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New Morning
Sure enough, they were ripping out traffic lights and welding manhole covers last night: I got myself up at seven in the morning and headed down to the Foggy Bottom subway station. Getting on wasn't too bad-...
Written by hillel-aron on January 20, 2009
The HuffPo Ball
It was perhaps ironic that the HuffPo ball, a party celebrating new media, was held at the Newseum, a museum that stands as a paean to old media. Although maybe it was appropriate, given that the last vestiges of old...
Written by hillel-aron on January 19, 2009
Ben's Chili Bowl
Whenever you tell anyone from D.C. that you're going there, they almost always say the same thing: "You gotta go to Ben's Chili Bowl." Not the Lincoln memorial, not The National Archives, but Ben's Chili Bow. So I...
Written by hillel-aron on January 19, 2009
DC-dance
Freezing cold, Hollywood celebrities, fancy parties... D.C. is exactly like Sundance! Yesterday morning, we saw Larry King trying to decide what bagel to pick at the breakfast buffet, and Jamie Foxx singing as he...
Written by hillel-aron on January 19, 2009
Flogging a Dead Bush
Out on Dupont circle, people are throwing shoes at a giant inflatable George W. Bush. It's not all hope, optimism, and dawn of a new american century out here in D.C. There are some...
Written by hillel-aron on January 19, 2009
Traffic Lights (And other loose ends)
We're about 36 hours away from inauguration, and I thought I'd take a moment for a few random observations. • The people at the Ritz-Carlton are amazing. There's basically an entire platoon in the lobby waiting to...
Written by hillel-aron on January 18, 2009
Manifest Hope
If you're in D.C. right now, do yourself a favor and check out the Hope gallery at 3333 M Street NW. It's really weird that in D.C. all streets have NW or NE at the end of them. Here artist Shephard Fairey touches...
Written by hillel-aron on January 18, 2009
Obamastock
It felt like a cross between the Academy Awards, Woodstock, and an Obama campaign stop. Crowd estimates for the giant outdoor concert ranged from four to eight hundred thousand. The mass of people stretched from the...
Written by hillel-aron on January 18, 2009
The Jogging Congressman
People in D.C. love to jog. It was a bone-chilling 15 degrees this morning, and still, joggers were everywhere, each one wearing an outfit more ridiculous than the last, ranging from the space-age to just plain...
Written by hillel-aron on January 17, 2009
Pillowcases
We just checked in to the Ritz-Carlton in beautiful Washington D.C. and I'm literally vibrating with excitement. We drove past the Potomac river, which is frozen, and the Watergate. Of special note are the...
Written by hillel-aron on January 17, 2009
