We’re famous, kind of. My buddy was watching the Fox show Lie to Me a couple of days ago, which stars Tim Roth as a DC-based psychologist who can tell when people are lying. There was a mention of Columbia Heights at the beginning of the episode called “Veronica,” when a woman gets hit by a…

Are you a whiskey fan? Get yourself to Room 11 tonight, which is hosting a happy hour from 5-7 pm with the proprietor and distiller of High West Distillery, a small distillery in Park City, Utah (which apparently you can ski into). I’ve had some High West stuff before at Room 11 and it’s pretty…

Be careful out there: last Wednesday night two people were hit by vehicles; one was a Metro bus, another a taxicab. The bus incident was at 16th and Spring Place NW at 10 pm, a block south of Spring Road. The bus didn’t have any passengers, and Metro reports that the man ran in front…

Lately I’ve spotted a series of wheat-pasted pictures on electrical boxes, lamp posts, and such around the neighborhood: various pictures of people, plus the addition of some QR codes, the funny looking patterns, which are similar to UPC codes. A lot of smart phones have apps where you can scan them and it goes to…