Archive for October, 2011
VIDEO: Dog Costume Competition at Jackson 20
One of my favorite stand-up routines is the closing bit on Brian Regan’s first CD release, Live, in which the comedian details a conversation between two dogs that reveals two very bored individuals reminiscing about chasing cars. Dogs’ personalities have always fascinated me, but maybe not as much as what their owners put them through for the [...]
Meridian Pint Pig Commercial
On my way home from the Helix pumpkin carving event, I noticed the smoker parked n the sidewalk outside Meridian Pint in Columbia Heights and I know what that means. Pork is inevitable. I took some footage of the coming roast and found some Mozart to go with it. They do this every once in [...]
VIDEO: Helix Pumpkin Carving Contest
With Halloween approaching, I wanted to do at least one event that references the holiday in some way that did not involve cross dressing. Thanks, to Greg’s List (no affiliation), I found this small, low-key pumpkin carving contest at Helix, a bar I’ve been to exactly once, for a birthday party probably 5 years ago. [...]
VIDEO: High Heel Drag Race 2011
The crowds. The pagentry. The Pomp. The Circumstance. The High Heels. The Drag Queen Race. DC is a lot of things. Uptight. Self-important. Unimaginative. Things that you would equate with cookie-cutter movies about politics and professional life in the U.S. It’s also the opposite of those things sometimes, as if parallel cities exists outside of [...]
VIDEO: The award-winning “Ripped Off”
A few weeks ago, some friends of mine entered the 72-Hour Film Festival in Frederick MD, of which I had never heard, but appears to be at least tangentially related to our dearly departed Art-O-Matic. (And by dearly departed, I mean, hasn’t occurred in a way that my former band could play one of our [...]
VIDEO: Occupy DC, K Street, Elsewhere Protests
While interviewing the folks in my “This Day in History” segment, I was alerted to the fact that there would be an economic-related protest in Freedom Square in a few days, so before leaving for a long weekend out of town, I swung by the protests. To be forthcoming, I’ve never been a big fan [...]
VIDEO: Food Truck Truckeroo Festival
Food trucks have come a long way in the last couple years since they started popping up around town. While a few have gone under (so long Sabora Street, we miss your plantains), the remaining few dozen have formed an alliance. Thanks to Food Truck Fiesta, the food truck aggregator, folks can get a GPS-y report each day [...]
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