Tube Meat Week

DCist’s Jamie Liu has a tasty string of sausage (hyper)links to her posts about hot dogs and sausages in the Washington area:

“Click Click: Tube Meat Week on the Town,” Jamie R. Liu, DCist

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Tattoo Frontier: Washington DC

“If you’re a barber in the District, you have to be licensed and regulated by a city board. But if you’re a tattoo artist or piercer, a certain libertarian ethos seems to govern your trade within city limits—currently, the District remains one of the last places in the country in which tattooing and piercing are wholly unregulated.”

More:

“Regulations on Horizon for D.C. Tattoo Artists,” Martin Austermuhle, DCist

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Metro Motivates Commuter Courtesy

Observing that mass transit manners have become all too rare, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has launched a 21st century ettiquette initiative, using Second Life commuter clones on YouTube:

Mascot Name Contest Unleashed

IT’S ALIVE! Whatever it is. We refer to the new athletic man-muppet mascot Virginia’s George Mason University has unnaturally brought to subhuman life. OMG! Igor! Where is that jar with the criminal brain?

GMU’s old sports mascot was a furry … thing called Gunston, after Gunston Hall. Get it? No one else did, either. Gunston is rumpled-looking and ineffectual; naturally he was kicked upstairs to a cushy job in university administration.

March on Potomac Gardens

Washington, DC’s Capital Hill East web discussion group has proposed an anti-crime march on the Potomac Gardens public housing community. This has set the blogosphere boiling but has yet to make it into DC newspapers and broadcast media. It will. The proposal, no matter how well-intentioned, is certainly un-neighborly; some may consider it divisive, racist, elitist, and downright ignorant.

Pantsless Pearson Rides Again

Former District of Columbia Administrative Judge Roy L. Pearson Jr. has filed suit in Federal Court to get his D.C. job back. Mr. Pearson enjoyed worldwide ridicule for suing his dry cleaners for $54 million for allegedly losing a pair of his pants. He lost the lawsuit and his job as well.

Mr. Pearson’s new suit legal filing claims he was a whistleblower, wrongfully dismissed from his position with the DC Office of Administrative Hearings for exposing internal corruption. He asks for reinstatement in his job, back pay, and $1 million in damages for “humiliation” and “physical illness” he suffered as a result of his “retaliatory” demotion and eventual dismissal. The city claims his term had expired last May and he was not reappointed due to lack of judicial temperament.

DC Police Merge with YouTube — UPDATE

Okay, not YouTube, but the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is adding video feeds from other District of Columbia Government agencies to the 92 crime “hot spot” cameras it already operates, bringing the network total to 5,200 closed-circuit cameras.

Who’s Preaching to Whom?

Like three-quarters of the world’s population, I do not come from a cultural background that includes proselytizing, and I consider it somewhat rude. Those who proselytize, however, are eager to share their One True Right Answer – spiritual, political, commercial – with the rest of us, even though like most of the world I’d rather they kept their joy to themselves or shared it with like-minded folks somewhere out of earshot. I guess that takes the fun out of prophecy, though, because street corner preaching persists.

For over twenty years, the intersection of 8th and H Street Northeast and has been a place where Prophets like to share their Answers with us Multitudes. The intersection of two bus routes serving residential areas without many other services, it is a commercial area, loud with the sound of voices, recorded music and Metrobuses. If you wish to speak to several people at once, amplification is required.

Washington Goes to SXSW

Washington’s assault on the 2008 South-by-Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival is chronicled by Mehan Jayasuriya in today’s DCist. Local shock troops Georgie James, Le Loup, These United States, Pash, Middle Distance Runner, Samantha Murphy, Jukebox the Ghost, Exit Clov, and Carol Bui trooped to Texas’ Travis County. Follow the Showcase battle plan and sample combat capabilities at the DC in TX blog.

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Anyone for Tennis?

(Above: Dutch Reagan, Sports Blogger.)

[Be sure to see the July 8th update.]

There’s a new team in town, the Washington Kastles of World Team Tennis (WTT).

If you are unfamiliar with the WTT, it is a 33-year-old professional tennis league. The WTT league teams are the DC Kastles, NYC Buzz, Seattle Cappuccinos, Miami Cubanos, Chicago Deep Dish, Iowa Korn, Boston Beans, LA Whatevers, and ‘Bama Bubbas, or something like that. The WTT player draft is April 1 (no foolin’).