscores innocuous moped chases. Come for the atmosphere, stay for the love affair—and by the end, you won’t really mind that Zacharias’ death might not have been all that mysterious, after all."
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Fancy Bike Guy, Where Are You?
Hey Mr. Expensive Bike Guy,
I couldn't help noticing this morning that you weren't whizzing past me on my way to work--the Four Mile Run trail, the Mount Vernon trail, and the Rock Creek trail were absolutely free of guys on $3,000 carbon-fiber Cervelos and Colnagos who don't signal with bells because those add 25 grams. I didn't see even one person in a moisture-wicking lycra suit covered in logos for European utility companies.
