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Beignets at Cafe du Monde

December 25, 2010

Eating some beignets at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans’ French Market district is one of those things you really just have to do when in this town. It’s not too much of a chore.  Who could say no to delicious little sugary fried treats that only cost a few dollars?  I certainly couldn’t. During [...]

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Merry Christmas from New Orleans

December 25, 2010

I’m currently in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Merry Christmas from the Big Easy.  It’s a really cool town and I will write more about it soon.  But my laptop is currently out of action because the charger was shorted out by the dodgy electricals in the hostel.  Not to mention that my house in DC was [...]

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Baby, it’s cold outside.

December 17, 2010

Corner of Monroe and 14th NW… just down the road from me. Today DC got its first real snow of the season… my yard was covered with about two inches of the white stuff.  We’ve had flurries already, especially at night, but this time it actually accumulated a bit… which is exciting for me, as [...]

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IHOP- Things that make you go, hmm??

December 13, 2010

An IHOP (International House of Pancakes) opened in my DC neighbourhood of Columbia Heights, and I decided I’d better go and have an American Cultural Experience by eating there.  It was pretty exciting.  I had to wait for a table, so I got a card instructing me that they would call “Mo’Nique” when my table [...]

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Down and out in DC

December 13, 2010

A homeless man asleep on the pavement on K St, or lobbyists row, where the powerful have the offices from where they campaign on the Hill.  DC has many social problems such as poverty.  If you go downtown on the weekend, the city’s parks are full of homeless people.  They can’t sleep in the National [...]

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Famous New York City Foodstuffs

December 8, 2010

Everything bagel with scallion (spring onion) cream cheese.  Bagels are amazing. Pastrami ruben with pickle.  Yes, that is a lot of meat on a sandwich.  I only managed to eat half of it.  Oh, America. Jumbo slice pizza… not as good as dad’s. I got the mozzarella one and it didn’t have tomato base, so [...]

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NYC Barbershop

December 6, 2010

This barbershop group were singing up a storm outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.  They were pretty great and a lot of people started gathering on the steps to watch. The singers were very expressive, and warmed up my mood after I had been wandering around the city being assaulted by the wintry [...]

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If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere

December 6, 2010

Times Square, New York City.  Full of tourists.  Full of people trying to get the tourists to come and see their off-Broadway show, even though the tourists mostly want to buy discount tickets to see Wicked or West Side Story and have limited interest in shows without lovable, familiar, catchy tunes.  Full of people selling [...]

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DC’s Moody Metro Stations

November 29, 2010

One of the first things I noticed about DC when I arrived here were the cool metro stations.  Brutal concrete structures, they have so many repeated patterns that any photog’s eyes are immediately pulled to them.  They are pretty dark though, making it hard to get a clear shot without a tripod, but they are [...]

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The Lincoln Memorial

November 22, 2010

It took me a while, but I finally got down to the Westernmost end of the National Mall this weekend to visit the Lincoln Memorial. And what a lovely sunny Fall day it was to go see it. From the Lincoln Memorial, you also get a fantastic view of the rest of the mall, including [...]

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Georgetown

November 21, 2010

It is generally accepted by all the middle class people I know that Georgetown is full of charming historic buildings and beautifully manicured streets, lovely restaurants, bars and cafes that we can’t really afford, yuppie chain stores, a good sprinkling of DC tourists… and pretentious wankers.  Lots and lots of people with collarpopped Ralph Lauren [...]

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Down by the old Potomac

November 21, 2010

Down on the banks of the Potomac River in DC’s Georgetown neighbourhood.  The river divides the District of Columbia from Virginia… so across the river is a different state.  Some of the DC landmarks along the river include the Lincoln Center and Georgetown University.  The river has been in songs, poems… and the “old Potomac [...]

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Sunset at school

November 21, 2010

The sun sets early now. On Friday, around 5pm, I had just finished another day in my dark, basement office in the depths of the campus biology building and was walking down toward the AU School of International Service (the school I attend) and I realized the sky was looking REALLY darn gorgeous. Lucky I [...]

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Night wandering… from spooky to spiritual

November 21, 2010

Walking along a dark street in the Northwest, near the American University Campus The National Cathedral Notice the full moon?  (not super sharp sorry, I didn’t have a tripod on me) Visiting hours were over, but there was a door open so I snuck inside.  The choir was practicing right up the front, and the [...]

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The McRib is Back

November 12, 2010

Remember that The Simpsons episode where Homer joins this group who follow the movement of the Rib-Wich, a special limited time sandwich at Krusty Burger, across the country, like some kind of rock band groupie? I thought that episode was hilarious. Then, I got to America and found out IT IS ACTUALLY BASED ON SOMETHING [...]

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