As Jeff notes, he and I have been pretty lucky at scoring free passes to movie screenings through various sources–Metro Weekly, [The Washington Post] Express, ytic, and others. Two weeks ago we saw Just Like Heaven, and last week Jeff went to see Proof (we’d both separately won two tickets to the latter, but I […]
Well, if the driver this morning whose car was sporting said bumpersticker is any indication, Jesus would enter a major thoroughfare from the parking lot of a 7-11, causing the oncoming driver to have to slam on his brakes, yet immediately turn at the very next intersection anyway. Without signaling. Or, from the color and […]
On Saturday, October 1, Jeff and I will be walking in AIDS Walk Washington, a 5K walkathon benefiting Whitman-Walker Clinic, which provides important community-based health care, especially HIV/AIDS services, in the D.C. metropolitan area. The Clinic needs help to keep these services available and to reach everyone who needs them. We are walking with Team […]
After a very stressful morning and an only slightly less stressful day at work, last night we went to a pleasantly relaxing preview screening at Potomac Yards of Just Like Heaven, a cute new romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and the endearingly-sexy-in-a-“normal guy”-though-not-classically-handsome-or-pop-idol-model-way, not to mention nicely furred Mark Ruffalo and set–and filmed–in San Francisco. […]
At last night’s Duncan Sheik concert, as Jeff and I were sitting together in the bar/bandstand later in the evening after having (at least initially) talked about the issue that was troubling me, a young man walked over and asked if he could ask us a question. We said sure, though admittedly there was a […]
Last night, Jeff and I went to the Birchmere, a great music venue in Alexandria not far from us, to see Duncan Sheik and opening act David Poe. Overall, it was a great concert, though I have to confess that about halfway through I got upset and angry over a personal issue over which I […]
Two years after my father’s death and sometimes I go for days or even weeks without consciously thinking about it, and then all of a sudden I’ll be blindsided by a wave of fresh grief and the recognition of how much I miss him, welling up with tears in the middle of a crowded room, […]
Sunday night, Jeff noted that he was having a hankering for Mexican food; I didn’t really want to get showered and dressed for a sit-down restaurant dinner, so we decided to look into delivery or take-away. We had a small menu for Baja Fresh, which doesn’t deliver but does offer call-ahead ordering for pick-up. I […]
Speaking of Craig, he has season tickets to the DC Nationals, and has offered us use of his seats next week, so next Tuesday Jeff and I will attend our first DC Nationals game.
Last night, we got together over dessert with my dear friend Craig, whom I hadn’t seen in months, his new girlfriend and his young son. Craig has custody of his son only a few days each month and a few weeks each summer, so I’d never before gotten to see the boy in person. A […]