When You Speed-Read Three Books, You Burn Off The Calorie Equivalent Of Five Peanuts
If Kobe Bryant is actually a woman with long, black hair and bad make-up, I saw him in Barnes and Noble.
After a long morning of picking up job applications on M Street in Georgetown, I stopped in Barnes and Noble to read some magazines. I sat down in the cafe with a New York Magazine and began to read. All of a sudden, my eyes were attacked. There was a women, at least 50 years old, standing in front of the table next to me. My first assumption was she came straight from the gym, at least, that’s what her outfit suggested. She had on bright purple leggings, a purple tee-shirt with the sleeves rolled up and tucked under her arm pits, white sneakers with purple stripes, tiny white socks, and grey ankle warmers. Even if this women had just been working out, it was about 95 degrees outside. The ankle warmers were unnecessary, to say the least, but that’s besides the point.
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October Concerts: Whoa City This City Totally Rules Compared to Where We Were At for the Past Four Years
Diplo: He really does look like he's on assloads of drugs in this picture.
Chromeo: Oct. 4, 9:30 Club – Dance party part one.
Hot Chip: Oct 8, 9:30 Club – Dance party part two.
Of Montreal: Oct 9, 9:30 Club – I don’t give a shit about this band.
Girl Talk: Oct 10, 9:30 Club – Overhyped. See Diplo instead, if you want mashups.
Ra Ra Riot + Walter Meego: Oct 12, Black Cat – They went to my university.
Yelle: Oct 13, 9:30 Club – French high-pitched girl music. Not for boys.
The Notwist: Oct 15, 9:30 Club – Depressing.
The Secret Machines: Oct 16, 9:30 Club – I don’t care.
Diplo + No Age + Abe Vigoda: Nov 12, Black Cat – I wouldn’t miss this for the world. Unless I was scheduled at work, of course.
French Kicks: Nov 21, Black Cat – I know like, one song.
–Mal
Center for American Progress Event: How Should the United States Respond to Rising Powers? Probably Not a Question DestroyDC Should Be Answering.
Steve Coll, who is president of Center for American Progress and a writer for the New Yorker, is putting this event together to sort of answer any of the looming fears Americans may have as we’re being (very quickly) knocked down by economic powerhouses India and China in the global marketplace. I think that they should make this event mandatory for Jesus freaks and bums and all those people that give out end of the world paraphernalia at the National Mall.
I know it’s sort of in the middle of the day and starts at 8AM on a Friday morning, but it’s worth going to — Suzanne Nossel from Human Rights Watch and Peter Scoblic from The New Republic will grace the otherwise bland panel.
http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2008/09/nextworld.html
-Mal
Better Not Bring a Lighter to This Exhibition: Elena del Rivero at the Corcoran Art Gallery
I just want to rip this down.
Egh, not much to say except get off at Farragut West and follow the signs to the Corcoran Art Gallery and check out Elena de Rivero’s exhibition. Apparently, there is a “majestic curtain of sewn paper more than 500 feet long” that supposedly “inhabits the boundary between domestic space and public activity.”
Whatev.
-Mal
